iPhone 3.0 firmware due June 17th

The 3.0 firmware will be available on June 17th for free for iPhone users or $9.95 USD (55 NOK) for iPod Touch users. We could expect several new features. Another 8 days to wait......

Magda Carneci & Dan Hayon: A collection of smells



Powerful statements indeed!

This mornings first book .

You could soon find the book in our shelves (NTNU Library, Dragvoll) at the following dewey number: 968.4049

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UIUC Library Learn Videos

Some libraries use YouTube to promote general information to their users. Not at all a bad idea. Take a look at University of Illinois libraries and their learning videos here.

Library 2.0 network on Ning

The Library 2.0 network on Ning is the brainchild of Bill Drew. I have a my page on the Library 2.0 network but haven't used it much lately. I am planning to try and use it more often to see how it could fit into my work. It's easy to be judgemental before you have even tried something and seen it's true potential that's why i have decided to try and seek out the true potential of the social network of Ning.

My profile you will find here, expect to see "radical" changes in the near future.....

African Studies Journals in Wikipedia

Now African Studies Journals is available in Wikipedia.

This has two big advantages:
-the list of African Studies Journals is now available for a wide audience
-the list can be expanded and improved by anybody with knowledge about e-journals on Africa.

To quote Jos Damen (African Studies Centre, Leiden The Netherlands www.ascleiden.nl):

This is not a definitive list: it is work "under construction". The list will be expanded (ISBN etc) and updated in the future. It would be nice if all African Studies Journals would get their "own" page in Wikipedia, like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aequatoria and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Affairs

At the coming meeting of the European Librarians on African Studies in Leipzig (3 June 2009 at http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliotheca_Albertina ) more information on this project will be distributed.

iLibrarian - A Guide to Twitter in Libraries

A very good introduction and overview of different Twitter services. The guide is a good help in starting to use Twitter in the library.

Libraries on Twitter

On the blog "Circulation just another librarian blog" by Lindy Brown I found a list of U.S. libraries on Twitter (updated 5/15/09).

Oz Os Desktop Linux

Oz OS it's an Enlightenment (e17) Desktop Linux, built on a minimal Ubuntu base distribution (currently 8.04 "Hardy Heron"). It's has a great look and functionality. I have tried it through Suns Virtualbox. The number of pre-installed applications is quite minimalized. The menus looks great and also the rest of the desktop.

Wolfram Alpha

The search engine finally got released today. Try it here. Different Wolfram Aplha downloads here.

Fedora 11 Leonidas -Coming soon.....

The new Fedora linux distribution called Leonidas is arriving in 16 days. One of my laptops is eagerly awaiting the update. I have tried several Linux distributions and landed on Fedora for my "old" Dell Latitude D430. The speed is quite an issue and that's the main reason why I picked Fedora and not other Linux distributions.

Your own Linux distribution....

Create your own Linux distribution with Revisor or Suse Studio. Read more about it here.

Goodbye privacy. Welcome to Lifestream.fm

Stream your life!

Lifestream.fm is a media and social aggregator that will keep you and your friends informed about what you're doing online at a glance and in realtime. With Lifestream.fm you can put all your profiles and activity from your favorite web services all on one page, making it easy for your friends to see your newest bookmarks, your favorite videos, your tweets, photos you've uploaded, your newest blog posts, and more.
[text taken from the introduction to the service from Lifestream.fm]

Swine Flu Pandemic

Not everybody has worries about the Swine Flu....

"Poor Man's WiFi"-Give it a try.....

"Poor Man's WiFi". I really wanted to give it a try when I saw all this wonderfully homemade Wifi antennas. Some of them actually delivering a impressive gain of ~24 dB.

Upgrading to Ubuntu 9.04 and problems with ATI Radeon HD 2400XT

ATI Radeon drivers and Ubuntu is certainly not a dance on roses. After the NTNU IT department installed dualboot with Windows Xp and Ubuntu 8.04 on my work machine everything went smooth, no problems at all, but the problems came when I wanted to upgrade to 9.04, the xorg.conf file had manually been edited and ATI radeon drivers had been downloaded and installed from the native ATI driver site. No support from the NTNU IT department, but I already knew that, I had to admin my machine by myself the day I decided to switch to dualboot, or to say it plain and simple, the day I moved to Ubuntu and Linux.

My screen never came to the Ubuntu boot up screen, meaning that the solution was to edit the xorg.conf file from the command shell prompt.

nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Put this lines under the heading "Device"
Indentifier"Radeon"
Driver"Radeon"

Save with CTRL + O and leave with CTRL + Q

If it doesn't work at first try add the command:

aticonfig --initial

Now Ubuntu 9.04 works with the awful ATI Radeon HD 2400XT drivers.

I hope this could be to any help for other people struggling with the same problem.

Ubuntu 9.04 jaunty jackalope

A huge speed boosting. The boot time is much quicker and everything else is running quicker too.
I love the feeling. It was installed and running smooth and wonderful 20.15 this evening.
That's what I love about linux and Ubuntu it's stable and without having to wonder what the hell is happening, it just do the work and is functioning.

BBC podcasts

BBC has a great selection and variety of available podcasts. The African continent is higlighted in
Africa Today and This Week in Africa

Rss Feed of the two podcasts:

Africa Today

This Week in Africa

Amendment 138 (now am. 46)

On Tuesday, April 21st at 20:00, the ITRE report of the Telecoms Package, rapported by Catherine Trautmann, will come to a vote in the ITRE (Industry, TRansport, Energy) committee.

It may reintroduce amendment 138 (now renumbered amendment 46), a crucial safeguard of user's rights on the Internet, and protection against the media industry private police and retribution called the "graduated response" or "three strikes" schemes. Am. 138 was approved by 88% of the European Parliament in first reading, on September 24th, 2008.

Pirate Bay verdict- The four accused in jail

The four accused in the Pirate Bay trial is all sentenced to 1 year in jail and to pay back 30 million Swedish Kroner. The swedish newspaper "aftonbladet" is mentioning that they have to pay back 10.822.500 swedish kroner to the filmcompany 21 Century Fox and 5.579.325 svenske kroner to Mgm and Columbia.

Pirate Bay Press Conference on Friday 13.00 CEST

Today the verdict in the Pirate Bay trial will fall, comments on the verdict will be announced on a digital streamed Press conference at the Pirate Bay site on Friday the 17th of April some minutes before 13.00 CEST (12pm GMT). The verdict would not mean much for the actual torrent tracker sites but, they will live on, but for the people behind Pirate Bay it could mean that they risk being in debt for the rest of their lives.

The author Paulo Coelho is giving his support to Pirate Bay, he has even said: “I am openly supporting their site. I even volunteered to travel to Sweden to discuss the case of open contents, but I never got a reply from them,” [TorrentFreak.com].

New generations are used to share and distribute music online. Given the fact that we have fewer and fewer record shops where we could buy music, and very poor amount of titles in stock in their catalogues it's obvious that the recording industry/record industry has failed to distribute music digitally in record shops online, one of the few exceptions is iTunes, earning a huge amount of money and giving the artists the money they deserve for their artistic work.

Why sites like Pirate Bay and other big tracking sites is succeding is that they could offer a wide variety of music and films, something for every taste, you have to have in mind that not everybody likes Britney Spears, mainstream pop and rock. etc.

A lot of those people genuinely interested in music, like myself, buy music in record shops, mostly online, having more well stocked catalogues, Shadowland (Storgata, Oslo) and Staalplaat (Berlin) or Second Hand boutiques in the physical world.

Those artists not having a major record deal, not having a huge distribution network behind them see the sharing culture online as a nice asset and way of promoting their music in a cheap and easy way. They go from the status of being unknown to beginning to get recognized.

The big recording companies is unhealthy businesses pumping out crap music not worth listening to. Why are they entitled to call what they make culture and art, it's music for the corrupted masses, teenagers with no ideas and thoughts of their own is tempted to buy the music because of heavy commercials promoting the music in every channel available.

The big recording companies is paying to get their artists to be reviewed and mentioned in newspapers etc. Who is standing up for the independent artists, those worth mentioning with an artistic integrity?
I have reviewed music for more than 10 years but the commercialist aspect of the music industry sickens me.

The Pirate Bay trial and outcome is important. Finally we get a "healthy" debate about the distribution of music.

I am not taking sides in the torrent tracker debate but think it's healthy to get a new and fresh start on how to distribute and share music. We have to face the fact that we have something called the internet with a waste amount of oppertunities.

Pirate Bay is just one of many distributors of copyright material. What about:


YouTube
Metacafe
Mininova
Vuze
Seeqpod
Spotify
Streaming independent radio in general
Etc.

Or those programs (clients) making it possible to use the torrent tracking technology:

Bitcomet
Bitlord

Or built in torrent tracking in the Linux UBUNTU, Fedora OS distros like Transmission, Ktorrent etc.

It's really a complex picture with no easy solutions, putting 4 guys in jail won't silence the ongoing debate.

Add tweets to your Google search results in Firefox

I saw that one of the twitters I follow, Karen Blakeman, tweeted about a blogpost that she posted today. Through a interesting greasemonkey plugin and Twitter Search results on Google” script you could "enlarge" your Google Search.

Kompetansebygging 2.0 Møte i Second Life 08.30-10.00

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Kompetansebygging 2.0 Møte i Second Life den 16 April klokka 08.30-10.00 ved UBIT (Universitetsbiblioteket i Trondheim).

iCloud-Free online computer

After 8 years in the making has swedish Xcerion finally finished the online "computer" Icloud. I have made myself a user profile and tried it with Firefox running under Ubuntu 8.10 OS. It's quite a slow experience and iCloud has compatibility problems.

The Africa Guide

The Africa Guide:African Safaris,Tours,Holidays and Travel Guides. Simply a lot of information and resources about Africa.

WhyGo travelguide

"Each WhyGo Guide is created by writers who are truly passionate about their country, region, or theme. Part guide book, part blog, WhyGo Guides feature first-hand travel information to help you have the best experience on and off the tourist track".

One of todays urgent ordered "Presto" books

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Norflights

A great norwegian iPhone application showing flight arrivals and departures at norwegian airports.

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DISA

DISA, Digital Innovation South Africa containing several anti-apartheid periodicals from 1950-1994 has revamped their site and made more resources available. The layout is quite different from what it used to be, a pleasant surprise. What is DISA?
Read more here.

Twitturly-What have "all" your friends tweeted?

Twitt(url)y

See the Top 100 URLs the people that you follow have tweeted.
MyTop100 Turns the people that you follow on Twitter into your own personal news service. Enter your username and we'll look at everyone you follow and create a page just for you. Once we create your page, it will always be there for you to come back to.

Please have patience, the service is not very quick! Here is my twitt(url)y.

AfrikaTube. The African Youtube

Yes you actually have an african YouTube trying to have "Strictly african content". Here you could watch and upload videos much like what you do at the actual YouTube site.

City maps online-Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection

Are you planning to take a trip in the near future? From the Perry-Castañeda Library
Map Collection site you will find a long list of freely available city maps.

Looking for city maps in PDF? Try this bookmarklet

New book-Acquisition list African Studies Centre-Leiden, The Netherlands

Here is new updated acquisition list from february 2009 on books at the African Studies Centre in Leiden, The Netherlands.

African Studies Thesaurus

The thesaurus is developed and maintained by the staff at the African Studies centre in Leiden, The Netherlands.It's a structured vocabulary of 12,100 English terms in the field of African studies.

The University of Nigeria, Nsukka, has digitized several thousands theses and made them available online.

The theses can be found at the website of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka: http://www.unn.edu.ng/index.php/Research-Documents/

Publications date from ca. 1980 to 2008. Many fields of science are represented, with an emphasis on social sciences, medical sciences, education, bussiness administration and agriculture.

Apart from Ph.D., M.Sc., M.A. and MBA-publicatons the database also contains book chapters, working papers and journal articles.

TextGuru for iPhone

TextGuru, without a doubt the best text editor for iPod Touch and iPhone with a lot of very nice features. The possibility to download, share through web url, ftp tranfer and the possibility to handle several file formats like HTML,PDF,Powerpoint,Text and Word. Need I say more?

Apple Press Event - iPhone OS 3.0

Apple Press Event - iPhone OS 3.0 - March 17th 2009 at 10am PST, livestream at SlashGear

Digital Book Index

Digital Book Index provides links to more than 145,000 full-text digital books from more than 1800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. More than 100,000 of these books, texts, and documents are available free, while many others are available at very modest cost.

You have to login with your First and last name, Your organization's name and your e-mail address.

Geography in the news from Royal Geographical Society

Geography in the News: This site from the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) provides free learning resources, for teachers and students, focusing on the geography in and behind the news. Updated regularly, this dynamic and expanding website covers contemporary issues relevant to GCSE and A level geography curricula that feature in the news. Since launching in April major topics have included London's controversial congestion charge, the perennial problem of flooding in the UK and the facts and fables surrounding international migration. A wealth of downloadable resources is available including, video clips, maps, student activity sheets and teachers' notes. Users are able to interact with the site in a number of ways. A forum allows teachers to review the materials, students are able to report news stories with a geographical perspective from their local areas, a bulletin board enables users to give their views on 'hot' geographical topics and there is an interview area for interaction with experts.

BBC country profiles

Country Profiles: This BBC website provides key facts, figures, timelines and dates on all the world's leading countries. There is also a quick guide and timeline on Nato and a chronology of key events concerning the Vatican and the history of the Commonwealth.

Twictionary

Twictionary: The Dictionary for Twitter!

Traffikd

Traffikd, Social Media and Internet Marketing Blog

Superfast mobile browsing through bmenu.mobi

Through the menu driven bmenu.mobi you could browse the internet very fast, I have tried and the results are promising, the application was launched today, it's a webapp, just navigate to the address bmenu.mobi and start browsing. The application is indexing norwegian web resources. It made quite a difference when trying the webapp on my iPod Touch and iPhone but on my old Sony Ericsson mobile the speed was terribly slow as usual when surfing the web.

Applications News 8 hacks to make Firefox ridiculously fast

techradar.com is giving us 8 hacks making Firefox browsing even faster. I applied them and I could easily spot the difference.
Give it a try...
Myself I tried the following modifications:
It all starts with typing about:config in the address bar in Firefox.

Find network.http.proxy.pipelining and double click to change value to "true".
Find network,http.pipelining.maxrequests and double click and change value from 4 to 8.

Make new entries to about:config
Right click mouse and new--> integer type in: contenct.switch.threshold -ok- 250000- ok
Right click mouse and new--> integer type in: browse.cache.memory.capacity -ok- 65536- ok

Panoramio and Google

Now you could upload your favorite photos to Panoramio and you will be able to browse through them in Street View on Google Maps. A great way to show the world your favorite holiday destinations or some great travel memories.

Here you could see two of my travel photos from Berlin and Budapest

Encyclopedia.com

Encyclopedia.com is searching 49 encyclopedias from sources like Oxford University Press, Britannica, and Columbia University Press and 73 dictionaries and thesauruses with definitions, synonyms, pronunciation keys, word origins, and abbreviations. The search engine is powered by HighBeam research.

Plug computing-Marvell

"Marvell Introduces Plug Computing ─ High-Performance, Low-Power, Exceptionally Small Computer for Managing and Storing Digital Media Assets".More could be read on the following pages.

How to run Safari in Linux using Wine

I followed this instructions and waited with a small amount of excitement,like small children waiting to open their candy bag on saturday. It was not a success story, believe me, it's was really not functioning well on the 64-bit version of Linux. Maybe the story has a better ending with the 32-bit version of Linux?

Copy & Paste for iPod Touch and iPhone

I have actually tried a copy and paste webapp working without the need to jailbreak your device.
It's working with a little help from a couple of javascript bookmarklets. The webapp is calles pastebud. Just follow the instruction and you will soon enjoy a fairly simple copy and paste function.Unfortunately, pastebud can only be installed from a browser that syncs with iTunes (Safari or Internet Explorer), or from an iPhone or iPod Touch.

Library avatars at Mount Saint Vincent University

I came across a interesting article in the Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, vol. 3, no. 2 (2008) telling a success story from the MSVU library when adding avatars to their library site. The reason why they decided to introduce the avatars is this: "Two talking avatars -- Sarah and Suzie SitePal -- were recently added to the MSVU Library website. By adding the avatars to the site, the Library hopes to make the site more interactive and fun for new and returning students. The avatars are used to welcome students to the Library, to highlight Library resources and services, and to relay information about Library events". Here you could see the avatars in action.

Google sync your address book and calendar

Google Sync Beta for iPhone, WinMo and SyncML Phones is now released.You could now in a easy way backup and add contacts through iTunes by logging into your Google account.

* Get Google Calendar events on your device
* View multiple Calendars in different colors
* Synchronize your Contacts with Google
* Have changes pushed directly to your phone


Features

Synchronize your contacts. Get your Google contacts quickly and easily to your iPhone. With Sync, you can have access to your address book at anytime and place that you need it.

Get calendar alerts. Using your iPhone's native calendar, you can now access multiple Google calendars, and be alerted for upcoming appointments with sound or vibration.

Always in sync. Your calendar and contacts stay synchronized whether you access them from your iPhone or from your computer. Add or edit contacts or calendar entries right on your device or on your Google account on the web.

Gapminder World

Mind the Gap!
The Gapminder website helps you analyse indicators of development: http://tools.google.com/gapminder.Gapminder World: "Gapminder is a non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels.
We are a modern “museum” that helps making the world understandable, using Internet".

Bio-Network.org

"Bio-Network.org is a network for scientists and the community to discover and share scholary and popular content in biology, in the applied life sciences agriculture, horticulture and forestry, in the earth sciences, and in the environmental sciences".

The users are invited to vote on the bookmarks of research papers and science feeds. You could easily see how many digs each research paper or feed has gotten. To be able to dig you have to register and make a username and password.

Google book search mobilized

Yet another Google product, Google Books, has been mobilized and perfectly shaped to our users small handheld devices. It ran smooth but a bit slow on my iPhone but it is a huge amount of data being processed relatively quick.

Free online travel guides-arrivalguides.com

If you search the web you will find a huge number of free online travel resources. Arrivalguides.com is just one of many examples. The small travel guides from arrivalguides.com could be downloaded in PDF format.
Use this bookmarklet and search for a city and you might find an available guide. The guides are available in different languages but default language is english.

A wish you all a good journey!

Or simply try and find travelguides in PDF by searching Google and limit to filetype:PDF. Type your city of destination.

DCPL iPhone application for a library

"To my knowledge, this is the first iPhone application put out by a library. A big congrats to DCPL CIO Chris Tonjes who assembled a great team, and a big thanks to Brian Farmer for his coding skills, Bill McClendon for his knowledge of the SirsiDynix backend and Gilbert Luwaile for testing. You can read more about all of them at the DCPL Labs Staff page"[http://www.walkingpaper.org/1100]

Could be downloaded from App Store here:

WikiTap for iPhone

A really great free app for the iPhone is WikiTap making it possible to search wikipedia articles nearby your current position, today in history and also lists recently added media. You could save photos and videos to your iPhone and keep and add and hold it all organized through the MyMedia Tab. A truely remarkable and easy to use application.

Thumbs Up!

Gizmodo's Essential iPhone Apps

Here comes Gizmodo's Essential iPhone App list.

Ouagadougou - vennlighetens by

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A norwegian book about the capital of Burkina Faso. 100 norwegian kroner of each book being sold is going to be used on the children of Ouagadougou. In one of the poorest countries in the world this could be a chance for the children to get a proper education, medical treatment and give them some cultural experiences. You could read more about the project here. (all written in norwegian).

Coming of Age in Second Life

Coming of Age in Second Life:
An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human
Tom Boellstorff


Tom Boellstorff spent more than two years of field research in Second Life. He conducted his field research as the avatar 'Tom Bukowski'.

"Coming of Age in Second Life shows how virtual worlds can change ideas about identity and society. Bringing anthropology into territory never before studied, this book demonstrates that in some ways humans have always been virtual, and that virtual worlds in all their rich complexity build upon a human capacity for culture that is as old as humanity itself".

NNDB tracking the entire world

"NNDB is an intelligence aggregator that tracks the activities of people we have determined to be noteworthy, both living and dead. Superficially, it seems much like a "Who's Who" where a noted person's curriculum vitae is available (the usual information such as date of birth, a biography, and other essential facts.)" [http://www.nndb.com/]

Journey of Mankind

Journey of Mankind:A virtual global journey of modern man over the last 160.000 years. The map shows the interaction of migration and climate over this period. A fascinating journey.

Sozialistische Cowboys:

Friedrich von Borries, Jens-Uwe Fischer: Sozialistische Cowboys:
ISBN:978-3-518-12528-1

I came across a article talking about this book in one of Norways leading newspapers, Dagbladet.
This book is discussing a totally unknown phenomenon in my knowledge of the DDR (East Germany) history, several east germans living like indians in reservation camps. Being an indian ment making it possible to be part of a subculture contrary to the communist regime. It was a sort of free haven for other expressions. Living like indians ment adapting indian behavior and customs and also trying to learn native language. It was estimated that between 2000-3000 east germans was totally commited to living the indian lifestyle, meaning a full time "job".
Quite a fascinating part of history. I haven't had the chance to read the book yet so this is all based on the earlier mentioned article. I will definetly read the book and make sure that my library orders a copy.

Pipl

Pipl: The most comprehensive people search on the web?
Quite a different result list and layout compared to other search engines. I am pleased with the results.

Pambazuka News-A review of African blogs

In the great resource Pambazuka News (once mentioned in an earlier blog posting) Dibussi Tandi has reviewed some selected african blogs on the 15th of January this year. Good and interesting reading material.....
Pambazuka News is also available on Twitter.

One Of todays Classified Books

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Handbook of critical and indigenous methodologies / editors Norman K. Denzin, Yvonna S. Lincoln, Linda Tuhiwai Smith

NTNU library toolbar version 0.3.1

The NTNU Library Toolbar has reached version 0.3.1. My good colleague Rurik Greenall,also a member of UBIT2010, has given the old NTNU Library Toolbar, previously compatible with the 2x versions of Firefox, a good old dust cleaning.
Here is the new version.

iPhone's GPS and local awareness

From the Appstore you will find a huge collection of applications taking use of the built in iPhone GPS. Based on your location, if you give the application permission to locate you, will give you filtered information about your surroundings.
A good example is the application WikiMe giving you information about close by location from the main source Wikipedia.
This local awareness application are divided into different categories. I will give you a small list of some of them:

Yr.no - Weather forecast
Local Picks- Restaurant guide
ClickonRadio- Radio stations
WikiMe- See above description

Just try to type GPS when searching Appstore and you will find several more.

Google Earth Outreach

Google Earth Outreach:"Lots of non-profits are using Google Earth to tell their stories. You can read here about some specific groups' goals, challenges and best practices, and the overall impact of visualizing their work in Google Earth". [quote: http://earth.google.com/outreach/case_studies.html]

My First Lifecast

This is my first posting using the lifecast app for iPhone from Appstore. Pretty easy to use. Give it av try.

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Yet another iPhone apps review site

iusethis is a great iPhone apps review site giving you a small idea what is lurking behind all those different AppStore apps and other apps.
Check it out...

iPhone apps review

At this web site you will find several reviews of iPhone/iPod Touch apps.A great site helping you to pick the good apps.

Simplify Media-iPhone/iPod Touch

A bit off the academic track I have to mention the great appstore application Simplify Media making it possible to stream and share music from your pc running a client on both your pc and iPhone/iPod Touch, no more worrying about enough storage space on your iPhone/iPod Touch. It working with Windows, Mac and Linux.

Geography Network Explorer-Geographic applications

"Geography Network Explorer: Find references to hundreds of custom geographic applications that can be accessed online. Applications published by all levels of government as well as the commercial sector provide access to a broad set of geographic information".

Test you geography skills

Here you could try your geography knowledge by trying to place different countries on the right place on the map.

Podcast Alley

A huge directory for available online podcasts. I have tried to narrow my list of podcasts to:

African Studies
Anthropology
and
Geography

BIBSYS and Google Books

The norwegian library database BIBSYS has posted some information about the export of the bibsys catalogue metadata to Google books and the finding of this catalogue metadata through Google Books search, it all written in norwegian.

Open Access Anthropology

About:

This is the blog for Open Access Anthropology, an organization of volunteers interested in creating open access alternatives to anthropological publications. This blog will be the news outlet for the organization where we will announce news like current events progress within the discipline.

The actual blog you could find here.

LibraryThing and books tagged anthropology

The anthropology tag and its aliases is used 45,236 times by 6,184 users. Take a look yourself and see if you find some interesting reviews.

Anthropology and food

A topic quite popular to study among anthropologists is the world of food. At NTNU library you could find most of the books at 394.12 in our dewey collection.

Some titles:

visualanthropology.net

visualanthropology.net. A site with News and Resources for Visual Anthropology. Ethnodoc Web TV is one of many resources.
The resources are not free, but could be obtained by making a "small" donation.

MITOPENCOURSEWARE-Anthropology

MITOPENCOURSEWARE for Anthropology has some good resources worth checking out (and its free), lecture notes,study materials etc.

Digital Ethnography @ Kansas State University

Digital Ethnography @ Kansas State University.The project coordinator is Dr. Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Digital Ethnography. A Kansas State University working group led by Dr. Michael Wesch dedicated to exploring and extending the possibilities of digital ethnography.

Afrigator

Afrigator: African blogs,video,photos and social media. A mix of everything. A great look inside what's happening in the african blogging sphere.

Microsoft and iPhone

Microsoft Live Labs has launched Seadragon Mobile på iPhone.With the help of Seadragon you can now see giga-pixel images on your iPhone.You can browse Deep Zoom Images that you can create from your own pictures or your Photosynth collection (or anybody else's).Seadragon Mobile is available for free at the iTunes App Store.

The Facebook project - Research & Resource

About the Facebook Project

The Facebook Project... has changed.

Originally started as a sociology research project by Jeff Ginger, a graduate student at the University of Illinois, the endeavor has expanded to include several researchers, students, librarians, and enthusiasts who all have an important interest in common: Facebook.

This website is a hub to our intellect. Our efforts are specialized and yet reflect a measure of cognitive diversity; our collective aim is to help visitors better document, understand, and employ Facebook.com and its many impacts and implications. We hope to provide through this website an effective resource for researchers, educators, and librarians. The persons involved come from backgrounds including anthropology, sociology, library and information science, human-computer interactions, psychology, and more. Each contributor has his or her own areas of study and all of us join forces in shared interests.

Hooraayy YouTube is working again

YouTube is working again on norwegian iPhone/iPod Touch. After having wondered quite a while about what was wrong the YouTube service has finally started to work again.

One huge annoying problem with the norwegian iPhone/iPod Touch

It's one huge annoying problem with the norwegian iPhone/iPod Touch. For several weeks the YouTube service has not been working. The only way around the problem seem to be to change language settings, then the YouTube service (videos) work like a dream. Why?
Sure you have a lot of other video applications for iPhone/iPod Touch but none of them having such a huge amount of videos as YouTube.
Is their a normal way fixing the problem without jailbreaking my device?

iPhone/iPod Touch firmware 2.2 security fixes

It's not only just those new features that will give you a reason to upgrade to firmware 2.2, also a lot of security fixes is been handled with the new upgrade, Apple has listed the fxes here.

Ubuntu 8.04 on you Asus Eee PC

Why not change the default Xandros linux distribution to Ubuntu 8.04 which gives your Eee Pc more flexibility. Ubuntu 8.04 for the Eee Pc could be downloaded from here. Another nice feature that's easier to use under the Ubuntu 8.04 linux platform than Xandros is the CNR client one-click install of programs, meaning that you don't have to use the terminal window or go through Synaptic download manager to install programs.

Air Mouse for iPod Touch/iPhone.

One of the best applications from Appstore is the Air Mouse. Control your Pc or Mac applications with Air Mouse through wifi. Air Mouse instantly transforms your iPhone or iPod touch into an in air, wireless mouse for your computer!

Firmware 2.2 for iPhone and iPod Touch was released today.

Firmware 2.2 for iPhone and iPod Touch was released today. Not so many new features but some you might notice at once when opening your safari browser, the navigation bar and address bar is different, other new features has been mentioned in a earlier blog posting.

pTerm

pTerm is a very simple SSH client and xterm terminal emulator for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Version 1.0 is now available at the App Store You could for instance run BIBSYS (the norwegian library catalogue) in a terminal window.

Gerry McKiernan presentation- Internet Librarian 2008 (October 18 2008)

Gerry McKiernan on his blog "Friends: Social Networking Sites for Engaged Library Services" is saying: "I’m pleased to announce that a corrected / revised / expanded version of my pre-conference workshop presentation for Internet Librarian 2008 (October 18 2008)" is now available,here.The presentation has actually 204 slides, "huge".

Some interesting new features in iPhone/iPod Touch firmware 2.2

Here is a list of some of the expected new features in firmware 2.2. Probably features enough worth waiting for?

Earthscape a Google Earth-like iPhone App

Earthscape is the world's first virtual globe application for mobile devices available now for the iPhone, iPhone 3G, and iPod Touch through App Store. A really great application that you have to try.

Geography and GIS Enter a Second Life

A interesting article about the increasing presence of GIS in Second Life.

Internet Librarian Conference 2008 in London

I am back from the Internet Librarian Conference 2008 in London. A mixed experience, but some interesting sessions. The most disappointing was that some of the sessions had to be cancelled due to the fact that some people didn't turn up. Two days packed with librarians, sessions about "emerging technology" and social mingling in the afternoon and evening. A bit disappointing that the social events lacked any organization at all. One of the best sessions at the conference was being held by my good colleague Rurik Thomas Greenall, focusing directly on the term "emerging technologies".

XML in libraries

Eric Lease Morgan has made a great introduction workshop about the use of XML in libraries, look here.Eric Lease Morgan also has a blog.

Facebook and students

I have tried to create Facebook groups in relationship with my introduction courses on how to use library resources. Why? It's a well known fact that very few students use our library portal and our gateway to qualitative good information resources. So my idea was to meet some of the students on their homeground, most students already have a profile on Facebook so it's no extra effort on their part in getting hold of the information on this groups. I sent a direct url to the Facebook groups to all of the students participating in my introduction courses and one direct url was posted by a teacher inside our learning management system "It's Learning".

It's to early to evaluate the result, but 26 students, spread over 3 different courses,has actively joined these groups and shown interest in the links that I have shared with them and that's very uplifting. Here is a small (more) detailed report about the "experiment" written in norwegian.