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Tuesday, June 14, 2005 |
Two main Boycott supporters turns to voting.
Today's reformists meeting in football field of Tehran university was wonderful. It was a bit too long, but it was almost full. Thousands of young men and women, maybe by the average age of 26, 27, had shown up despite the extremely hot weather and the burning sun. But most significant thing happened today was the official announcement by two very popular reformist figures who actually had long boycotted the elections, but now changed their mind and encouraged people to participate and vote. They were Mohsen Kadivar, the outspoken and smart cleric who spent about two your in jail for...
[Editor: Myself (English)]
11:02:51 PM 
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Wes:
Shut up and show us the -- oh wait, OpenSolaris was actually released. Congratulations. CNet found this amusing analyst quote: "The real challenge for Sun is: They have top computer scientists. Will it be possible for someone outside that organization to contribute a patch and not have that patch rewritten by someone more experienced at Sun?" Are we talking about a software project or a self-esteem exercise?
10:58:56 PM
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The Street, in Real Time (Alan Wexelblat).
Want to watch the street find its own uses for things? Start at this story about CVS selling "one time use" digital camcorders. The gist is you buy it, record video on it, preview on a tiny on-camera screen, then bring it back to them and for another fee they'll put your video on DVD. This is a very typical "how people who value control above all else" think business model.
Now go to this page of the I-Appliance BBS to see how fast people dissect this beast.
It's important to remember that no matter who you are - CVS, Microsoft, the Cartel, whoever - most of the smart people in the world don't work for you. It really would be better all around if more people would keep that in mind. [Copyfight]
5:13:13 AM
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Comic Life by plasq.
"easily make comic book pages, or even an entire comic book, using your own images or drawings as panels."
[unmediated]
5:08:46 AM
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Gary Houk on Amazoogle.
I’m in Dublin, Ohio, at the TechConnections conference to give three presentations tomorrow (blogs, RSS, and social bookmark managers), but I arrived just in time today to hear Gary Houk present on the topic of “Connecting Users to Library Services in an Amazoogle World: Trends in Information Discovery and Delivery.” Here are my blognotes:
"10 things Google has found to be true"
5. You don’t need to be at your desk to need an answer.
The Amazoogle user environment:
- For many, it’s the first and last resort of research
- Available at the point of need
- Comprehensive?
- How does it compare to libraries?
. . .
The implications of Google Libraries:
- Potentially covers about one third of print books in WorldCat
- 60% of total Google 5 (the 5 beta libraries) books held by only one of the G5
- Less than 5% held by all of the G5
- 20% of total G5 print books out of copyright
- There’s a paper coming out of their research
"Last Copy"
- 23 million WorldCat records have only a single holding attached
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Need to factor in the habits of these “digital natives” when you’re planning your services and the delivery of them
If you’re spending a lot of money on your portal, is that the best use of your money? Most likely your users aren’t starting at your portal.
[The Shifted Librarian]
Loads of good stuff in the ellipses, too.
5:04:48 AM
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Low profile.
It's not an accident that I haven't posted anything about my return to Tehran in my Persian blog. My Persian and English audience are very different and by doing this I want to keep a low profile for my own safety. So plesae do not write about this in Persian. You are playing with my safety by doing this....
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5:02:10 AM
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