[CODE4LIB] Yale Medical Library Launches Website for iPhone
Hi guys, Just to let you know that we at the Yale Cushing/Whitney Medical Library have just launched a mobile website for iPhone and iPod touch. Please take a look at: http://www.med.yale.edu/library/m/ Best regards, Hongbin Liu Web Services Librarian Cushing/Whitney Medical Library Yale University [EMAIL PROTECTED] 203-785-3969
[CODE4LIB] New group advocates for FOSS in libraries
http://www.linux.com/feature/134393 P -- Phil Cryer Open Source Development Missouri Botanical Garden
Re: [CODE4LIB] New group advocates for FOSS in libraries
Phil Cryer wrote: http://www.linux.com/feature/134393 Meaning, new group advocates that libraries distribute FOSS, which I get, but didn't we have some people doing that five or ten years ago? And if your goal is to make open source projects accessible to more people, why on earth start them off with an operating system and then make them pick among four of them (quick, explain the difference between Fedora and Knoppix)? And OpenOffice always makes me want to apologize and say that *most* open source alternatives are really a lot better than that. -- Thomas Dowling [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [CODE4LIB] planet.code4lib.org -- 3 suggestions
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Jodi Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a big fan of the planet aggregator. Normally I make suggestions on #code4lib. However, Jonathan Rochkind asked me to bring them up onlist this time. (Who besides Jonathan is managing the planet at present?) (1) Bjorn Tipling suggested removing him, since he's going to focus on politics: Some of the places where my blog is being tracked, such as code4lib and netlamers, might want to look at whether or not they want to continue to follow me. http://bjorn.tipling.com/2008/05/17/blog-pundits/ Can we remove his blog please? (2) I'd really like a changelog--which might further justify adding/dropping blogs without discussion. (3) Could we please label blogs consistently? For individuals, we have mostly lastname, firstname with a few firstname lastname. Either way works. But the mixture rankles (sad, I know!). I agree with all of these suggestions. I'd add one more: (4) Automatically truncate posts after X words. The scroll gets so long and it is hard to find some of the posts that conform to what I think of the original idea of RSS was (a brief description of the content, not the whole item). Edward Thanks! -Jodi Jodi Schneider Science Library Specialist Amherst College 413-542-2076
Re: [CODE4LIB] planet.code4lib.org -- 3 suggestions
No one other than me is managing it at present. Pretty much the only 'management' I do is adding blogs whenever someone asks me too. (I also did just a bit of fine-tuning of the CSS for the html version). I think it may be the planet software that decides what order to display lastname and firstname, but feel free to email me ones that are displaying oddly, and I'll see if I can fix them. I'm not going to get into serious hacking of the planet software though, or replacing it with other software (I _maybe_ could be convinced to upgrade it if there's an upgrade available). (if anyone else wants to do any of that stuff, raise your hand on the list, and we can probably get you access). An unanswered question is when or if the community ever expects me to _remove_ blogs from the planet. It's not clear. I don't want to remove them if people are going to see it as an abuse of power or something, as some have indicated they would. (Most could probably care less either way). Other blogs people have suggested I remove from the code4lib aggregator, as consisting of mainly nontopical content for code4lib, are Mark Lindner and Meredith Farkas. I guess say so if you'd like to LEAVE those on the aggregator, and if nobody says so, I'll leave them. If someone does say so... then I have no idea. :) Jonathan Jodi Schneider wrote: I'm a big fan of the planet aggregator. Normally I make suggestions on #code4lib. However, Jonathan Rochkind asked me to bring them up onlist this time. (Who besides Jonathan is managing the planet at present?) (1) Bjorn Tipling suggested removing him, since he's going to focus on politics: Some of the places where my blog is being tracked, such as code4lib and netlamers, might want to look at whether or not they want to continue to follow me. http://bjorn.tipling.com/2008/05/17/blog-pundits/ Can we remove his blog please? (2) I'd really like a changelog--which might further justify adding/dropping blogs without discussion. (3) Could we please label blogs consistently? For individuals, we have mostly lastname, firstname with a few firstname lastname. Either way works. But the mixture rankles (sad, I know!). Thanks! -Jodi Jodi Schneider Science Library Specialist Amherst College 413-542-2076 -- Jonathan Rochkind Digital Services Software Engineer The Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University 410.516.8886 rochkind (at) jhu.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] planet.code4lib.org -- 3 suggestions
I'd guess I'd be fine removing Bjorn as he's changing the focus of his blog and he's suggested we actually remove him. I don't necessarily agree with removing either Meredith or Mark's blogs. Sure, those two might have more personal content, but there are certainly others on there that have done that as well. Better solution seems to be just truncating the posts. (Or offering a full and truncated feed). If there's a particular person who you don't like, then filter it out with Yahoo pipes or something similar. A change log might be useful as well if it's not too much of a hassle to maintain. What software does the planet run on? Some sort of drupal module? Jon Gorman Original message Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 17:31:03 -0400 From: Jonathan Rochkind [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] planet.code4lib.org -- 3 suggestions To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU No one other than me is managing it at present. Pretty much the only 'management' I do is adding blogs whenever someone asks me too. (I also did just a bit of fine-tuning of the CSS for the html version). I think it may be the planet software that decides what order to display lastname and firstname, but feel free to email me ones that are displaying oddly, and I'll see if I can fix them. I'm not going to get into serious hacking of the planet software though, or replacing it with other software (I _maybe_ could be convinced to upgrade it if there's an upgrade available). (if anyone else wants to do any of that stuff, raise your hand on the list, and we can probably get you access). An unanswered question is when or if the community ever expects me to _remove_ blogs from the planet. It's not clear. I don't want to remove them if people are going to see it as an abuse of power or something, as some have indicated they would. (Most could probably care less either way). Other blogs people have suggested I remove from the code4lib aggregator, as consisting of mainly nontopical content for code4lib, are Mark Lindner and Meredith Farkas. I guess say so if you'd like to LEAVE those on the aggregator, and if nobody says so, I'll leave them. If someone does say so... then I have no idea. :) Jonathan Jodi Schneider wrote: I'm a big fan of the planet aggregator. Normally I make suggestions on #code4lib. However, Jonathan Rochkind asked me to bring them up onlist this time. (Who besides Jonathan is managing the planet at present?) (1) Bjorn Tipling suggested removing him, since he's going to focus on politics: Some of the places where my blog is being tracked, such as code4lib and netlamers, might want to look at whether or not they want to continue to follow me. http://bjorn.tipling.com/2008/05/17/blog-pundits/ Can we remove his blog please? (2) I'd really like a changelog--which might further justify adding/dropping blogs without discussion. (3) Could we please label blogs consistently? For individuals, we have mostly lastname, firstname with a few firstname lastname. Either way works. But the mixture rankles (sad, I know!). Thanks! -Jodi Jodi Schneider Science Library Specialist Amherst College 413-542-2076 -- Jonathan Rochkind Digital Services Software Engineer The Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University 410.516.8886 rochkind (at) jhu.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] planet.code4lib.org -- 3 suggestions
Catching up on some of Mark's posts I can see why some might want him off. Perhaps someone who's more emotionally attached to the issue of removal might just want to contact him and see if he knows he's on the list or if he wants to remain on? I realized I don't honestly care enough about the planet one way or the other. I'd be sad to see it go, but I wouldn't wail in misery. Jon Original message Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 17:31:03 -0400 From: Jonathan Rochkind [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] planet.code4lib.org -- 3 suggestions To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU No one other than me is managing it at present. Pretty much the only 'management' I do is adding blogs whenever someone asks me too. (I also did just a bit of fine-tuning of the CSS for the html version). I think it may be the planet software that decides what order to display lastname and firstname, but feel free to email me ones that are displaying oddly, and I'll see if I can fix them. I'm not going to get into serious hacking of the planet software though, or replacing it with other software (I _maybe_ could be convinced to upgrade it if there's an upgrade available). (if anyone else wants to do any of that stuff, raise your hand on the list, and we can probably get you access). An unanswered question is when or if the community ever expects me to _remove_ blogs from the planet. It's not clear. I don't want to remove them if people are going to see it as an abuse of power or something, as some have indicated they would. (Most could probably care less either way). Other blogs people have suggested I remove from the code4lib aggregator, as consisting of mainly nontopical content for code4lib, are Mark Lindner and Meredith Farkas. I guess say so if you'd like to LEAVE those on the aggregator, and if nobody says so, I'll leave them. If someone does say so... then I have no idea. :) Jonathan Jodi Schneider wrote: I'm a big fan of the planet aggregator. Normally I make suggestions on #code4lib. However, Jonathan Rochkind asked me to bring them up onlist this time. (Who besides Jonathan is managing the planet at present?) (1) Bjorn Tipling suggested removing him, since he's going to focus on politics: Some of the places where my blog is being tracked, such as code4lib and netlamers, might want to look at whether or not they want to continue to follow me. http://bjorn.tipling.com/2008/05/17/blog-pundits/ Can we remove his blog please? (2) I'd really like a changelog--which might further justify adding/dropping blogs without discussion. (3) Could we please label blogs consistently? For individuals, we have mostly lastname, firstname with a few firstname lastname. Either way works. But the mixture rankles (sad, I know!). Thanks! -Jodi Jodi Schneider Science Library Specialist Amherst College 413-542-2076 -- Jonathan Rochkind Digital Services Software Engineer The Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University 410.516.8886 rochkind (at) jhu.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] planet.code4lib.org -- 3 suggestions
I wonder if the planet can be configured to display only blog posts that have certain tag(s)? This, of course, would be effective only if the blog owners agree to help by adding extra tag(s) on their blog posts. If they agree and the configuration can be done, only relevant topics would be displayed on the planet. I also support truncating the posts. thanks, ranti. On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Jonathan Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd guess I'd be fine removing Bjorn as he's changing the focus of his blog and he's suggested we actually remove him. I don't necessarily agree with removing either Meredith or Mark's blogs. Sure, those two might have more personal content, but there are certainly others on there that have done that as well. Better solution seems to be just truncating the posts. (Or offering a full and truncated feed). If there's a particular person who you don't like, then filter it out with Yahoo pipes or something similar. A change log might be useful as well if it's not too much of a hassle to maintain. What software does the planet run on? Some sort of drupal module? Jon Gorman -- Bulk mail. Postage paid.
Re: [CODE4LIB] planet.code4lib.org -- 3 suggestions
Just wanted to mention that Mark (Lindner) *does* know his blog is linked from planet code4lib. He didn't ask for it to be, it was just linked, and quite a while ago. I've asked about having my blog linked there too but I definitely don't intend to change the content (much of which is purposefully personal or non-library related) to accomodate other's reading interests. I think I had a conversation with Ed Summers quite a while ago and he encouraged me to go ahead and request it be added but I never followed through. I'd be ok with Ranti's suggestion but I personally feel that placing some sort of onus on blog authors isn't a great solution. I sort through 100s of threads every day and am quite happy ignoring ones on topics that aren't on point or what I am looking for and I think this would be ok for planet code4lib as well. $.02 from a lurker. Steve On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Jonathan Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Catching up on some of Mark's posts I can see why some might want him off. Perhaps someone who's more emotionally attached to the issue of removal might just want to contact him and see if he knows he's on the list or if he wants to remain on? I realized I don't honestly care enough about the planet one way or the other. I'd be sad to see it go, but I wouldn't wail in misery. Jon Original message Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 17:31:03 -0400 From: Jonathan Rochkind [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] planet.code4lib.org -- 3 suggestions To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU No one other than me is managing it at present. Pretty much the only 'management' I do is adding blogs whenever someone asks me too. (I also did just a bit of fine-tuning of the CSS for the html version). I think it may be the planet software that decides what order to display lastname and firstname, but feel free to email me ones that are displaying oddly, and I'll see if I can fix them. I'm not going to get into serious hacking of the planet software though, or replacing it with other software (I _maybe_ could be convinced to upgrade it if there's an upgrade available). (if anyone else wants to do any of that stuff, raise your hand on the list, and we can probably get you access). An unanswered question is when or if the community ever expects me to _remove_ blogs from the planet. It's not clear. I don't want to remove them if people are going to see it as an abuse of power or something, as some have indicated they would. (Most could probably care less either way). Other blogs people have suggested I remove from the code4lib aggregator, as consisting of mainly nontopical content for code4lib, are Mark Lindner and Meredith Farkas. I guess say so if you'd like to LEAVE those on the aggregator, and if nobody says so, I'll leave them. If someone does say so... then I have no idea. :) Jonathan Jodi Schneider wrote: I'm a big fan of the planet aggregator. Normally I make suggestions on #code4lib. However, Jonathan Rochkind asked me to bring them up onlist this time. (Who besides Jonathan is managing the planet at present?) (1) Bjorn Tipling suggested removing him, since he's going to focus on politics: Some of the places where my blog is being tracked, such as code4lib and netlamers, might want to look at whether or not they want to continue to follow me. http://bjorn.tipling.com/2008/05/17/blog-pundits/ Can we remove his blog please? (2) I'd really like a changelog--which might further justify adding/dropping blogs without discussion. (3) Could we please label blogs consistently? For individuals, we have mostly lastname, firstname with a few firstname lastname. Either way works. But the mixture rankles (sad, I know!). Thanks! -Jodi Jodi Schneider Science Library Specialist Amherst College 413-542-2076 -- Jonathan Rochkind Digital Services Software Engineer The Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University 410.516.8886 rochkind (at) jhu.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] planet.code4lib.org -- 3 suggestions
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Edward M. Corrado [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree with all of these suggestions. I'd add one more: (4) Automatically truncate posts after X words. I hope we don't do this. I really like being able to read the post in my feed rather than having to click through to read it. My 2 cents... Kevin
Re: [CODE4LIB] planet.code4lib.org -- 3 suggestions
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Steve Oberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've asked about having my blog linked there too but I definitely don't intend to change the content (much of which is purposefully personal or non-library related) to accomodate other's reading interests. I think I had a conversation with Ed Summers quite a while ago and he encouraged me to go ahead and request it be added but I never followed through. Yikes, can someone add Steve's blog to the planet :-) http://www.familymanlibrarian.com/ //Ed
