Tracking blog conversations

The Hindu dated 31st july'2006 : J.Murali writes on the heading"Tracking the blog conversations"
An interesting aspect of a blog is its potential to generate active conversations through the `Comments' feature. Besides helping a blogger disseminate her ideas with blog entries, the blog's `Comments' feature provides her an opportunity to engage in an active conversation with the readers. In fact, in many popular blogs the `Comments' section present far richer content, when compared to the original entry. If you go through the 'Comments' section of famous technology blogs such as Slashdot and Digg, you will realise it.

Of course, all the comments relating to a blog entry will not appear in a single day — it is a continuous flow, lasting a few days. However, going back to the blog entry time and again to read the latest comments is impractical, especially when one visits several blogs daily.
As such, we need tools for accomplishing this task automatically. This requirement inspired many web enthusiasts and led to the generation of a crop of services called comment trackers. A few such services are detailed here.
http://www. cocomment.com/is an effective comment-tracking tool
http://www. cocomment.com/is another feature-packed comment monitoring service available in the blogosphere. like wise...Also points out Resume hosting service, Free telephone calls and On-line spell check..Read full article

Are You Ready for ISBN-13?

On January 1, 2007, the book industry will begin using 13 digit ISBNs to identify all books in supply chain.This change is happening for the following reasons:
1. To expand the numbering capacity of the ISBN system and alleviate numbering shortages in certain areas of the world;
2. To fully align the numbering system for books with the global EAN.UCC identification system that is widely used to identify most other consumer goods worldwide.
3. Two new prefixes are being created. The 978 prefix will be added in front of the current ISBN-10 and with the addition of a new check digit at the end
Learn more :http://www.isbn.org/standards/home/isbn/transition.asp

CREATE, EDIT & SHARE spreadsheets online

Zoho Sheet is a web based alternative to traditional spreadsheet applications, like MS Excel or Openoffice Calc. It provides basic spreadsheet functionalities coupled with web based features like sharing, tagging, publishing and more...

Tricks to control spam hitting your inbox

Amit Agarwal gives really cool tricks on preventing spam from hitting your inbox.He suggests to maintain two seperate mail ids one for business and onother one for other things and don't publish your email addres directly on the homepage - use Email Obfuscators. Give fake mail ids to websites which require mandatory registration before to get access.One of the latest techniques to prevent spam is to create disposable e-mail address which stays just active for a pre-defined period and then expires. SpamBox and Mailexpire, that let you create temporary email address which expire after a given time.

Google launches open-source repository

In its latest effort to further the open-source programming movement, Google opened a site Thursday (27th july 2006)where programmers can host their software projects.

By Stephen Shankland
Staff Writer, CNET News.com

Diigo Offers "Social Annotation" Tool

Combining bookmarks with sharing, tagging, annotation and very powerful search tools, Diigo is an appealing, evolutionary step forward in how we find, consume and share information on the web.

To use the service, sign up for a free Diigo account, then download the Diigo toolbar (available for Internet Explorer, Firefox or Flock).

Tips on how to be a good library manager

The Annoyed Librarian thinks library management is an important issue and wish to give some tips to be a good library manager..such as

1. Remember, your employees are not as smart as you. If they were, they'd be managers.
2. Never leave your office. If people have problems, you need to be there for them.
3. Never schedule office appointments. If people have problems, they need to solve the problem themselves.
4. Fix the blame, not the problem.
5. Your subordinates need detailed instructions with every task. Make sure they have them!
and more.....

FUTEF Beta, Searching Wikipedia's Free Encyclopedia

FUTEF is a searching tool for wikipedia's and now available in beta. Currently its working with Wikipedia's free encyclopedia. Wikipedia is an amazing resource of information on a very wide range of topics. The search returns article result on the right and related sub categories on the left, further we can narrow our search by selecting the catergories from the left.Give a try...

LinkScanner, Keep your surfing safe

Linkchecker is a free online service which helps to find if any risk factor involved in visiting a perticular url.Just type in the site URL and LinkChecker would visit the website for you and report back the contents if there's a risk involved.

Free Access to LIS Journals from SAGE until 30th September 2006

http://www.sagepub.com

Wikimapia - Let's describe the whole Earth!

Really wonderfull work..WikiMapia is a project aimed at "describing the whole planet earth". It is an internet resource combining Google Maps and a "wiki" system. The project was created by Alexandre Koriakine and Evgeniy Saveliev on May 24, 2006.

Please see my House at Asia>India> Tamil Nadu>Trichy>Police Colony>My House tagged as (LIG-182-saravanan/Sathish House)

Tutorial on selecting online resources

Internet Detective, a free online tutorial designed to help students develop the critical thinking required for their Internet research, is being launched on the Web on June 13th in the RDN Virtual Training Suite at: http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/detective/
The tutorial offers practical advice on evaluating the quality of websites and highlights the need for care when selecting online information sources to inform university or college work.

Index Translationum

The Index Translationum is a list of books translated in the world, i.e. an international bibliography of translations. The database contains cumulative bibliographical information on books translated and published in about one hundred of the UNESCO Member States since 1979 and totalling more than 1.600,000 entries in all disciplines : literature, social and human sciences, natural and exact sciences, art, history and so forth. It is planned to update the work every four months

Which is best? wiki or blog

Read this article by Bob Doyle to understand the difference between them, which tells Wiki is good for old content: business best practices, policies. Blogs are used more for current news.

Future of libraries

Six trends driving the future of libraries

• People Power
  Video Unlimited
  Personalize It
  Carbon Killers
  Buy It Now
  All Access Economy

Answers to your Questions

Answers.com is an ideal tool for the millions of people who must find and deal with all kinds of information as part of their daily routine, among them: writers, editors, students, educators, marketers, journalists, lawyers, and professionals.

Bibliopage.com

BiblioPage.com is a book finding service. It claims to have a database of approximately 500,000 unique titles. It is an afilliate site of Amazon.com and provide links for our users to purchase titles. The information provided on this site is meant to help anyone who is interested in finding a good book to read.

Gada.be

A metasearch service

Forthcoming dLIST Classics by S. R. Ranganathan

Its great-The Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science (SRELS) has granted the dLIST Classics Project permission to publish online and "provide open electronic access" to eight classic works of the great SR Ranganathan, including the Five Laws of Library Science.
Have a look on Prefatory Matter (Title pages, Table of Contents, Preface by Madras Library Association, Foreword by Sir P.S. Sivaswamy Aiyer, Introduction by Mr. W.C. Berwick Sayers) and the first chapter of Five Laws of Library Science available already.

WikiBios

You don't have to be a famous celebrity to have a life worth documenting. WikiBios, a place where your friends become the storytellers of your life.It gives everyone an equal right to add, edit, and remove text about you except yourself.

World eBook Fair July 4th - Aug 4th

World eBook Fair is sponsored by Project Gutenberg , World eBook Library Consortia , DPP Store , Baen Books , Qoop , Ask.com
To marks a month long celebration of the 35th anniversary of the first step taken towards today's eBooks, when the United States Declaration of Independence was the first file placed online for downloading in what was destined to be an electronic library of the Internet. Today's eBook library has a total of over 100 languages represented.
It Provides
1. Full Full Text Search of 330,000+ PDF eBook Titles in 100+ Languages.
2. No Membership Required for Access to eBooks from 04-07-2006 to 04-08-2006.

Visit http://www.worldebookfair.com/

Move to protect country's traditional knowledge

NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved a proposal to sign an agreement with patent offices across the world to allow patent examiners to access the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) created by the National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources (NISCAIR) on India's traditional medicine systems.
The signing of the pact is expected to benefit the country immensely as it could help prevent scientists abroad from getting patents on various medical remedies that are already known to Ayurveda and other traditional medicine systems of India.
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Electronic Book of the Month

Dynamical Systems by George D. Birkhoff has been selected as the Electronic Book of the Month for July. This title is published by the American Mathematical Society and is freely available on their Web site along with numerous other books. The Electronic Book of the Month Archive has been updated.

Top Five Science Blogs

Weblogs written by scientists are relatively rare, but some of them are proving popular. Out of 46.7 million blogs indexed by the Technorati blog search engine, five scientists' sites make it into the top 3,500. Declan Butler asks the winners about the reasons for their success.
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EBSCO Adding Numerous Full-Text Databases

3rd July' 2006: EBSCO continues to seriously beef up its full text database offerings. At ALA, the vendor announced that it is now marketing a full-text version of MEDLINE, which sports 1200 journals, 1000 of which are available with cover-to-cover indexing, and a total of more than 1.4 million articles dating as far back as 1965 with no embargoed material. The company also has more full-text offerings in the works. By summer's end, Computers & Applied Science Complete (indexing and abstracting for 1300 titles, more than 500 in full text), Education Research Complete (indexing and abstracting for 1500 journals, 750 in full text), and Environment Complete (1200 journals, 400 in full text plus the full text for 80 monographs), all will be complete.
Information via: http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6348619.html

Open Access for Librarians in Developing countries

An artcle by Morrison, Heatherin G in which basics of open access are presented, as a starting point for discussion by librarians in developing countries. Open access is defined; resources for searching are presented, and resources for creating open access archives and publications. Policy development needed for open access is explained, along with what librarians in developing countries can do to promote open access.
Source : E-LIS
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Overdue books attracts arrest warrant

A library patron was arrested in Texas for having overdue books
As a teen, you may grow weary of adults telling you what to do all the time. All the well-meaning advice just gets to be too much after awhile. Do this, don't do that, be careful of those—it just seems sometimes that adults worry too much. But you can't really blame moms and dads for being worrywarts. It can be a dangerous world out there.
For instance, do you know where your library books are? Is there an overdue book lurking in the bottom of your closet or under your bed that has somehow escaped your attention? Don't laugh. That little indiscretion just might be the preamble to a long criminal history.
Just ask Judith Galvan of Baytown, Texas. She was recently pulled over for a small traffic violation when the officer on call did a routine check on her. The lawman was alerted to the fact that there was an outstanding warrant for this woman's arrest. The violation? She was harboring overdue library books.
The arrest warrant shows that she was a repeat offender, as there were apparently not one, but three overdue books in her possession.
Just let this be a warning to all you forgetful teens, during these lazy days of summer as you loll on the beach with your books. Don't get too complacent when it comes to the law. Get those books back to the library on time.

Thomson Scientific Launches Online Learning Resource

Thomson Scientific (http://www.scientific.thomson.com) announced the launch of a Web-based resource for regulatory intelligence training. Called Regulatory Online Learning, it integrates with IDRAC, which provides reference information for the drug development regulatory environment. IDRAC was acquired by Thomson in 2004.

ebrary Announces eBook Ordering Platform

ebrary (http://www.ebrary.com) announced that it has released the ebrary eBook Ordering Platform (eBOP) version 1.0 Beta. The new self-service platform enables librarians to search through ebrary’s perpetual access e-books, recommend titles for acquisition by selectors, and build a custom database of e-books online.

Enhanced SpringerLink Offers eBook Collection

June 26, 2006 — Springer (http://www.springer.com; part of Springer Science+Business Media), which claims to be the world’s largest STM (scientific, technical, medical) book publisher, has announced it will offer its complete publishing program online and on one integrated platform.

Size of a search engine

When we do a search on google or any other web search engine, the total number of results may help us to give a approximate report on its actual size. Perform a simple search for common words (words that are probably found in every text document like "the", "a", "is", "of", "or") and you can roughly compute the size of the entire search index.
Some very interesting statistics about their index sizes:
1. MSN looks like a new born baby. It indexes just 10% of content when compared with Google.
2. Google indexes the largest number of web pages for any of the common words.
3. Yahoo comes second but not close enough.

TutorialFind

TutorialFind is a directory of computing tutorials divided into the following categories: hardware, networking, operating systems, programming, software, and Web design. It provides access to tutorials on other Web sites. TutorialFind can be browsed by category or searched by keywords.

IEEE Computer Society Digital Library Enhancement

The IEEE Computer Society announced a new service enhancement for the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library: citations can now be downloaded quickly to personal bibliography and reference management tools. ASCII text, BibTex, RefWorks, Procite, Endnote, and Reference Manager are now supported.