From the monthly archives:

January 2010

China Battles the “Information Barbarians”?

31 January 2010
China vs. Google and the Information Curtain

Ian Baruma has a thought-provoking article in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, entitled, “China Battles the Information Barbarians“. The author puts Google management’s decision to stop cooperating with Chinese censors and their threat to close down its operations in China in historical context. According to Baruma, the Chinese government has battled Western Information Imperialism since the [...]

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Data Privacy Day 2010 — Your Online Reputation

29 January 2010
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January 28th, 2010 was International Data Privacy Day. The idea behind the day is to raise awareness of the need for data privacy, and to encourage “dialog among all of the stakeholders — businesses, individuals, government agencies, non-profit groups, academics, teachers and students –- to look more thoroughly at how advanced technologies affect our daily [...]

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Beginning a Series — Reviews of Open Data Sites

29 January 2010
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I will be reviewing English-language, government-sponsored open data sites as an off-shoot of my doctoral work. I will begin initially with the “key” government sites compiled by the authors of The Guardian’s DataBlog as one of their inaugural posts.
Last week I reviewed data.gov.uk, so I while I may add a bit more detail to [...]

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Is “Information Management” Hype?

29 January 2010
Is Information Management Hype?

I enjoyed watching this video from 2008. It begins with a variety of quotes and mis-quotes by technology experts beginning in 1899, using an early 1900s moving pictures style of graphics. The author then uses images of streams of data and a catchy Elvis song to throw (unsourced) facts and figures out about data use, [...]

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Technical Difficulties Solved

28 January 2010

(Ignore this if you don’t like web geeking.)
I couldn’t work on this between 2:30 PM and 5:30 PM today, but I had determined the problem with the permalinks was the .htaccess file. One of the caching programs I had used and then uninstalled had overwritten the .htaccess file, so even though I had deleted out [...]

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Currently Having Technical Difficulties

28 January 2010

For reasons I don’t understand, the permalinks that worked perfectly fine early today and since I first created this blog, are not working and give users a 404 message. I am investigating and troubleshooting.

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Is Web 3.0 About Taming the Deluge of Data?

26 January 2010
Is Web 3.0 About Taming the Data Deluge, or About Gimmicks?

The Social Path has an interesting post about how Web 3.0 is about “taming the deluge of data”. The author(s) wrote the post based on a presentation the author(s) had seen recently by Andrew Keen.
The author(s) write that three trends are defining “3.0″:

Aggregators: one point of entry to multiple social network sites;
Simple Sharing: easy [...]

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The Digital Dilemma

25 January 2010
The Digital Dilemma | Science and Technology Council | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

In the fall of 2007, the Science and Technology Council of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) released a report entitled, “The Digital Dilemma“. In a nutshell, the Council tackled the topic of archiving digital movies. They examined how this could be done, what the costs would be, and how these methods [...]

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Facebook’s Bait & Switch and User Complicity

24 January 2010
Privacy loss -- an eye peers thru a keyhole

I admit I was shocked when Facebook announced last month that the new default for users would be a complete lack of privacy, unless you had or did set your privacy controls to shut out anyone but your friends. Librarians have a very strong notion of patron privacy that spills over even to us Information [...]

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An Information Management Fairy Tale

23 January 2010
An Information Management Fairy Tale

This is a story about a young dragon, Data Quality, who settles in a shire, far, far away. He seemed harmless at first, so he was ignored. Then he grew into a menace, and the villagers hired a knight to fight the dragon and found the fountain of knowledge.

And they all lived happily ever after.
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