InkNoise Personal Publishing has an experimental Web-based Layout-o-matic for generating CSS for four different types of layouts. The List-o-matic tool from Accessify.com generates a list of links from user-supplied titles and URLs. You can specify from 1 to 20 items in your list and produce some nice looking basic styles of lists.
Kodak, founded by George Eastman, and the company that promoted its camera line with the famous slogan “You press the button, we do the rest” — this was in the days before 1-hour photo processors — is going digital. Here’s my new slogan for Kodak, You press the button, you do the rest. Source: Various [...]
“Estates’ rights in Canadian copyright re-examined: MP seeks to strike controversial ‘Lucy Maud Montgomery provision’” by James Adams ran in the Globe and Mail on Sepember 23, 2003.
This is old news to those in the genetic research community, but Sockeye 1.0, a 3D genome visualization software funded by Genome Canada, was released on August 21, 2003. According to the Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre in Vancouver, BC, “Linux and Windows/DirectX-Java3D versions are offered; each has a bundled Java 1.4.1_01/Java3D 1.3.1b1.”
NoodleTools is a subscription-based software application that generates bibliographies in the MLA and APA-styles. Librarian Debbie Abilock and Damon Abilock (relationship unknown) of San Francisco cofounded NoodleTools. The Web site also features links to various online learning and information literacy resources.
The International Council on Archives (ICA) is pleased to announce the availability of three new electronic publications concerning buildings and equipment for archives storage and preservation on the ICA website: Bibliography of Books, Journal Articles, Conference Papers and Other Printed Sources relating to Archival Buildings and Equipment, June 2003 by Arnold den Teuling and Ted [...]
The Visual Resources Association is pleased to announce that select chapters of the VRA-sponsored project, “Cataloguing Cultural Objects: A Guide to Describing Cultural Objects and their Images“, known as CCO, is now available on the Web. Based on the core data elements found in the VRA Core 3.0 and the CDWA structures, CCO provides guidelines [...]
Martin Prikryl’s WinSCP 3.3, a secure FTP client for Windows that supports SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol) and SCP (Secure Copy Protocol), was released on September 15, 2003.
The National Archives of the United Kingdom, formerly the Public Record Office and Historical Manuscripts Commission, launched its UK Central Government Web Archive in late September 2003. This born-digital archives utilizes the services of the Internet Archives.
British Columbia publishing house Douglas & McIntyre released an unexpurgated edition of artist Emily Carr’s Klee Wyck with an introduction by archivist and author Kathryn Bridge.
MIT’s Technology Review reports on an exciting, innovative use for radio tags: University of Rochester researchers have found a new use for the radio frequency identification tags that manufacturers are aiming to use to track products like cartons of milk and sweaters. … The Rochester team has reversed the standard setup by making the receivers [...]
According to the Amazon Web Services Newsletter no. 4, The Amazon Hacks book (written by Paul Bausch) has been released and is now available for immediate shipment. More information can be found at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596005423 and http://www.oreilly.com/hacks. I’m sure I won’t be the only one to find the cover art on this title objectionable. A machete [...]
Interesting looking data analysis and visualization tool from the Hive Group called Honeycomb. One of the demonstration applications uses products from Amazon.com.
La conf?rence PHP Qu?bec a ouvert la saison 2003 des conf?rences PHP. Durant 2 jours, elle a acceuilli 150 personnes qui sont venues de tout le Canada, ?couter les plus illustres contributeurs ? PHP et les utilisateurs les plus ambitieux. English: The PHP Qu?bec conference opened the 2003 season of PHP conferences. During those two days, 150 visitors from all Canada, came in to listen to the most prestigious actors of PHP, and its most ambitious users. Those were two days of exciting sessions, in a relaxed atmosphere and at the unusual location of the Ecole Polytechnique de Montr?al.
Big numbers bring out big expectations. MIT Technology Review reports that PlanetLab, which started in March 2002, is building a different, more powerful Internet, able to leap tall buildings, oh sorry, wrong story.
A nice looking handbook you can download for free for neophyte community information network planners and builders: Building a Community Information Network: A Guidebook, edited by Richard W. Wiggins.
No more ebooks for sale at Barnes&Noble.com
Moreover Technologies is introducing its own blog scanning service targeted at corporate users seeking a competitive advantage. A free service similar to this is offered by Intelliseek’s Blogpulse.
Ok, that’s an overstatement, but many of the horror stories involving breaches of personal privacy involve banking data on secondhand PCs. Yet we archivists are still struggling with how to preserve every other kind of electronic record worth keeping.
Zap that atom.
Who said the dot com bubble burst?
Harvard’s hosting BloggerCon on October 4 and 5, 2003
IAwiki: FacetedClassification
Renewed efforts are underway in Canada and the USA to crack down on telephone, Internet and eBay fraud.
Another alternative source of information on the Web: The Memory Hole.
You can download a new program from England to help predict the climate.
Teaser article on the bulletin board systems (BBS) that began in the 1970s BM with the microcomputer revolution (Before Microsoft).
This article from MIT’s Technology Review (September 2003) indicates a new type of software called DbSurfer developed in England might be available in year.
Saw this at David Bigwood’s Catalogablog, a blog watching service called Blogarithm.com.
Congratulations to Victoria author and archivist Kathryn Bridge for winning honourable mention in the 2003 VanCity Book Prize for Phyllis Munday: Mountaineer (XYZ Publishing, April 2003).
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