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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-07

By jts | Published: March 7, 2010

#Bibapp demo this afternoon for the Executive Vice Chancellor . May the Force be with us #
RT @timoreilly: Decent analysis of the financial issues facing publishers: Math of Publishing Meets the #ebook http://nyti.ms/cyNxYW #

By jts | Published: February 28, 2010

Just started using #virtualbox and #OpenSolaris on my Vista machine – at least until I get a Mac. Should have done this along time ago. #
Still in Asheville until tomorrow. Sure weren't expecting cold, blustery days when we planned that. We'll brave it for breakfast though #
If you're a library geek and weren't at #c4l10 then you missed out. C'mon already! #code4lib #
#c4l10 Paul Jones: "This talk will be of particular interest to zombies" #
#c4l10 @cbeer and WGBH doing cool stuff with media archives, Fedora, Blacklight #
#c4l10 "We're traversing up and down the FRBR trees" Extensible Catalog, Metadata Services Toolkit #
Cool cross-vocabulary mapping tool Hive http://bit.ly/ak7gdv http://bit.ly/c724RW Vocab translaxn to SKOS. More web services to come #c4l10 #
Thanks to #c4l10 I can drop "Levenshtein Edit Distance" at parties now #
RT @katelynch: really great presentation structure in Karen Coombs #OCLC presentation at #c4l10 — problem/solution format clear and concise #
#c4l10 @bpisciot You'd like this: 7 Easy Ways to Improve Library UIs with OCLC Web Services – Karen Coombs. #
#c4l10 @bpisciotta You'd like this: 7 Easy Ways to Improve Library UIs with OCLC Web Services – Karen Coombs. #
#c4l10 Kansas loves her some Facebook. via Census2000, Google Fusion Tables, Rosalyn Metz, and Michael Klein #
#c4l10 "When people file things, it's kind of like throwing it in the garbage when you can't bear to throw it in the garbage." @ccmarshall #

By jts | Published: February 21, 2010

Sugar-Based Plastic Can Be Tossed in the Compost Alongside Banana Peels: It's not yet the norm here in the States,… http://bit.ly/bcVKRj #
Sugar-Based Plastic Can Be Tossed in the Compost Alongside Banana Peels: It's not yet the norm here in the States,… http://bit.ly/cJQ7We #
This is the stuff I dream about RT @infopeep: Schneider, Jodi: How metadata could pay for newspapers http://bit.ly/agylZ5 #
RDA Adds Complexity to MARC: A colleague recently brought to my attention the work to adjust MARC to accommodate u… http://bit.ly/cwhoVr #
The Hidden Art of Achieving Creative Flow: Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Everett Bogue, author of The A… http://bit.ly/aoMNZf #
Big Pharma in your iPhone and Nintendo: From The Independant: Medicines not working? There’s an app for that
(Is a… http://bit.ly/bSdfbb #

By jts | Published: February 14, 2010

Sabir community news + internationalxn. Builds on #drupal7 Community health partner in project submittal. Cool
http://bit.ly/bQ7Pj0 #
checking out Gist "Know more about who you know" http://bit.ly/aEknOs Cool concept and great UI. So far, more interesting than LinkedIn #
listening to preview of new @itspetergabriel album Scratch My Back http://bit.ly/agtHGB #
Infographic of the Day: Your Computer Use, Visualized Like a Jackson Pollock: You spend all day clicking a mouse. … http://bit.ly/aCDo1w #

By jts | Published: February 7, 2010

Listen, talk, breathe:
Linda Stone, coiner of the marvelous phrase continuous partial attention, has lately been … http://bit.ly/d3NcsT #
*finally* switched my #wordpress theme to Thematic. Hoping lower cringe-factor will make me post more. #
RT @MrDys: RT @lljohnston: V&A just launched a crowdsourcing app to search its collections: http://collections.vam.ac.uk/crowdsourcing/ #
Appnovation Technologies: Above or Below the Fold of a web page?: Tue, Feb 2, 2010 by Erico NascimentoDesigning fo… http://bit.ly/aD3d5U #
Should all bad research be retracted? We need better tools. "Medical journal retracts study linking autism to vaccine" http://bit.ly/bamIXR #
Ubiquity Alternatives Offer Power Users Command-Line Tools for the Web: Shared by Jason
Need to try Quix
Those … http://bit.ly/dAVmIX #
Foursquare and Libraries – Anything There?: Shared by Jason
#Libraries + Foursquare. Good ideas, @davidleeking
… http://bit.ly/aLlrfL #
Weave 1.0 Released, Firefox Officially Gets Syncing: It’s official, your Firefox syncing prayers have been answere… http://bit.ly/9aDxp3 #
PubChem, CouchDB and data pipelines: Rich Apodaca has a great set of blog posts on using PubCouch, the CouchDB int… http://bit.ly/cTCNlk #