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Track bands Discover local music Stop missing great shows!
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The U.S. Postal Service wants to move mail cancellation to a new facility outside the city of Detroit -- and change the postmark to ``Michigan Metroplex.'' Residents and postal workers are disgruntled by the proposal.
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map shows news aggregated by continent and country and state; default front page africa
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WikipediaVision is a visualization of edits to the English Wikipedia, almost the same time as they happen. The idea came after seeing flickervision and twittervision, both created by David Troy.
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i'll be speaking there
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Under the direction of the Director, the Associate Director of Public Services has overall responsibility for the Library's delivery of quality programs and services to the community we serve. The Associate Director of Public Services must be highly ene
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describes the "clinical medical librarian" role and the impact of having a medical librarian at morning report to research the literature on cases reported there.
Vacuum
I am a leader by default, because nature abhors a vacuum. (Desmond Tutu)
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October 2007
October 31, 2007
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October 30, 2007
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SPARK is distributing Pfizer-donated laboratory consumables. Here are instructions for how to get supplies.
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suggestion for auto-fill for forms - to automate "renew all books at the library" task
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"The Google results just had too much stuff I wasn't looking for," she says. "I wanted to zoom in on the best snorkeling beaches." And within seconds, Quintura delivers.
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Something went on with that water/oil mixture. My guess is that the water regulated the temperature, as long as the water was in there everything was kept right around the boiling point. When the last water evaporated, the temperature must have shot up to
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catching this review
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October 29, 2007
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i met wil in ann arbor
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Frankly, not what I was looking for, but you might find it an interesting read. Weird splog with a style reminiscient of some bloggers, if the script was a bit more varied it might even be compelling.
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Photo set on Flickr of ArbCamp using post-it notes to "digg" session events, and lots more photos from the event held at Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, MI. OH NOES! THEY BE COMERSHULIZN MY BARCAMP VALUZ!
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airport rankings - link in text goes to a World Airport Rankings site
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October 28, 2007
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The Benzinger Library Cooperative is a student group dedicated to maintaining the Benzinger library (or “Benz”) as a fully equipped lending library. The Benz was once part of a campus-wide collection of residence hall libraries, and has continued to s
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we all went to arbcamp and had a great time.
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word game for food aid
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mitten's talk on blueprint at arbcamp was a hit.
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October 27, 2007
ArbCamp
Thanks for coming! Awesome time. Look for the arbcamp tag on all media.
Technorati Tags: arbcamp, not-barcamp, nosirree-not-even-going-to-mention-barcamp
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Arbcamp scedule updated after lunch
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links for 2007-10-27
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collective wisdom about the weather.
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Oatmeal: 1c oats, 2c water, pinch salt. Heat to boil, stir, cover, turn off heat, let sit 5min. Eat with a spoonful of jam.
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absolutely amazing government at its disaster-finest.
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If you think about the Google Web site, let's say you are looking for running shoes in Ann Arbor,” Grady Burnett said.
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October 26, 2007
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google webmaster tools interview w/developer
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roster of google map mashups documenting southern california fires. andrew turner: "enter the era of citizen news mapping"
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comprehensive michigan services tax information from carol ruth shepherd, arborlaw
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"People say how quiet these buses are compared to regular diesel engines," said Carnnell Taite, an AATA bus driver who has driven the hybrid buses.
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portfolio of graphic design
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Dina deconstructs a strong brand with a weak online presence for users of the brand.
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not expensive ticketing
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Welcome to the Detroit Curling Club webpage. The Detroit Curling Club dates back to 1885 and has had many homes in the Southeast Michigan area and many illustrious members. Curling is a great sport for all ages, and the club is an excellent way to get sta
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My group in my pastry class has moved on to plated desserts and that gives us lots of opportunities to play with sauce! This week we made apple charlottes and plated them with creme anglaise and caramel sauce.
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Hollis Henry is an investigative journalist, on assignment from a magazine called Node. Node doesn't exist yet, which is fine; she's used to that. But it seems to be actively blocking the kind of buzz that magazines normally cultivate before they start up
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Stuart Henshall suggests: "every VP Marketing should be enabling a social media listening program."
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Investing in Ability Week Oct. 19 - 26, 2007
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"The blog is produced using a variety of tools. Most of the blog is written in the OPML Editor, a free, open source Windows and Mac outlining application with a powerful set of scripting tools underneath the hood."
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BE MY FREND PLEEZ. but on which system?
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lunch series; page needs love, since the description should have all the author names in it so that I can do the lazy bookmark on delicious. some good stuff here. will have to blog about it.
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I send myself to-do list items in Remember the Milk by calling Jott. These two services don’t know anything of each other, but they play very nicely together.
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how to write apps for m.facebook.com .
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October 25, 2007
Wikipedia: Threat or Menace?
Bill Tozier and I went to see Marshall Poe's talk at Eastern. Here's impressionistic notes on it. It's missing most of the links (sorry).
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notes from Marshall Poe talk at Eastern Michigan University.
On the screen: "Sigismund von Herberstein".
intro: "informed about wikipedia, active participants in the creation of knowledge through wikipedia"
sponsors: history, philosophy
full house, or at least mostly full.
no t-mobile signal, and no open wifi; and therefore no way to ask twitter for a password for the emich wifi. and no power at the desk. so there might be limits to what I can do online, and I do have paper as a backup.
second speaker introduces marshall poe. "marshall poe is no charlatan". phd from u cal berkeley. taught at harvard, nyu, now at iowa. field is russian history, became aware of his work. many teaching awards including at harvard. many publications. numerous. various. books, articles, reviews, "the russian moment in world history" princeton university press. book sold well, translated to swedish, greek, russian. forthcoming. scholarly, very scholarly. vast number of reviews. publishing online "later then published by large publishers". book forthcoming called "wiki world: the globalization of knowledge in the 21st century" based on atlantic monthly.
suggested that grad students read and bring up to academic standards the set of russian history articles. "wikipedia is junk", "don't want to encourage it any more". contributor to using the internet for scholarly purposes. (hm, have any of his articles been done for assistive media? check on this). memory archive, have people write down their own memories. former moderator of the early slavic studies list. cofounder of new journals dealing with russian history. scholar, teacher, leading thinker. ability to communicate effectively scholarly insights to the general public.
(applause) (applause)
"sigismund freiherr von herberstein". "the columbus of russia". for my sins I spent my youth studying this individual. surfing the net, found wiki. who else is interested? Phaedrus86. Doesn't saw a lot about himself. Computer programmer in New Zealand...who else is interested? "I was just kind of interested." History degree, read his books. Send him Christmas cards. Revelation in 2001, found a person who was not a professional who was also interested.
A lot of people know a lot of stuff, and not recorded, and when you die it will die with you. Wikipedia is a way for you to say what you know. Knowledge is not something you can take with you. You can contribute, collaborate with millions of other people in building the greatest repository of knowledge the world has ever known.
History of wikipedia
What it is, how it works
How to use it for your own purposes
1. Nupedia. 1998 start, 2000 copy on archive.org. Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger.2000/04/07. Academics work really slowly. Didn't work.
2. Sanger meets a wiki person (who?). Wiki, collaboratively. Great idea. Implemented it on Nupedia, nothing happened. Academics said "you've got to be kidding". Mass defection, pissed off all the academics. Project is at an end.
3. Sanger. Let's just let anybody edit it. Wales: Ana Kournikova web ring, big in 2000.
Discovered quite by accident that there was a lot of people who were aching to edit encyclopedia articles.
Professors said "this is going to be crap". Maybe they're right, but they're not, they're not right.
Wikipedia 2001/03/31: Not terribly flashy, bad logo "accident with Illustrator".
Now: enormous: 2m+ English, 256k+ Svenska.
Everyone is dumping everything they know into it.
Wikipedians.... "there's a whole group of people who don't do anything except fix commas".
Alexa 9% of the net: 240m people use Wikipedia on any given day.
"What is this thing, facebook of which you speak? In my day it was called Friendster."
who is bigger than wikipedia? youtube, google, but not facebook or myspace.
edit, revert, edit, revert, add, add, cite.
Beyond Talmudic, beyond Byzantine - they go on and on and on about these things.
What is on Wikipedia *should be* correct, because it's the public.
"The legendary water tower".
Every meaningful object of experience has a page on wikipedia.
"History of the heavy metal umlaut."
Wikipedia in academia:
Wikipedia is a conversation, not an entity.
Take a dog to the beach. "Too useful to go away".
"There's some crazy dude in New Zealand who's going to do that for you."
How should you use wikipedia? Very carefully.
"For God sake, you're in college; don't cite the encyclopedia."
What do you do:
1. Register. Why would you want to be anonymous on the web? So you can hide. Because you hide if you're doing bad stuff.
(note to self: register on arborwiki, register on wikipedia, register on great lakes wiki....)
2. Build a reputation. Simple: act well, other people notice that you act well. similar to ebay. "reputation management system".
3. Formal mechanisms to engage wikipedia. Use wikipedia as a course assignment.
(mapoe, that's a cereal I used to eat when I was a kid)
Using the wiki as course management software - Marshall Poe at Iowa - let John Lawler talk to him about this !)
* don't plagiarize
* cite your sources
* don't make stuff up
H-RUSSIA
WikiProject Russian history
"Go there and add and contribute".
"Make sure everyone knows everything."
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It was a great talk, and it was good talking with him afterwards. I gave him an a2b3 sticker, so if you're in Iowa and you see one of those say hi.
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SEO Best Practices Guide
The E-consultancy team is selling a £150 SEO Best Practices Guide with these topics in it:
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No link love - if they are good at what they do you'll be able to find it by searching for it :)
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