For personal reasons says he, but other reports point to ” imminent securities fraud litigation, and legal challenges by states claiming fraudulent certification of Diebold voting machines.” Not to mention the troubles and power plays that Diebold has been involved in here in NC. (Major Source here is SlashDot as an aggregator).
Archive for December, 2005
Dec
13
2005
Podcastercon – Earlier start! Later finish!Posted by Paul in General, Information CommonsCamilla McGuinn’s Roadie Reports entries over on the Roger McGuinn Blog give us not only a nice history of the young Jimmy (later to be Roger) including pictures of his first band, The Frets, but also the story of mixing and mastering the 100 songs for THE FOLK DEN PROJECT. Roger began recording a different folk song each month back in November 1995 and giving them away on the Internet. We’ve been a part of this project of most of its life here at ibiblio by hosting the site and developing some software and procedures to support the work.
Dec
12
2005
Lipsitz poem on Writer’s AlmanacPosted by Paul in Alumni and other friends, General, literatureInto the future, Lou Lipsitz’s poem “In memory of George Lewis, Great Jazzman” will air on Wednesday December 14 nationally on the Writer’s Almanac read by Garrison Keillor. You can hear it in advance here.(Real Audio) The latest from the Kansas City Star tells us that Brian LeBeau, The University of Missouri-Kansas City dean who was put on administrative leave after being accused of plagiarism[...]will not seek reinstatement to his dean’s position.
Dec
12
2005
More on Library Futures (and wikipedians)Posted by Paul in Amusements, General, Information CommonsMike Conway posts a comment in response to the musing about the Future of Collections in Academic Libraries below asking about Wikipedians (as a term and as a people) and a bit about library futures. I decided to reply as a brief article and as a comment so’s it doesn’t get lost. First Wikipedian is not that new a term. Wikipedians have been self-identifying by that name for a while now. See also “You now you are a Wikipedian if …” We have a professional information caste; we call them “librarians” and less often “encyclopedians” The last were/are the heroes of the Foundation Trilogy as compilers of the Encyclopedia Galactica. Or you might prefer the parody turned real HitchHiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”. For the moment, I’m thinking and talking about academic libraries and their future collections. A little bit of boundary helps me out. I do think that data preservation and access (see post above) problems and solutions contain the big issues for the next 20 years. Public libraries are in an interesting state. They are busier than ever before. People are demanding growth and more access. Being able to access information on the Internet seems to have increased public library use. Book clubs, internet access, reference, and collections of multimedia (books on tape, children’s, etc) are large growth areas at the moment. An aside, today I have two board meetings — one of the Academic Board of the Library for the UNC Academic Libraries; one for the Chapel Hill Public Library Board of Trustees. UPDATE: Nassib has been thinking about Federated Databases in Science over at his blog.
Dec
11
2005
Podcastercon – Budget met!Posted by Paul in Alumni and other friends, General, Information Commons, Virtual CommunitiesBrian Russell announces that Podcastercon has raised the money needed to meet his ideal budget (over on the podcastercon blog). Wikonews one year old! The wikians (wikinews contributors in English, Polish, Swedish, and Dutch) interview Jimmy Wales about the state of the wiki. Brian Chase of Nashville, TN confessed that he was the wiki-hoaxer who wrote the notorious changes to the John Seigenthaler bio. He immediately had his own Wiki-bio added. Katharine Steelye’s New York Times article in Today’s paper is one of the best sources on the details and the characters involved.
Dec
11
2005
Stirred up over Stir up SundayPosted by Paul in Alumni and other friends, Amusements, GeneralAmongst American Episcopalians, this is Stir Up Sunday (see last year’s post). Others hold that Stir Up Sunday is the first Sunday before Advent, but we go with the American Prayer Book (the Commonality of the Book of Common Prayer is only national). The volcano is getting active just just two islands north of MisterSugar’s paradise. Just asking the Elections Board to obey and enforce the good laws of the state of North Carolina. A bit from the middle of the EFF press release linked above:
On March 13, I’m speaking at the Librarians’ Association at UNC-Chapel Hill conference here. The conference theme is “Beyond the 5 year plan: The academic library in 2025″ I’ve drawn the library collections of the future straw (see preliminary description below). 2025 is definitely in the future! I’m open for suggestions as to what will be collected and how they’ll be held. My initial take is that relationships between objects in a collection will be as important as the objects, whatever format, themselves. Algorithms and code for accessing datasets and related objects, which have never really been considered as part of a library collection, will be an important and necessary part of the future library. Without them, the datasets and objects that libraries will be holding for medicine and science soon and for other disciplines in time cannot be understood or used.
Dec
09
2005
Getting there – to the Grind and in the TrianglePosted by Paul in Alumni and other friends, Amusements, GeneralFirst important news! The Daily Grind is accessible again. We’ve had to weave through Student Stores for coffee and tea for what seems like forever, but now the fence that blocked us from the beloved Grind is down and you can walk right into the Grind! But all is not completely clear, according to UNC ConstructionWatch work on the Daniels aka Student Stores Building will continue through December 2006. Second, Councilman, Triangle Transportation Board member, and Goodmon Award winner Bill Strom replies to my forwarding him notice of Google Transit’s Portland only transit planning maps by sending me a link to RideTTA which does the same thing for the Triangle and does, to my mind, a better job too. Unfortunately, the maps all tell me to walk over a mile to get on the transit grid just to get started. Others might be better situated to take advantage of RideTTA. Update: Bill writes again to say that if there is no bus stop within .25 miles of you, Chapel Hill Transit will send a shuttle to you. I don’t mind a little walking but I might try a shuttle to start a trip to Raleigh.
Dec
08
2005
DocSouth and Jones on BoingBoingPosted by Paul in Alumni and other friends, General, News of NewsThe Boing Boing post “19th c. book: Geography for Dixie Children” from Documenting the American South
Dec
08
2005
Tar Heel on Seigenthaler issue and WikipepdiaPosted by Paul in Alumni and other friends, General, Information Commons, News of News, Virtual CommunitiesJust took a phone call from a Daily Tar Heel reporter, Kyle Chorpening, who is doing a story on Wikipedia and the Seigenthaler issue. He had already spoken to Seigenthaler and to Jimmy Wales before calling me. What the heck could I add after that?
Natalia Smith writes to announce that the ibiblio-hosted Documenting the American South Project has added Oral Histories:
According to BBC: The term ‘podcast’ has been declared as Word of the Year by the New Oxford American Dictionary. Learn more at Podcastercon.
Dec
07
2005
Podcastercon – Getting iTunedPosted by Paul in Alumni and other friends, Amusements, General, Information CommonsOne nice thing about the upcoming Podcastercon as an unconference is that you can propose a session on a topic that you know something about but want to know more about — sort of like Birds of a Feather sessions. TJ and I have proposed a session on iTunes and podcasting.
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