From a Blog Post by Peter Mika:
The data shows that the usage of RDFa has increased 510% between March, 2009 and October, 2010, from 0.6% of webpages to 3.6% of webpages (or 430 million webpages in our sample of 12 billion). This is largely thanks to the efforts of the folks at Yahoo! (SearchMonkey), Google (Rich Snippets) and Facebook (Open Graph), all of whom recommend the usage of RDFa. The deployment of microformats has not advanced significantly in the same period, except for the hatom microformat.
More info and a bar graph are included.
Peter Mika is a researcher at Yahoo Research in Barcelona.
A SemanticWeb.com post (where we read about Mika’s statistics) also points to a post about Facebook’s use of two microformats.
Use of RDFa Skyrockets! "Microformats and RDFa Deployment Across the Web"
New: Database of Top 100 Cities Economies (Gross Metropolitan Product Data)
From the Dayton Business Journal:
[The] database contains the latest gross metropolitan product (GMP) data for 366 U.S. metropolitan areas. (Click here for more information about the latest national rankings.)
GMP is the total output of goods and services within a given metro in a given year. The latest GMP figures tabulated by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis are for 2009, but are expressed in 2005 dollars to account for inflation.
The database is also available from the Buffalo Business First web site.
Online Preview Available of the Just Released “Mark Zuckerberg: The Creator of Facebook" Comic Book
First, the critically acclaimed movie, The Social Network and now Bluewater Productions has released, “Mark Zuckerberg: The Creator of Facebook” a 48 page comic book.
The Wall Street Journal Reports:
The 48 page glossy comic book, “Mark Zuckerberg: Creator of Facebook,” is scheduled to hit comic book stores today. It promises “a more balanced portrayal of Zuckerberg” than the movie, according to the publisher, Bluewater Productions.
The writer of the comic book, Jerome Maida, told Digits that he originally thought it would be challenging to write a biography of such a young subject (Zuckerberg turns 27 years old this May), but ended up writing almost twice as much as he anticipated. The Facebook founder is “responsible for something that has revolutionized the world-wide culture and changed a lot of people’s lives,” Maida said. Maida is a former staff reporter for the Philadelphia Daily News and currently working as a freelance journalist.
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A Facebook spokesperson told Digits, “We’ve said all we’re going to say about the movie and the books. We’ve moved on from this discussion, and we think others have, too.”
A 16 page preview of the comic is available online from Business Insider.
Here’s Some Additional Info from Bluewater Productions.
Want a Copy?
The special edition comic sells for $6.99 and is available through comic book shops. Need to find a nearby shop? Head to www.comicshoplocator.com.
IGI Global Announces Launch Of Advances in Library Information Science (ALIS) Newsletter
From an IGI Global News Release (via E-Mail):
IGI Global, an international publishing company specializing in high-quality research publications on all aspects of information technology management, is proud to announce the launch of its Advances in Library Information Science (ALIS) Newsletter. To be updated on a quarterly basis, the newsletter will draw attention to high-quality, research-oriented content from the forthcoming ALIS book series, covering the ongoing developments and trends affecting libraries in the United States and around the world. The first issue will be published in early March 2011.
Each newsletter will be centered on a specific theme and tied to a publication in the ALIS book series, covering topics related to the advancement of 21st century librarianship such as e-reference discoverability, blogging in libraries, library space planning, evaluating information credibility, collaborative initiatives between libraries, advancement of librarian education, and digital rights management.
According to the series’ editor Mirela Roncevic, “The goal of the newsletter is to spark interest in the ALIS series by offering a free glimpse into each book’s content ahead of publication. The edited, article-like versions of the essays featured in the newsletter serve to inform on the most pressing library topics, while those appearing in the books—equipped with citations, references, and other tools of scholarly value—serve as primers for a new generation of library and information science professionals.”
You can subscribe to the free newsletter on this page.
WSJ: A Review of the OverDrive App for Borrowing eBooks
Get out your library cards: Now you can wirelessly download electronic books from your local library using the Apple iPad or an Android tablet.
Last week, OverDrive Inc. released OverDrive Media Console for the iPad, a free app from Apple’s App Store. With the app, you can now borrow eBooks for reading on the go with a tablet.
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Before you go hunting for your library card, there are a few factors to consider. While there are positives to borrowing eBooks from a library, the process has significant limitations that can be frustrating.
Source: Wall Street Journal
New: "Seattle Payroll Database: What Do City Workers Earn?"
The Puget Sound Business Journal has made a salary database available for the City of Seattle workers.
[You can access the] salary of any city worker and see how the salary changed from 2007 to 2010. You can enter a full or partial name. The database has more than 40,000 records, so it may take a moment to load.
To see a list of all employees, leave all fields blank and press search. The list that appears can be sorted by clicking on the column headings. Click on the “Annual Rate” heading to see who earns the most.
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