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Archive for August, 2008
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Sunday, August 31st, 2008Lists & Rankings: 2008-2009 U.S. Television Market Rankings
Sunday, August 31st, 2008The latest annual ranking of the Top 210 television markets from nielsen is now available. The official name of the list: 2008-2009 Local Television Market Universe Estimates. Includes
+ Ranking
+ Market Name
+ TV Homes
+ % of U.S.
6 pages; PDF.
Source: nielsen
Paper — Random Drift versus Selection in Academic Vocabulary: An Evolutionary Analysis of Published Keywords
Sunday, August 31st, 2008Random Drift versus Selection in Academic Vocabulary: An Evolutionary Analysis of Published Keywords
Source: PLoS ONE
The evolution of vocabulary in academic publishing is characterized via keyword frequencies recorded in the ISI Web of Science citations database. In four distinct case-studies, evolutionary analysis of keyword frequency change through time is compared to a model of random copying used as the null hypothesis, such that selection may be identified against it. The case studies from the physical sciences indicate greater selection in keyword choice than in the social sciences. Similar evolutionary analyses can be applied to a wide range of phenomena; wherever the popularity of multiple items through time has been recorded, as with web searches, or sales of popular music and books, for example.
National Hurricane Center Mobile Web Site
Sunday, August 31st, 2008Source: NHC
National Emergency Family Registry and Locator System (NEFRLS)
Sunday, August 31st, 2008Hurricane: Live Radio and TV Coverage from New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Sunday, August 31st, 2008Hurricane Gustav Coverage
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Public Interest Groups Tell Copyright Office To Stay Out of Buffer Dispute
Sunday, August 31st, 2008Public Interest Groups Tell Copyright Office To Stay Out of Buffer Dispute
The U.S. Copyright Office should allow the courts to decide the crucial issue of whether a temporary copy of a song or other copyrighted work made by a computer must be subject to copyright royalties, public interest and industry groups said today.
The Copyright Office should not try to decide the issue, a group of public interest groups led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Public Knowledge (PK) and the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) said in a filing with the Office in response to a proposed rule published July 16. In addition, Consumers Union, Consumer Federation of America, U.S. PIRG, and the Computer & Communications Industry Association also signed onto the pleading.
Source: Center for Democracy and Technology
Podcast Downloading 2008
Sunday, August 31st, 2008As gadgets with digital audio capability proliferate, podcast downloading continues to increase. Currently, 19% of all internet users say they have downloaded a podcast so they could listen to it or view it later. This most recent percentage is up from 12% of internet users who reported downloading podcasts in our August 2006 survey and 7% in our February-April 2006 survey. Still, podcasting has yet to become a fixture in the everyday lives of internet users, as very few internet users download podcasts on a typical day.
+ Full Report (PDF; 79 KB)
Source: Pew Internet & American Library Project
National Archives Publishes New Guide to WWII Records
Saturday, August 30th, 2008The National Archives announces publication of World War II: Guide to Records Relating to U.S. Military Participation compiled by retired staff archivist and subject specialist Timothy P. Mulligan. Dr. Mulligan has prepared eight previous guides and other finding aids to captured German and related records and is the author of three books, as well as more than 15 articles on World War II subjects.
Source: NARA
Google zooms past 60% market share
Friday, August 29th, 2008Comscore as well as Nielsen Netratings estimated Google’s U.S. search engine market at more than 60% in July. While the market research firms have come up with substantially different numbers for their July report, both agree that Google now runs more than three times the numbers of searches of its closest rival and more than twice the searches of Yahoo and Microsoft combined
Source: TG Daily
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“Learning From Katrina” Web Page
Friday, August 29th, 2008Today marks the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s devastating impact to New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. In commemoration, and in light of the current hurricane season, the Library of Congress announces a Web site titled “Learning from Katrina,” which provides insights for better responses to record and artifact damage by hurricanes.
On this site,
www.loc.gov/preserv/emergprep/katrinarespond.html, visitors can hear seven interviews with professional conservators who helped salvage collections affected in August 2005.
Source: Library of Congress
Windows Live Search Tricks You May Not Know About
Friday, August 29th, 20084 tips and tricks that might be of interest from the Digital Inspirations blog.
Source: Digital Inspirations
OhioLINK can cut book costs
Friday, August 29th, 2008A look at the OhioLINK ILL service.
Source: The BG News
Google to go ahead with Yahoo deal: report
Friday, August 29th, 2008Google Inc. , facing a U.S. Justice Department probe of its search-advertising partnership with Yahoo Inc. , will proceed with the agreement by early October, Bloomberg [News] said.
Source: Reuters
New! 100 YRS of California Labor History Digitized
Friday, August 29th, 2008The Institute for Research on Labor and Employment has created a digital repository of the publications of the California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO. This collection includes proceedings and papers dating back to 1901, from the records of the Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. This collection is now available on the UC Berkeley Library Web site, and also in the California Digital Library’s Calisphere and Online Archive of California (OAC).
Source: IWS Documented News Service
Briefs
Friday, August 29th, 200850-State Small Dollar Loan Scorecard…and other full-text reports on DocuTicker
Friday, August 29th, 2008Posted 28 August 2008 on DocuTicker:
50-State Small Dollar Loan Scorecard (Consumer Federation of America)
+ CCAGW Releases 2007 Congressional Ratings (Citizens Against Government Waste)
+ Entering the Home Stretch: Media Bureau Releases Report on the Status of TV Broadcasters at the Final Six Months of the Digital Television Transition (Federal Communications Commission)
Maine woman ordered to return library book
Thursday, August 28th, 2008A Maine woman says she’d rather go to jail than turn over a library book she deems “dangerous.” And she may get her chance later this week.
Source: Boston Globe
New Guide From Library of Congress: Emergency Preparedness: Earthquake Response and Recovery
Thursday, August 28th, 2008Emergency Preparedness: Earthquake Response and Recovery
Earthquakes can damage collections in many ways. Tips and links from the Library’s Preservation Directorate.
Source: LC
