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Audio Interview: New Superintendent of Docs, Mary Alice Baish, Talks GPO Digitization Plans
| Digital Preservation, Interviews, Libraries, News, Profiles
The Government Printing Office is expanding the number of historic documents you can access online. They’re partnering with the Library of Congress to digitize all sorts of records, some dating to the 1800s. This includes official congressional debates and laws like the Freedom of Information Act. Mary Alice Baish, GPO’s Superintendent of Documents, explains the […]
Canada: Television Archives: TVO Launches Digital Public Archive Online
| Archives and Special Collections, Interviews, News, Podcasts
TVO, public/educational television from Ontario, has just launched a new online video archive with material their first 40 years of broadcasting. At the present time the archive ncludes over 325 programs and segments with more to come. You can keyword search for shows or browse collections or the most viewed programs, programs new to the […]
Lists & Rankings: 2011 Most Innovative Companies from Fast Company
| Interviews, News, Profiles, Resources
Direct to 2011 Most Innovative Companies Homepage 50 Companies are Listed. Top 10 Companies 1. Apple 2. Twitter 3. Facebook 4. Nissan 5. Groupon 6. Google 7. Dawning Information Industry 8. Netflix 9. Zynga 10. Epocrates When you click on a company’s name you’ll be taken to a bit of directory info (total revenues, Twitter […]
From the Interview: “You shouldn’t really use Wikipedia as the sole source for anything, ever. You shouldn’t use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view, ” [says Wales.] He is, in fact, generally dismissive of traditional modes of authority – peer-reviewed journals, the requirement for strings of letters after names. “I think […]
2011 Horizon Report on Emerging Technologies Published
| Associations and Organizations, Interviews, Journal Articles, News
From an EDUCAUSE News Release Today, the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) and the New Media Consortium (NMC) released the 2011 Horizon Report, the eighth edition of this annual joint publication. Each year, the Horizon Report describes six areas of emerging technology that will have significant impact on higher education and creative expression over the next […]
