The 6th incarnation of Elmer's blog
Outgoing: WorldCat Wiki
“The idea is to have a Wiki that complements WorldCat. People could add reviews, cover art, comments, etc. and relate these to bibliographic records (maybe at the FRBR work-level too). We hope the system is flexible enough so that people do (good) things we’re not expecting. We’d like the Wiki to be available anywhere WorldCat records are.“
Picked this up via Library Stuff. Sounds like a great idea. Something to keep in mind for my FoLL article.
Wired News: Watch for Roadcasting Rage
“Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are developing an ad hoc networking system for cars that would allow any driver to broadcast music to any other vehicle within a 30-mile radius.“
Hmm, neat concept. I think Cory Doctorow came up with it in “Eastern Standard Tribe“, at least that’s where I ran across it. He even notes, back in October 2004, that enterprising iPodders where starting to do this sort of thing. Anyhow, I think it’s cool and I hope Cory gets the credit.
freshmeat.net: Project details for Olive
“Olive is a console mode RSS newsreader. It provides a chronological rather than site-oriented view of news stories and tries to stay out of your way as much as possible.“
This I will have to try. Once its on the console, you know it must be serious:)