Sethf is right on the money. Remember how I said that 350 pages of “pornography” that everyone is always telling us about, belong to me, thanks to N2H2 and their stupid overblocking? This is something like that, only it’s the lawyers talking, look out!
Category: ‘puters
acronym tag, use it
Speaking of accessibility, this is an aside to all you code jockeys. Mouseover OITP in the previous post. On most, if not all, current browsers, the full title for the acronym will show up as a tooltip, even in my aggregator. This can help make our sometimes inane sounding acronym soup more accessible to people who are not as familiar with the profession, and aids in Google’s indexing of your page. Use the acronym tag. Easy code:
<acronym title="Office for Information Technology Policy">OITP</acronym>
rss/del.icio.us
It’s been a week or so since I started using the RSS reader, and del.icio.us. I have to say, I’m fond of NetNewsWire and I feel that I don’t use del.icio.us nearly as much as I thought I would. The RSS reader has its drawbacks, mainly the fact that, like Capitalism or Communism, the whole system works better if everyone is on board. As long as I still have to hop on to the browser to read 1/2 the weblogs and other content I read, it’s less useful. For delivery of straight-up news, it can’t be beat. For any content I want to interact with [LISNews, blogs that I comment on] it encourages non-interaction and I’ve gone back to reading those web pages instead. As far as del.icio.us, I just don’t want to go through the extra steps for what I need to use it for, which is organizing links to add here and send other places, temporary stuff. Usually, I just drag the browser icon to my “add me” folder. Now I have to go to a web page, enter comments, hit submit. I can handle the lack of metadata and honestly, most of the stuff I’m likely to link isn’t really showing up a lot of other places. It’s a great tool, just not for me.
ARL on fair use and electronic reserves
Searching for Stanford and ARL to try to get some more info on this story [a “shocker” says Library Journal] I came up with this nifty little document about applying Fair Use to the development of electronic reserves.
your library, online
Technical services librarian Janet Rubenking wrote a useful column for PC Magazine about online databases, the type that would be connected to a library web site.[thanks carol]