I _Really_ Don't Know

Should the President Use E-mail?

That's the question posed by Freakonomics a few days ago, but not for the reasons you might suspect.

http://blogs.talis.com/panlibus/archives/2007/12/the_library_20_1.php

A few of us got together to chuck around Roy's Library Software Manifesto.

ls -l | grep "^[^d]..x" | awk '{ print $8 }' | sort

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Schneider, Karen G: Kindle doesn’t light my fire:

I suspect the Kindle doesn't hit the high notes after all...

for BLOG in $( curl http://talisians.com/opml.xml 2>/dev/null | sed -n -e "s/.xmlUrl="http://(.)"/>/\1/p" ) ; do echo $BLOG; curl http://www.criticsrant.com/bb/readinglevel/readinglevelrating.aspx?url=$BLOG 2>/dev/null | sed -n -e "s/<img id="imgBadge" src="/bb/readinglevel/img/..jpg" alt="(.)" border="0" />/\1/p"; done

Amazon.com: Kindle: Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device: Kindle Store:

Will Kindle change the game? I'm not sure, it's not open for you buy books from anywhere, uploading your own stuff to it requires emailing it via Amazon and it's far from iPhone in its looks.

A few months back I read David Weinberger's Everything is Miscellaneous. After his contribution to The Cluetrain Manifesto back in 1999 my expectations were high. Mine higher than most, perhaps, as the book is dedicated "to the librarians" and I work for a company with several decades of heritage in library systems.

I already knew I liked David's style of writing from Cluetrain, so I was glad to hear that same voice coming through loud and clear.

If you're not watching what's happening on the Open Data Commons work we started last year, you should be - go, go and look now.

Open Data Commons brief update

Based on a script from here: http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/security/investigator/archives/stolen-machines-phone-home-10506

this now lives in /usr/bin/ipkeyb file

In a classic Lawrence Lessig presentation, this time at TED, he explains why we must stop criminalizing our kids.

found via: Powell, Andy and Johnston, Pete: Strangling creativity