Bibliotheken en het Digitale Leven in de vierde April week van 2012

Cloudconcurrentie overheerste deze week: Google Drive – Skydrive – of Dropbox? Compare SkyDrive, Google Drive and Dropbox Voorlopig ondersteunt Dropbox nog de meeste platforms, maar het laatste woord is er nog niet over gezegd. 7 Things You Can Do With Your Cloud Storage. Maar niets is perfect, Google Drive ook niet Google Drive’s Six Substantial Slip-ups.

De selectie van deze week:

Bibliotheek
Wauw, heel actief met boeken nieuwsvergaren is Timo Boezeman: De digitale oogst chapeau!

New New Reports: “Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives, and Museums. Part 3: Recommendations and Readings” and “Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives, and Museums: Executive Summary” (Stephen’s Lighthouse)
The disappearing virtual library (Aljazeera)
Serial Solutions Will Make Europeana and European Library Material Discoveable via Summon Discovery Service | LJ INFOdocket

Digitale leven

‘Communicatie’ doe je van je af; ‘communiceren’ doe je met elkaar! (Frankwatching)
Het einde van BYOD lijkt nabij (Computerworld) Echt?
FBI: Hundreds Of Thousands May Lose Internet In July (Huffington Post) en hoe je dat kunt voorkomen: Detect | DCWG
Memento Depot provides information about archives of web content that are accessible via the Memento “Time Travel for the Web” protocol.
Whether the digital era improves society is up to its users – that’s us | Danah Boyd (Guardian) :

We fear the things – and people – that we do not understand far more than the things we do, even if the latter are much more risky
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Bernstein describes as going “Twitter zen”. This is the happy state people reach when they let go of control and just embrace the information firehose.

Google

Google’s Cutts Explains How Google Search Works
Matt Cutts explains in this video of 8 minutes how Google crawls, uses page rank, sets priorities, indexes, and filters. Even explains the dance. (Gwen)
Don’t Be Evil but Don’t Miss the Tech Train (NYTimes) Google’s dilemma

Research
Veel over open access: