http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/idealab A forum for staff of the Newman Library to share information and exchange ideas pertaining to library and information science. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:20:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A Gartner press release has been issued for their October report “Dataquest Insight: The Top Ten Consumer Mobile Applications for 2012."  We don't have access to the full Gartner report, so this press release gives us a bit more information. Observing this report, the Gartner Hype Cycles for consumer mobile applications and maybe even simply the ... http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/idealab/2009/11/20/gartner-releases-top-10-consumer-mobile-applications-for-2012/ It's not scholarly but this blog post on the history of the internet is full of fun images and links. Chapman, Cameron. "The History of the Internet in a Nutshell." Six Revisions, 15 November 2009. Web. http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/idealab/2009/11/20/thumbnail-history-of-the-internet/ Attendees Stephen Francoeur, Ellen Kaufman, Louise Klusek, Jin Ma, Kannen Mohan, Ryan Phillips and Michael Waldman Searching Blogs Went over a patron request for finding quotes on blogs. The patron wanted to locate negative quotes about the Marvel acquisition by Disney. Discussed the resources for searching blogs: Factiva, Google Blog Search, LexisNexis and Twitter Search. Baruch Blogs    Noted how to ... http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/idealab/2009/11/20/tech-sharecase-13-november-2009/ It's worth subscribing to the LIBRARY News feed from the CUNY Office of Library Services, if only to pick up interesting tidbits like this: The goals for the 2009-2010 academic year are to: • work with Computer Information Systems to ensure a reliable back-up for all CUNY library systems in the event ... http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/idealab/2009/11/13/2009-2010-goals-for-cuny-office-of-library-services/ Attendees Arthur Downing, Stephen Francoeur, Joseph Hartnett, Randy Hensley, Ellen Kaufman, Louise Klusek, Ryan Phillips Google Discover Music Talked about new Google Discover Music service in which search results are more socially based and about October 23, 2009, radio story from On the Media, "Charting the Charts," which noted how Billboard is waning in ... http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/idealab/2009/11/12/tech-sharecase-30-october-2009/ Here is a short BBC News article that may be of interest. "He (Murdoch) believes that search engines cannot legally use headlines and paragraphs of news stories as search results." http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/idealab/2009/11/09/murdoch-may-block-google-searches/ Technology, Policy, Law and Ethics Regarding U.S. Acquisition and Use of Cyberattack Capabilities. (National Academies Press, 2009) You can read it online at the NAP site, or listen to the podcast. Scroll down for the full-text listed by chapters or for the podcast link. This may be of interest to students ... http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/idealab/2009/11/03/us-cyberattack-capabilities-book/ Google. Discover Music Google just unveiled a landing page called Discover Music specifically designed for searching music. Google has partnered social media services like Imeem, LaLa, Myspace, Rhapsody, Pandora and music companies/label owners such as EMI, Sony Music, Universal and Warner Brothers to customize search results and provide music content. Users can search ... http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/idealab/2009/10/30/google-discover-music-social-search/ An unvetted, unofficial, but understandable basic introduction to QR codes (if you don't mind the accent). Ciao Baby! http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/idealab/2009/10/30/qr-codes-and-mobile-phones-video/ On the Talking with Talis podcast, host Paul Miller recently spoke with Diane Mueller about XBRL and the semantic web. Listen to the recording (mp3) and check out the show notes. http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/idealab/2009/10/30/discussion-of-xbrl-and-the-semantic-web/