France. Bibliothèque_numérique. Dictionnaire. Twitter. Ereader. Deresiewicz. Mediawiki. Friendfeed. Slashfacet. Yahoo Brands Flickr; Users Retaliate. It appears that a few days ago there was a slight change to Flickr’s logo: an addition of a small Yahoo logo to the right side so it reads “Flickr from Yahoo.” In response, many Flickr users have taken to the photo-sharing site’s forums to express their horror at Yahoo’s branding on Flickr. The underlying fact is that Flickr users, many of whom are techy hipsters, just don’t mix well with “middle America Yahoo” as Bartz put it a few days ago at the unveiling of Yahoo’s $100 million marketing campaign about “Y!
Ou.” Bartz said to a roomful of journalists and bloggers: “When you get outside New York and Silicon Valley, everyone loves Yahoo. Yahoo also got into a bit of a sticky situation with users when it removed a photoshopped image posted on Flickr of President Barack Obama that makes him look like the Heath Ledger (Joker) character from The Dark Knight. And here’s something for laughs—a funny mockup from a community member: Mathieu Valette. The death of the URL | FactoryCity. Prelude You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. Remember — all I am offering is the truth, nothing more. In the Matrix, Morpheus presents Neo with a choice: he can take the blue pill and continue his somnambulatory existence within the Matrix, or he can take the red pill and become free from the virtual reality that the machines created to enslave humanity.
As you can see from the clip above, Neo chooses the red pill, severing his connection to the Matrix and regaining his free will. Everyday, when you fire up your browser and type in some arbitrary URL in the browser’s address bar, you are taking the red pill. Increasingly though, I see signs that the essential freedoms of the web are being undermined by a cadre of companies through the introduction of new technologies and interfaces that, combined, may spell the death of the URL.
Tumblr, RMagick and a Photo Frame! By Ilya Grigorik on June 08, 2008 Over the course of the past year or so, I got myself into a habit of using Tumblr for storing insightful snippets and quotes from my daily endeavours on the internet. Usually, this entails saving a paragraph (too long for tweet, and not enough for del.icio.us) so I can revisit it later. However, having Tumblr to save the quotes is nice, but I rarely (if ever) went back to read them. Pondering this dilemma, I spotted my Phillips digital photo frame, and a quick weekend project was born: Tumblr API, RMagick to render the images, and an SD card full of wisdom and quotes for easy consumption! Retrieving quotes from Tumblr API Retrieving your content from Tumblr is about as easy as it can get: one GET request, with a few query parameters. Require 'open-uri'require 'hpricot'require 'cgi' # read last 5 quotesdoc = Hpricot.XML(open(" Rendering wisdom with RMagick Once the data is cleaned up, we can get to the rendering step.
Librophiliac Love Letter: A Compendium of Beautiful Libraries | Facebook et la mort - Innovation Web - Réseaux sociaux. Save a Bookmark on Delicious. What You Can Do. Overview How to Preserve Your Own Digital Materials NDIIPP publication: "Perspectives on Personal Digital Archiving" (2013) This publication contains a series of blog posts, compiled from The Signal, on the subject of personal digital archiving. Specifically, the topics include guidance for such things as choosing file formats and adding descriptions to digital photos; first hand accounts of working with and preserving personal collections; descriptions of outreach activities and interviews with library professionals on the subject of personal digital archiving, and many others.
Link to the full publication (PDF). Personal Digital Archiving Day Kit The Library of Congress has held Personal Digital Archiving Day events to provide this basic guidance to individuals about preserving personal and family memories in digital form. Are you interested in hosting your own personal digital archiving event? Learn More Take the quiz Learn interesting facts!
Got a question? AllMyApps, installer tous ses logiciels d'un coup. Subscribing to feeds (The Chromium Projects) Table of contents DiscoveryPreviewSubscriptionAdding feed readersPodcastsTasks to implement Discovery We will autodetect RSS and Atom feeds using the standard autodiscovery tags: When a feed is available for a page, we will display an rss icon in the address bar: Clicking on the feed icon will redirect the user to feed, nicely formatted for the browser. We should also consider whether we want to detect feed links in the content of the page (for pages without auto-discovery). Preview When the user follows a link to a feed file, Chrome formats it for display in the browser: Caveat: parsing feeds can be tricky, so in the interest of shipping this quickly, the initial implementation will likely not include a preview of the content. If the feed is malformed, we would display an error instead of the feed contents (rather than including a lot of unnecessary feed parsing code).
If the feed specifies custom formatting (such as Feedburner's BrowserFriendly), we could use that formatting instead. Blog-It Express, le micro-blogging facile pour tous. L'imaginaire réformateur - PISA et les politiques de l’écol. On n'a pas prêté assez d'attention au rôle des comparaisons internationales dans l'élaboration des pratiques d'éducation en France.
Elle est grande et elle n'est pas toujours bien fondée. L'enquête PISA, qui propose un programme international d'évaluation des acquis des élèves, en apporte l'illustration. Cette enquête a pris au fil des années une importance croissante, au point de modifier la philosophie des politiques d’enseignement au niveau mondial. Une belle réussite, à ce ci près qu'elle a été obtenue en étant dévoyée de ses objectifs de départ.
L’enquête sert d’instrument politique aux mains des experts et technocrates qui influencent directement sa conception et son traitement. Les classements des systèmes éducatifs et leur interprétation orientent de manière normative les politiques scolaires nationales. Le mécanisme est facile à comprendre. Fortes de l'autorité de l'expertise internationale, ces tendances ont tendu à décourager une utilisation réfléchie des résultats de PISA. YouTomb. RSS Reader - PHP script for displaying an RSS feed on a web page. How to display an RSS feed with a single PHP function? The URL of the file may be - local, in the form: rss.xml, or - distant in the form: There is only one difference, if the filename has the ".php" extension when it is generated by a CMS or such software, locally the file is processed by the server as a text file while remotely it is processed as a script.
There is no difference if the extension is ".xml". The script is compatible with: - RSS 2.0 (that is compatible with 0.91, 0.92 etc.) - RSS RDF or RSS 1.0. Actually the script extracts the title, link and description tags and ignores the format of structure of the document. The benefit of PHP to display an RSS feed is that it will be visible by search engines.
Structure of an RSS 2.0 file A feed is made of a channel, and one or more items correspondint to articles. <rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Scriptol RSS<title><link> Tools and documents for RSS. Why Don't You Love Flock? A few days ago, the social web browser Flock released version 2.5 of their software, integrating Facebook Chat, improving Twitter functionality, and adding a new broadcasting feature called "Flockcast. " As we evaluated the upgrade, a thought occurred to us: this browser should be the epitome of everything we love about the social web and yet the company has seen only moderate success. Flock has been downloaded 7.5 million times but has just 1.1 million active users. (Compare that to Firefox's 270 million). Is Flock doing something wrong here? Or is the product just too niche to ever see mainstream success?
New in Flock 2.5 In the latest version of the Flock browser, they've integrated Facebook Chat for instant messaging. Twitter integration in the new version of Flock has also been improved, now providing access to trending topics and allowing you to save search histories. So, What's Wrong? On paper, Flock seems like it should be the browser of our dreams. So what's wrong with Flock? ¶Polylogue. À lire de près, Livres de papier, journal des réfractaires à l’ordre numérique, ramené par ma modératrice du salon du livre, où je n’ai pas même eu le temps de passer. Des idées, des arguments, souvent bons, parfois drôles, parfois encore moins bons et moins drôles. Bref, un vrai gros bon pamphlet, en 12 pages touffues et soignées, format diplo. Très très contre l’imposition d’un ordre numérique, mais au-delà de ça contre tout ce qui bipe et clignote, bref bien luddiste. Moi ça ne me gène pas, au contraire :-) Mon bémol : c’est apparemment la mode un peu partout de parler maintenant des dangers de l’ibook.
Hum. Bref, ici, le tour d’horizon est globalement assez juste, même s’il y manque la critique symétrique du monde (devrait-on dire de l’économie) du papier qui va de l’édition aux « libraires », et une exploration un peu plus nuancée de la création/diffusion numérique. The Boom of Social Sites | Other | Focus.com. Phil Bradley's weblog: Alternatives to Ning. As you're probably aware, Ning is closing its doors to its free service, and people will have to either migrate their groups elsewhere or start paying.
Before looking at that, let's get the important stuff out of the way - what are the alternatives? I've found a few that you might want to consider taking a look at. I should say that I don't use these myself, so they're not personal recommendations. Basic is free, advertising driven. Limited functionality, but appears to have no less than Ning. Limited to 25 named users. Free, commercial version available Basic, but seems to do the trick Offering themselves as a Ning alternative. Not tried this, so limited knowledge of it This looks easy and straightforward to create a group Also setting itself up as a Ning migration site. It’s Official: Google Now Counts Site Speed As A Ranking Factor. Protopage - Free RSS News Reader and Start Page.
RDF: Simpler if you look at it in a different way - KnowledgeBoa. Drupal Done Right - 11/15/2009 - Library Journal. Web 2.0 et bibliothèques : une contribution « Bertrand Calenge : Appelé il y a plusieurs mois à rédiger une conclusion prospective à un ouvrage du Cercle de la Librairie consacré à "Web 2.0. et bibliothèques", j’ai assisté – et parfois participé – à un débat entre les auteurs pressentis, concernant le statut juridique des différents articles : Creative commons ou non ? Je ne m’étendrai pas sur ces débats houleux, mais noterai que les auteurs survivants se sont vu octroyer dans leur contrat d’édition un article complémentaire et inédit , stipulant que leur contribution pouvait être publiée séparément sous forme électronique "à condition qu’il n’y ait pas de commercialisation, que l’ensemble des textes ne soit pas réuni sur un même site et que chaque texte renvoie à l’ouvrage dont il est une partie".
Avec ce billet – un peu long je vous l’accorde, car l’imprimé est plus bavard que l’écriture ‘webienne’ – je vous propose ces quelques lignes de contribution à un ouvrage à ne pas rater, "Le Web 2.0 en bibliothèques : quels services ? Quels usages ? " Paralipomènes. The humanities and the REF by Stefan Collini - TLS. :: S.I.Lex ::