Archive for July, 2009

How to watch BBC iPlayer shows outside the UK | Cherie Hurwitz

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

Handy guide to watching BBC programming as if from inside the UK. Geographic rights are gettting kinda quaint… Visit How to watch BBC iPlayer shows outside the UK | Cherie Hurwitz

Personal Archiving HOPPLA Assumptions and Design Decisions

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

Visit Personal Archiving HOPPLA Assumptions and Design Decisions

Discovering Digital Content in the Age of Peer-to-Peer

Friday, July 10th, 2009

The rise of peer-to-peer networks has dramatically altered the way consumers interact with digital content … transform[ing] the purpose of each download and the way consumers discover the content they want…recent empirical evidence suggests that discovery processes play a commercially significant role, even providing a boost to sales that can sometimes overwhelm the direct substitution [...]

HTML 5: Ogg Theora Vs H.264 In The Battle For A Web Video Standard

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

Techcrunch summarizes some of the issues… Visit HTML 5: Ogg Theora Vs H.264 In The Battle For A Web Video Standard

Trouble at NARA

Monday, July 6th, 2009

AP reports on theft of materials from NARA. Visit Trouble at NARA

EndNote maker’s lawsuit over open-source Zotero dismissed – Ars Technica

Monday, July 6th, 2009

Missed this when it went by. One more excellent reason for universities to discourage the use of EndNote and encourage Zotero. Citation management is one of those seemingly simple but really hard problems (like group calendaring), and while Zotero doesn't do it all for me yet, I'm hoping that it will… Visit EndNote maker’s lawsuit [...]

Television for extraterrestrials

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

They's seen the Sopranos and Sponge Bob around Sirius by now, and Star Trek around Arcturus…. Visit Television for extraterrestrials

Online Video and the Future of Broadcasting