Andy : August 2009 Archives

Twitter messages from the @OCLC account between Friday, August 21 and Thursday, August 27 2009.

• Clive Thompson on the New Literacy (Wired)
  
• Google Docs now supports translation of online documents in 42 languages (Google Blogs)
  
• RT @MerrileeIAm -- Turning "labeling archives" into a game at Dartmouth College:
  
• OCLC and RDA: Beyond the record (Metalogue)
  
• RT @geekthelibrary Do you geek your local librarians? Nominate them!
  
• OCLC announces agreements in Europe to extend coverage in WorldCat
  
• Google makes 1 million+ public domain books available in Open EPUB format
  
• Sony Comes After Kindle with a Wireless, Touch-Screen Device (NYTimes.com)
  
• Flat World Knowledge offers free textbooks on the Web, charges fees for print versions and extras (Ars Technica)
  
• Register for the OCLC Digital Forum West by Friday, August 28, for $20 early bird discount.
  
• OCLC Distinguished Seminar Series: Helene Blowers to present on the future of libraries. Oct 9, Dublin OH.
  
• Gates Foundation presents "Access to Learning" award to Colombian org for innovative use of tech in libraries
  
• Wikipedia to impose a layer of editorial review on articles about living people (NYTimes.com)
  
• Barnes & Noble Gets Aggressive in the E-Book Wars (Fast Company)
  
• OCLC names participants for 2010 Jay Jordan IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellowship Program
  
• Twitter API Adds Location Data
  
• AtYourLibrary.org 7-part interview w/ Cory Doctorow on librarianship, media, copyright, gaming
  
• Back to School: Apps Every College Student Should Try (ReadWriteWeb)
  
• VALAtech Boot Camp OCLC API Mashathon 8 Feb. Preconf event for VALA2010 in Melbourne, Australia  #vala2010
• Back to school with Wolfram|Alpha -- Chemistry 101
  
• Rural broadband = more jobs, better salaries(Ars Technica on Dept. of Ag. study) 

In addition to being a blogger here, I'm also one of the team members who posts tweets to OCLC's Twitter account. If you'd like to follow us, we're @OCLC (not surprisingly).

Despite Twitter's growing popularity, though, some people prefer to get their online news in other formats, of course, including blogs. Since some of the links we post from Twitter might be interesting to readers of the WorldCat Blog, we thought we would try copying them from there to here once a week. If folks think it's useful, we'll keep doing it.

OCLC Tweets from August 14 - August 20, 2009 (in reverse chronological order; most recent to least).

• Give a thumbs-up for libraries to be at SXSW. "Deep Web" panel to explore what doesn't appear in search results and why
  
• Nancy Pearl on NPR: Mysteries You Might Have Missed. Related: WC list of Edgar Award Winners
  
• Going to IFLA? Register for OCLC's "Industry Symposium: The Future of Management Services on the Web"
  
• OpenSearch added to VIAF (Outgoing)
  
• The Making of the NPR News iPhone App (via O'Reilly Radar)
  
• RT @archivesopen National Geographic Set to Open Up Its Image Archive (ResourceShelf)
  
• FCC launches "Blogband" to blog about the US National Broadband Plan
  
• BnF (Nat Lib France) does digitization deal with Google (from RT @Personanondata @echildress)
  
•  iPhone now the most popular camera on Flickr (Wired)
  
• Create custom reference books from selected Wikipedia articles
  
• Wikipedia Releases an Official iPhone Application (Lifehacker)
  
• RT @LorcanD 'A voyage around the world' Cambridge University Library Darwin exhibition.
  
• OCLC's Andrew Pace on "Web Scale Management Services" (streaming video & powerpoint)
  
• How to Use Facebook: 5 Tips For Better Social Networking (ReadWriteWeb)
  
• Register for next Wed (8/26) 1 hour OCLC Research webinar: Library a la Carte
  
• Bits of Destruction Hit the Book Publishing Business: Part 4 (ReadWriteWeb)
  
• WorldCat.org adds search for a library feature: WC Blog entry.
  
• NetLibrary catalog reaches 200,000-title milestone (OCLC Abstracts)
  
• English Wikipedia hits three million articles (guardian.co.uk)
  
• Should Consumers Fear The Internet of Things? (ReadWriteWeb)
  
• The Unquiet Librarian geeks inspiration. #geekthelibrary
  
• Digital Textbooks in CA (NPR/audio)
  
• PARC on changing editor resistance in and slowing growth of Wikipedia
  
• 10 OCLC presentations from ALA Annual now online
  
• College Textbooks Hit iPhone (PC World)