Silicon Alley Insider reports that USA.gov (the official federal government portal) has gone live with a blog using Tumblr in addition to their Gov Gab blog.
Other Places To Find USA.gov
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+ YouTube
+ Mobile
See Also: Directory of U.S. Government Blogs
See Also: Directory of U.S. Government RSS Feeds
Note: The State of Rhode Island is/was also using Tumblr
U.S. Government Using Tumblr
Slides, Notes, and Tweets From Day One of the 2011 Personal Digital Archiving Conference
The 2011 Personal Digital Archiving Conference began on Thursday at the Internet Archive in San Francisco.
You can find the complete conference schedule here.
+ Tweets from the conference are using the hashtag #pda2011.
+ Session Notes by Diana Wakimoto (via The Waki Librarian)
Hat Tips & Thanks: Bill Lefurgy and Scott Rosenberg
More reports, live blogs, pictures, etc. via Twitter.
Presenters/Presentations Day One
+ Slides “Charting Collections of Connections in Social Media” by Marc A. Smith
+ Slides: “Open Standards For Social Data Exchange And Archiving” by Evan Prodromou
+ Slides: (The Digital Beyond): The Lost Curator: Personal Digital Archives and the Death Transition by Evan Carroll (The Digital Beyond_
+ Slides: The Splendiferous Story Of Archive Team And The Rapidly Disappearing Digital Heritage by Jason Scott (Archive Team)
+ Slides: Curating Digital Intellectual Lives by Ellysa Stern Cahoy & Scott McDonald (Penn State University Library)
+ Slides: The Smallest Day: A Nerd and his Dad Set out to Digitize the Family Archives by Stan James (Lijit Networks)
Updates to This Post as We Learn of Slides and Other Materials
Please let us know if you learn where to access the materials from the presentations listed below.
Email: infodocket AT gmail.com
+ Brewster Kahle (The Internet Archive)
+ Keynote: Cathy Marshall (Microsoft Research)
+ Gary Wright (FamilySearch)
+ Jeremy Leighton John (British Library, Digital Lives)
+ Judith Zissman (Independent)
+ Lori Kendall (University of Illinois): What do We Mean by Personal When We Consider Personal Digital Archives?
+ Birkin James Diana (Brown University Digital Repository): Enriching the Digital Junk Drawer
+ Kathleen Legg (National Center for Atmospheric Research): Digital Collections at the NCAR Library and Archives: Archiving in the 21st Century
+ Jay Datema (Bookism) Constructing a Digital Identity Compatible with Institutional Archives
+ Ray Larson (UC Berkeley): The Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) Project
+ Ben Gross (Linde Group)
+ Jeff Ubois (PrestoCentre): Wishful Thinking
+ Steve Griffin (Library of Congress / National Science Foundation): Perspectives on Funding
+ David S.H. Rosenthal (LOCKSS)
+ Brian Fitzpatrick, DataLiberation.Org
+ Video Archive and Tweets from the 2010 Conference at the bottom of this INFOdocket post.
David Rothman On a National Digital-Library System
David Rothman has been talking and writing about e-books, digital libraries, and related topics for a long time. He was the founder of TeleRead, a site that focuses on ebooks, ereaders, and related topics that’s now run Paul Biba.
Rothman is also a cofounder (with Tom Peters) of the new, LibraryCity.org. Here’s a bit of background about the group from their web site:
A national digital library initiative is underway at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, and we hope it will lead to a genuine public library system online serving the entire country, not just the elite—even though we’re also in favor of well-funded research libraries. The new LibraryCity is an ad hoc group focused on these goals. If you’re in a rural area, don’t let “City” scare you—in the virtual world everyone should be able to enjoy “urban” amenities.
Rothman recently has this commentary published by The Chronicle of Higher Education about the development of a national digital library. It’s must read material. He has done an excellent job asking many important questions that need must be discussed and hopefully answered.
Here are a few comments from the commentary about what LibraryCity believes are important if/when a national digital library is built.
Among other things, a well-stocked online national public-library system would help make American students more competitive with their counterparts in other countries. It could also help correct the many deficiencies of library e-books today, as documented by the Chief Officers of State Library Agencies, which has wisely suggested a national buying pool to keep costs down and help libraries control their own destinies, rather than just tagging along behind vendors. A common procurement system of one kind or another would be a natural component of a national digital-library system.
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In fact, the system should offer everything such as textbooks, carefully vetted scholarly papers, user-contributed photographs, local oral histories, and multimedia job-training materials, as well as other directly practical content. We mustn’t neglect digital textbooks, multimedia, and other how-to content for students, small-business people, factory workers, and others.
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The system should allow easy and permanent linking from social networks and other Web sites, too, so that it is truly blended with the Internet, especially the parts so dear to young people. It should adhere to e-book standards, so that electronic text is readable centuries from now.
That’s only a small portion of David Rothman’s 33oo word column.
You can access the full text here.
Reference: Legal: Pocket Guide for Federal Judges Discusses Sealed Cases
From an Administrative Office of the U.S. Court Announcement:
A recently published pocket guide for federal judges focuses on the occasional need to seal court records and proceedings.
Published by the Federal Judicial Center, the 22-page pocket guide draws on the voluminous case law to discuss the process courts use to keep some of the proceedings and records confidential.
The guide states: “Essential to the rule of law is the public performance of the judicial function. On occasion, however, there are good reasons for courts to keep parts of some proceedings confidential . . . Usually that means that any transcript made of the proceeding will be regarded as a sealed record.”
The guide (pdf) offers a procedural checklist of considerations when a record is sealed or when a proceeding is closed to the public.
Greg Notess On "How to Find Bing's New Cache Link Location"
Super searcher, super librarian, and super sleuth Greg Notess provides a screencast about how to locate the new spot where Bing has placed the link to access cached copies of pages.
The screencast is embedded on Greg’s Search Engine Showdown blog.
Facebook Reaches Majority of US Web Users, What About Twitter?
As Facebook continues to solidify its role as the world’s top social networking site, eMarketer estimates that more than half of internet users in the US were logging on to the site at least monthly as of the end of 2010.
This year, eMarketer forecasts, 132.5 million US web users will use the site. That increase of 13.4% in the number of users means Facebook will reach almost nine in 10 social network users and 57.1% of internet users. By 2013, 62% of web users and almost half (47.6%) of the overall US population will be on Facebook.
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Facebook’s broad reach means that its once-dramatic growth rates are over; eMarketer forecasts single-digit growth in users after this year. On Twitter, growth rates will be higher, but relatively few online Americans use the microblogging service.
By the end of 2010, 16.4 million US adults, or 9% of the adult internet population, used Twitter. Growth will surpass 26% this year as Twitter reaches 11% of internet users and 16.5% of US adult social network users. By 2013, nearly 28 million Americans will be tweeting.
The report also includes two tables:
1. US Facebook Users and Penetration, 2009-2013
2. US Adult Twitter Users and Penetration, 2009-2013
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