• How the W3C Has Come To Love Library Linked Data: http://t.co/kCWEkl9 via @AddThis 2011-09-05
• At #solo11 #li (@ British Library w/ 6 others) http://t.co/Ie5xqL9 2011-09-02

• Study: Night owls may benefit from evening strength – CNN.com
  “That may be because evening people show increased motor cortex and spinal cord excitability in the evening, about 9 p.m., meaning they had maximal central nervous system drive at that time, Lagerquist said.”
  (tags: zeo sleep)
• albawaba.com middle east news information::Renowned Professor Discusses WCMC-Q Students’ Involvement in Breakthrough Sleep Study
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  (tags: zeo)

• Sakai Pilot News Blog » Sakai Pilot Final Report available
  link to .pdf of final report
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• Stitching science together : Article : Nature
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  Article on innovation, culminating on the launch of Illumin8.

  (tags: illumin8 elsevier netbase innovation search)

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  “Motricity plans to eliminate 250 of the 350 jobs in its offices at the American Tobacco Complex in downtown Durham over the next nine months, the company said in a statement.”

  (tags: motricity durham cellphones)

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  “Some of the largest book publishers in the world are stripping away the anticopying software on digital downloads of audio books.The New York Times”

  (tags: ebooks drm publishing)

• Pearson shares drop on US concern – Times Online

  (tags: pearson harcourt publishing)

• Social Graph API – Google Code

  XFN, FOAF – “With the Social Graph API, developers can now utilize public connections their users have already created in other web services. It makes information about public connections between people easily available and useful.”

  (tags: xfn foaf api social_networks socialnetworks socialgraph)

• What font says ‘Change’? – The Boston Globe

  “TYPOGRAPHY CAN subtly or boldly define a company, product, or person… The logos of the presidential candidates are no exception.”

  (tags: branding design politics)

• shimenawa – Print on Demand and Digitization

  (tags: printondemand digitization libraries)

• ALA06 _PressAnnouncement_FINAL.pdf (application/pdf Object)

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• Mass Digital Publications – Digital Innovations @ Emory Libraries

  (tags: print libraries academiclibraries)

• AxsJAX Brings Accessibility Features to Web 2.0 | Compiler from Wired.com

  This will make it a lot easier for government websites, library sites, etc. to improve the usability on their sites. One less excuse…

  (tags: usability ajax accessibility google)

I have an article out in the Fall edition of Library Journal’s quarterly Internet supplement netConnect (about the Internet, published in print)!

Managing Your Identity Online – 10/15/2007 – netConnect – The article is about online identity and claimID with a sidebar on OpenID. The article breaks down into the following sections (brief excerpts are provided).

• Introduction to claimID and online identity
  

  A new breed of web services have started providing ordinary web users with the tools they need to take back control of their online identity.

• Permanent information online
  

  However, with the rising popularity of blogging and the explosion of social networking sites such as Friendster and MySpace, googling potential employees quickly became commonplace. Stutzman and Russell recognized that, while particular services such as MySpace may come and go (see “My Space or Your Space,” LJ netConnect, Fall 2006. p. 8–12), social web services are here to stay. More important, a whole generation is destined to scatter personal and professional information around the web for the rest of their lives.

• Who are you?
  

  If your name is John Smith and someone googles you, it’s not unlikely that the googler can mistakenly think certain information discovered (divorce, etc.) is yours. Wouldn’t it be helpful if there were a method to explain which John Smith you are?

• Taking control
  

  In the claimID FAQ, Stutzman and Russell explain that they embraced “simplicity and standards” when designing the concept. The common thread connecting all the online identity signifiers together is that they all have a web address. Consequently, they decided the simplest way to manage an online identity was by enabling users to create a list of web addresses related to their identity.

• Standards for identity
  

  Once Stutzman and Russell had enabled users to create and sort an annotated list of web sites related to their identity, they turned to emerging identity standards to add additional value to the list. They first implemented MicroID, an open standard that provides a way to verify that the person who owns a claimID profile also “owns” the content to which they are linking.

• Authority control
  

  In Web 2.0 applications, a centralized cataloging system can break down because of the sheer quantity of user-generated content. This has led to collecting user-generated tags instead of subject headings. Similarly, claimID’s methods hint at future decentralized systems for authority records.

• Using OpenID on the Web (sidebar)
  

  The OpenID standard makes it possible for a user with a claimID profile to use this identity elsewhere on the web. OpenID is a decentralized URL-based identity system that allows users to log into web sites with a URL instead of a username or email.

When you get a chance please check out the article and shoot me your questions and/or feedback. I would also like to thank the founders of claimID, Fred Stutzman and Terrell Russell for taking the time to answer my questions and to Jay Datema for the opportunity to write the article.

• Loose Cannon Librarian » printed with permission…

  About Danbury and LibraryThing for Libraries, from the post – “I wrote a sidebar to John Blyberg’s must-read article on open APIs (go, now, read it)… I asked for and received permission to post the unedited version here:”

  (tags: librarything danbury opacs OPAC tagging Folksonomies library2.0)