Pull quote: "The report, The Broadband Imperative, recommends schools increase their broadband speeds to 1 Gbps per 1,000 students and staff by 2017-18. Internal WANs connecting schools within districts should be 1 Gbps by 2014-15 and 10 Gbps by 2017-18, said the report, released Monday by the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA)."

Big Data or Too Much Information? | Smithsonian Magazine Innovations section

How Amazon is changing the rules for books and movies | Internet & Media - CNET News

Big Data Troves Stay Forbidden to Social Scientists [under privacy and proprietary concerns] | New York Times

Text mining: what do publishers have against this hi-tech research tool? | The Guardian

After Facebook fails | Doc Searls Weblog

Citizen, State Your Business! [funny red light camera] | There, I Fixed It

50 Years Of Government Spending, In 1 Graph | NPR's Planet Money

Going to the doctor and worrying about cybersecurity | Freedom To Tinker

Google Book Search: Oral Argument Report in HathiTrust | The Laboratorium

The winning case study involved the use of Watson to integrate weather data, census information and a wide array of other sources into an emergency preparedness system. Second place was taken by a project that would create a framework for responsible, efficient exploitation of natural resources such as oil and natural gas, while a travel program built to analyze information about wait times and weather patterns came in third.

Pull quote: "Leading the way for greater disk density will be technologies such as heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR), which Seagate patented in 2006. Seagate has already said it will be able to produce a 60TB 3.5-in. hard drive by 2016. Laptop drives could reach 10TB to 20TB in the same time frame, IHS iSuppli stated."

AWS is better than their competitors because:

They aren't trying to recreate legacy datacenter environments
Build simple, primitive services that are robust and scalable (S3, EC2, SQS), then compose those into higher order services (RDS, EMR)
Their business model is designed to run at cost+ pricing, with a fixed margin such that as they reduce their costs, their pricing also reduces
An engineering culture that has long term (2-3 year) thinking and roadmaps, along with a breadth of work that allows a velocity of feature releases that is hard to match
Focus on simplicity, security, robustness, and scalability over arbitrary feature creep

Pull quote: "Starting Tuesday, special messages will be displayed at the top of a Google search results page to people whose Windows PCs and Macs have been infected with malicious code that hijacks their clicks."

Pull quote: "For all its valuation, the social network is just another ad-supported site. Without an earth-changing idea, it will collapse and take down the Web."

But even as many companies plan their migrations to IPv6 - so far, 1,550 Web sites, 45 ISPs and two home router vendors have committed to World IPv6 Launch Day - they are also purchasing hundreds, thousands, even millions of IPv4 addresses to ensure smooth Internet operations during what's expected to be a decade-long transition from IPv4 to IPv6.

What ProQuest’s Udini Means for Libraries — Library Journal Reviews

Multiple Devices and Platforms: Institutional Strategies

Reviewing spam folder this morning. Found two from my U.S. Senator that Google thinks are spam. Sadly, I agree.

From Cubicles, Cry for Quiet Pierces Office Buzz - New York Times

Facebook: How (NOT) to Price and Trade an IPO. Thoughts from a Capital Markets Veteran [about Facebook] | Forbes

e-Books may take a page out of digital music’s book [on 'lightweight DRM'] | Ars Technica

EPUB Lightweight Content Protection: Use Cases & Requirements | International Digital Publishing Forum

A kinder, gentler [more 'library-friendly'?] DRM? [an effort from the IDPF] | paidContent

Facebook IPO fight-back begins: share price 'implausible', says analyst | Telegraph

McCain and Whitehouse take on Citizens United [in friend-of-the-court brief to SCOTUS] | Politico

Pull quote: " Most students lose about two months of grade level equivalency in mathematical computation skills over the summer months. Low-income students also lose more than two months in reading achievement. And the alarming thing is: that loss is cumulative. More than half of the achievement gap between lower- and higher-income youth can be explained by unequal access to summer learning opportunities. As a result, low-income youth are less likely to graduate from high school or enter college. By middle school, many kids will be hopelessly behind, putting the chance of entering college or even graduating from high school at risk."

Planning to customize your new cloud-based system via the APIs? Proceed carefully | Thoughts from Carl Grant

Georgia State Copyright Case: What You Need To Know—and What It Means for E-Reserves | Library Journal

You could say "this is a service to watch" but that would be missing the point. Yesterday the 'Unglue.It' service launched as a way to crowdsource the funding of a fee to authors to release their own works under a Creative Commons license. [caption id="p3

Pull quote: "Their results show that flushing allows the highest levels of drugs to enter the environment by far, and creates more air pollution than trashing.

Drugs collected by take-back programs are incinerated, which means none of the medicines themselves enter the environment. But the programs produce much greater emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollutants than either flushing or trashing. That's due in large measure to travel: people have to travel to a drop-off point, and then the collected drugs are shipped somewhere for incineration."

I just pledged to unglue Riverwatch at @unglueit. Will you join me?

We Made Some Matches, Lighting Them is Up To You [@unglueit founder Eric Hellman on the first 12 hours since launch]

7 Tips for Saving on Rental Cars | New York Times

All Digital Objects are Born Digital Objects ['Digitization is a creative act'] | The Signal: Digital Preservation

Open Access Spreads to Miami University libraries < Ah, it warms my heart that my alma matter took this step. Congrats!

Pull quote: "Oops! Nobody wants to see the 404: Page Not Found. But as Renny Gleeson shows us, while he runs through a slideshow of creative and funny 404 pages, every error is really a chance to build a better relationship.

Renny Gleeson helps navigate brands through fresh concepts, such as viral marketing and social media, to find the pulse of the modern consumer."

RT @ProPubPrivacy: Sorry Facebook holdouts-- your life is only as private as your friends'

Google Search Just Got 1,000 Times Smarter | Mashable

how a book is born (because you kids love the infographics) | Weldon Owen

@rsinger Why Has Yahoo Killed Flickr? 5 Alternatives For Photo Sharing (Forbes) @fak3r @mjgiarlo @anarchivist

Pull quote: "In this epic overview, Michael Tilson Thomas traces the development of classical music through the development of written notation, the record, and the re-mix.

Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas (call him MTT) is an all-around music educator -- connecting with global audiences, young musicians and concertgoers in San Francisco and London."

RT @nprnews: 9-Year-Old To Westboro Baptist Protesters: 'God Hates No One'

@declan It is How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet | Gizmodo - @rsinger @fak3r @mjgiarlo

Have Server Will Lend (an eBook Journey Update) | Califa Products and News

The Last One Standing [by Jamie LaRue, Director of Douglas County (Colo.) Libraries] | Public Libraries Online

The [Douglas County Libraries] E-Book Experiment | Public Libraries Online

Interview with Leslie Straus, President of SkyRiver | Against-the-Grain excerpt [PDF]

Pentagon expands cybersecurity exchange [based on voluntary information sharing] | Washington Post

Court ruling in landmark e-reserve leaves unanswered questions | Inside Higher Ed

Pull quote: "Google animation shows what happens when Gmail users press send. Behind the scenes are secured and energy-efficient data centers designed to optimize server usage and end-user performance."

Pull quote: "By wrapping a HathiTrust handle with a single sign-on URL, it is possible to construct a link to a HathiTrust resource that automatically passes users from HathiTrust partner institutions through their institution's authentication service, effectively "automatically" logging them into HathiTrust."

Please Don't Learn to Code | Jeff Atwood's Coding Horror blog

Desktop Apps with HTML5 and the Mozilla Web Runtime

Pull quote: "There are people who can quickly memorize lists of thousands of numbers, the order of all the cards in a deck (or ten!), and much more. Science writer Joshua Foer describes the technique -- called the memory palace -- and shows off its most remarkable feature: anyone can learn how to use it, including him.

Joshua Foer is a science writer who 'accidentally' won the U.S. Memory Championship."

“Why I break DRM on e-books”: A publishing exec speaks out | paidContent

Abstract: "This document describes an API proposed by the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) group for the delivery of images via a standard http request. The IIIF API specifies a web service that returns an image in response to a standard http or https request. The URL can specify the region, size, rotation, quality characteristics and format of the requested image. A URL can also be constructed to request basic technical information about the image to support client applications. The IIIF API was conceived of to facilitate systematic reuse of image resources in digital image repositories maintained by cultural heritage organizations. The API could be adopted by any image repository or service, and can be used to retrieve static images in response to a properly constructed URL."

The circumstances of our lives may matter less than how we see them, says Rory Sutherland. At TEDxAthens, he makes a compelling case for how reframing is the key to happiness.

Rory Sutherland stands at the center of an advertising revolution in brand identities, designing cutting-edge, interactive campaigns that blur the line between ad and entertainment.

Writers won't lose out if libraries lend ebooks | Books | The Observer [U.K.]

Pull quote: "Internet Protocol over Xylophone Players (IPoXP) situates humans at the lowest layers of the Internet. Read the full paper at http://www.stuartgeiger.com/ipoxp.pdf. A project by R. Stuart Geiger, Yoon Jeong, and Emily Manders at the University of California, Berkeley. Presented at alt.CHI 2012."

Pull quote: "A University of California graduate student has shown how to transmit Internet packets by playing them on xylophones"

Pull quote: "The carrier thinks device makers should converge on models with cellular radios as the cost goes down"

Legos, spaceships, breasts. ['blue' and 'pink' Lego sets] | Kate Bachus

The GSU decision — not an easy road for anyone | Scholarly Communications @ Duke

Inside the Georgia State Opinion | The Laboratorium

On Diaspora's Social Network, You Own Your Data | Businessweek

Some libraries ban racy trilogy : ‘Fifty Shades’ raises issue of censorship | The Columbus Dispatch

RT @MarthaBunton: Digital Curation Tools and Services Catalog #digitalpreservation

Would More U.S. Oil Drilling Mean Lower Gas Prices? [in a word: 'no'] | NPR's Planet Money

Recent analysis from the FBI and other government agencies demonstrates that malicious actors are targeting travelers abroad through pop-up windows while establishing an Internet connection in their hotel rooms.

Pull quote: "Thanks to Daniel Sifton of Vancouver Island University for this set of MARC records for the 750+ titles listed in the Directory of Open Access Books for free download."

Pull quote: "The current state of the economy and the job market has made it almost impossible to find a job. If you want to be one of the “chosen” to land an interview, you must be at the top of your game. No longer is it enough to simply appear at an interview dressed in a suit and armed with a positive attitude. Today’s candidates must be thoroughly prepared for each interview they attend. An important component of that preparation is knowing the ten things you should always bring with you to an interview."

Pull quote: "Rackspace is officially adopting the OpenStack cloud platform, but there are other players in the cloud standards arena. Thoran Rodrigues identifies the major competitors likely to influence cloud computing standards."

Why Publishers Don't Like Apps | Technology Review