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Animation of the Tsunami Across the Pacific After the Chilean Earthquake

24 August 2010
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The earthquake in Chili on February 27th, 2010, caused massive damage within the country, but also generated a massive tsunami across the Pacific Ocean. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Center for Tsunami Research created the animation below of the tsunami as it traveled across the Pacific.
With regards to the saying that a [...]

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Team Digital Preservation and the Planets Testbed

16 August 2010

Last week, Team Digital Preservation released the 5th animation in their amusing take on the digital preservation problem.
In this episode, the topic is…virus protection and analysis!

Blizzard and his band of evil cronies, Team Chaos, have developed a devastating new weapon. But Never Fear trusty Viewers, tune in now to find out what those wonderful whizz-kids [...]

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Team Digital Preservation and the Arctic Mountain Adventure

9 July 2010

Team Digital Preservation released the 4th animation in their hilarious series on digital preservation this week.
In this episode, the topic is preservation planning, one of my areas.

Digiman is baby sitting his niece and nephew for the weekend, but things go horribly wrong when he sends them out on an arctic mountain adventure. Never fear trusty [...]

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A Short History of Scientific Information Services

15 April 2010
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In the following videos, the producer traces the history of scientific communication from verbal/in-person, to letters, and then to printed journals. The producer describes the work of ISI and the company’s founder, Eugene Garfield. Journals grew from a handful to thousands. This led to classification and indexing in order to find relevant journal articles via [...]

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Gaiman’s “MirrorMask” Library Cleverness

20 February 2010
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This past week I watched Neil Gaiman’s “Mirror Mask“. The book-as-film chronicles the dream of a teenager whose mother has become ill and is undergoing surgery. In the scene below, the teenager, Helena, goes to the library with her New Best Friend, Valentine, to find clues to a missing charm. They arrive via flying books [...]

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Google “Buzz”, Too Much Information

18 February 2010
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The other week I wrote about my own complicity in sharing my private data via Facebook. I do this and I continue to do it because I gain something from using Facebook. I think of Facebook as going to a local coffee shop. You are able to keep up with a wide variety of people [...]

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A History of the Internet

4 February 2010
A History of the Internet, c. 1957-2009.

The following animation is a concise, high-level technical history of the Internet, c. 1957-2009. This ~8 minute animation covers its early development and concepts, including the creation of the commercial, military, and scientific networks. This history describes how the politics of the times, such as the Cold War, influenced the decentralized, distributed design and development [...]

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The BooneOakley.com “Un-site” — They “Get It”

2 February 2010
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I admit I was left unimpressed by my first view of an “un-site“. I thought it was a clever-but-messy way to tame all of an organization’s online data, but the “site authors” (in quotes because it isn’t a web site) were trying too hard.
In the same post, the authors of The Social Path also linked [...]

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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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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.
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