What a cool chart! COLOURlovers lists all of the original crayola colors (shows the color, gives the name) with corresponding hex and RGB numbers. Sorry print designers, you are SOL. :)
From Wired.com, interesting insight into what Steve Jobs thinks about Flash (it’s crap), Google (it’s evil), and Adobe (it’s lazy).
I hope it’s not too late to tell you that this week’s guest blogger on boingboing is famous-and-cool librarian, Jessamyn West.
So far, she’s hit awesome school photos spanning 80 years, the nastiness of pine nut mouth, illuminated manuscripts packed with demons, and the joys of exclusive contract deals of library database vendors. And by joy I mean not-joy.
And more, of course. So check out boingboing all this week (and next?) for more of her posts.
Two videos about learning by thinking of or seeing things differently.
things to learn from Matt Edgar on Vimeo.
(both via SwissMiss)
Assistive Technology Used by CSU Students, from the CSU-sponsored Meet the Experts series, features Melissa Repa (Sac State) and Scott Kupferman (Sonoma State) and focuses on live demonstrations of assistive technology used at Long Beach State and a demonstration of “Coll@borATe,” a searchable database of assistive technology information.
It requires downloading software to view.
And what makes a book a book? We seem to be pondering this a lot lately at the library and I’m guessing we’ll be pondering it for a few more years yet. E-books, audio books, regular books, bookies. Wait. I know one of those for sure is not a book.
Today, NPR ponders it as well in their segment In An Era Of Immediacy, Why Fear The E-Book?
People often ask me how I find about about x, y, and/or z online. I typically don’t go out hunting for things; I simply have certain online folks that I pay attention to. This has served me well and has got me in the early doors of web design, the dot-com boom, and many of the 2.0 goodies like Flickr, Twitter, delicious, etc. These are the people who are making things happen, know people who are making things happen, or who the powers turn to make things happen.
One of those people is George Oates. She was the original designer of the Flickr interface and spearheaded Flickr Commons, an online photographical archive of many of the worlds great treasure troves of Special Collections.
Now George is at Open Library and I share this with you so that you, o wise library and technical brethren, can keep an eye on it. Get involved with it. Help it out. Help it grow. Contribute, participate, share, and foster.
Open Library is a site creating a web page for every book ever published. A project of the non-profit Internet Archive and funded in part by a California State Library grant, they still need help. They need your help.
So help them and, in turn, help yourself.
San Luis Obispo High School is accepting e-Waste this Saturday and Sunday. This is a great way to get rid of your wired-but-tired gizmos cluttering your garages and storage spaces. This is FREE to the public and benefits the SLOHS band and technology club.
What can you recycle? Televisions, monitors, computers, computer components, fax machines, printers, copiers, toner cartridges, wire, video game consoles, laptops, cameras, camcorders, internet devices, keyboards, mice, MP3 players, VCRs, DVD players, cell phones and telephone equipment.
When and where? Sat., Jan 16 and Sun, Jan 17 from 10am to 4pm at the SLOHS parking lot.
More info?
- Download the PDF (and share it!)
- Email info@neuwaste.com
- Call 310.734.6700
Very interesting article from the NYT about the differences between the “iGen” and the “NetGen” and how even a couple of years between siblings can be very big differences in how they approach technology and privacy.
- The Children of Cyberspace: Old Fogies by Their 20s from the NYT (thanks Anna!)
Interesting statistical information sent in by Marisa Ramirez, Kennedy Library Digital Repository Librarian:
An interesting study from ECAR (Educause Center for Applied Research) was released on Oct. 22. “The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2009.”The key findings are quite interesting. Here are a few of them.
- 79% of freshmen own a laptop one year old or newer.
- 2/3 of all students report owning a desktop or laptop 2years old or newer.
- Almost 95% of students use the library website weekly.
- Over 90% students use SNS.Almost 90% students use text messaging.
- Use of instant messaging is down to 74% of students.
Thanks Marisa!
Marisa runs the DigitalCommons@CalPoly. See her Kennedy Library blog Crossing the Chasm.
