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Library News & Notes —
May 8, 2009

Internet Sites of the Week

Are Social Web Sites Spoiling In-Person Conversation?
http://www.salon.com/tech/giga_om/tech_insider/2009/05/01/are_social_web_sites (Shortened url)

arXiv iPhone apps
http://physmaths.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/arxiv-iphone-apps/
(Source: PAMNET)

Brookhaven Finds Its Star on the Rise
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/nyregion/long-island/03labli.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

Can't Keep It All: Learning from Budget Cuts
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6655370.html?&rid=1105906703&source=title
(Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog)

Cheat Codes for Everyday Life, and How to Use Them
http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/magazine/17-05/st_cheatcodes

Citation Violations
http://www.the-scientist.com/2009/05/1/13/1/
(Source: Christina's LIS Rant)

Control freaks don't get it: the web works best in a free-for-all
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/may/03/digital-media-john-naughton
(Source: s1technews)

Copyright and wrongs
http://www.economist.com/debate/days/view/310
(Sources: SLA; Techdirt)

Defining Common Collaboration Tensions
http://ow.ly/5wIz

A Dozen Things the Smart Grid Can Learn from the Internet
http://www.salon.com/tech/giga_om/clean_tech/2009/04/30/a_dozen_things_the_ (Shortened url)

The female advantage
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/05/03/the_female_advantage/ (Shortened url)
(Source: Sloan Work & Family Network)

FreeShipping.org
"Free Shipping Coupons to 1489 Stores"
http://www.freeshipping.org/
(Source: Blackstump)

How to cite Twitter, how to cite tweets, how to archive tweets
http://gunther-eysenbach.blogspot.com/2009/04/how-to-cite-twitter-how-to-cite-tweets.html

How to Perfect an Elevator Pitch About Yourself
http://ow.ly/54Ja

How to Revise an Email (Revised)
http://ow.ly/4Kuv

Impressive: The Wolfram Alpha "Fact Engine"
http://searchengineland.com/wolfram-alpha-fact-engine-18431
(Source: Pandia Search World)
See also: Ask Alpha: Quizzing the world's first answer engine
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227075.600-ask-alpha-quizzing-the-worlds-first-answer-engine.html
(Source: Science in the News)
See also: Wolfram Alpha and Google Face Off
http://www.technologyreview.com/web/22585/
See also: Wolfram Alpha vs. Google: Answers to Your Queries
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/23495/
(Source: dweinberger)
Wolfram Alpha vs. Google = Power vs. Simplicity?
http://ow.ly/5N9N
See also: Little search engines that could
http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/05/07/little-search-engines-that-could/

Law School Will Cut Staff To Trim Budget
http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=528124

Literary Tweets: 100+ of the Best Authors on Twitter
http://mashable.com/2009/05/08/twitter-authors/
(Source: roselovec)

Merck Makes Phony Peer-Review Journal
http://blog.bioethics.net/2009/05/merck-makes-phony-peerreview-journal/
(Source: Boing Boing)
See also: Elsevier admits journal error
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c4a698ce-39d7-11de-b82d-00144feabdc0.html
(Source: LIBLICENSE-L)

The news of RSS death might be exaggerated
http://paolo.evectors.it/2009/05/the-news-of-rss-death-might-be.html
See also: Kill Your RSS Reader
http://www.slate.com/id/2217353/?from=rss

Quantum Diaries
http://www.quantumdiaries.org/
(Source: Physics Today)

Publishers & Librarians: Two Cultures, One Goal
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6652447.html
(Source: Ellyssa Kroski)

Rethinking the American Dream
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2009/04/american-dream200904?printable=true&currentPage=all
(Source: timoreilly)

Scholarly Communication Program Speaker Series
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/news/libraries/2009/2009-05-01.scholcomm.html
(Source: SPARC Open Access Forum)

Sci-Mate
"The Sci-Mate (Scientific Material Transfer Exchange) is an open collaboration to address well known problems in academic publishing and commercial development using proven Web 2.0 software solutions."
http://sci-mate.org/
(Source: genomepop)

Science wikinomics. Mass networking through the web creates new forms of scientific collaboration
http://www.nature.com/embor/journal/v10/n5/full/embor200979.html
See also: Doing science in the open
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/print/38904
See also: Scientists lead the push for open data sharing
http://www.researchinformation.info/features/feature.php?feature_id=214
(Source: Open Access News)

Twitter for Libraries (and Librarians)
http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/may09/Milstein.shtml

Want to Know What People Expect of You? Ask!
http://wfnetwork.bc.edu/blog/want-to-know-what-people-expect-of-you-ask

Weathering the Storm
http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-20090429-000002.xml

Where is the cloud? Geography, economics, environment, and jurisdiction in cloud computing
http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2456/2171
(Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog)

Why a company needs to be based in Massachusetts
http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2009/05/04/focus1-Why-a-company-needs (Shortened url)

Why text messages are limited to 160 characters
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/05/invented-text-messaging.html
(Source: digg)

Why Twitter Matters for News
http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/05/tim-oreilly---why-twitter-matt.html
(Source: scobelizer)

Will Financial Crisis Starve Academic Innovation?
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2009/05/04/geiger

Your brain on -- and off -- caffeine
http://www.physorg.com/news160416875.html

Your Search Returned 12 Million Books
http://www.slate.com/id/2217804/?from=rss
See also: The Fight over the Google of All Libraries: A Wired.com FAQ
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/04/the-fight-over-the-worlds-greatest-library-the-wiredcom-faq/
(Source: timoreilly)

10 sites that help you track the economy
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10230841-2.html (Shortened url)


10 Tips on Becoming a Better Presenter
http://presentationsoft.about.com/od/powerpointinbusiness/tp/071231resolutions.htm

25 Microchips That Shook the World
http://spectrum.ieee.org/may09/8747

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