News by Blackberry
Looks like BBCRiver.com, news headlines and stories, could be a winner in the Blackberry market. Check out Ewan Macleod’s post about using his Blackberry to get news. He writes SMS Text News.
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Innovation & Trends
Innovation is a key topic at fall conferences:KMWorld & Intranets, San Jose, Oct 31-Nov 2webcom Toronto, Building Smarter Organizations, Nov 7-9 From Michael Tchong’s Ubertrends, “innovation [is] on the front burner for a growing list of CEOs, The Wall Street Journal noted on July 17, 2006. That surge in innovation interest can be readily seen [...]
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Digital Landscapes
Just stumbled upon this interesting blog, Smartspace, about annotated environments, intelligent infrastructure and digital landscapes. Written by Scott Smith who’s with Social Technologies, a leading international futures research and consulting firm based in Washington, DC. He also manages Mobile Weblog. He is “a futurist, writer, speaker and consultant whose work focuses on how technology changes [...]
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Sullivan Shockwaves in SE sphere
Have you ever seen so many ripples in the information industry? Shows you the extent of Danny Sullivan’s influence on the search engine world when his notice of pending departure from Search Engine Watch and Search Engine Strategies conferences impacts the blogosphere so strongly! Not only does that last article link to many blogs posts [...]
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Writing Tips & Tools
Looks like it could be a great new book from writer & Poynter Institute Faculty, Roy Peter Clark, titled, Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer. You can also see the 50 strategies online.
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Mashups, Journalists & Info Pros
Interesting to see this post from Al Thompkins of the Poynter Institute on a business model for mashups and “how journalists should be getting smarter about using mashups. For the uninitiated, mashups are simply a way of marrying useful data, such as home sales with maps such as Google maps. Mapping data makes the information [...]
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SLA CEO on themes at IFLA: Advocacy
Great podcast by Janice Lachance, CEO, SLA from IFLA meeting in Seoul. She talks about common themes including* library association agreement on the importance on advocacy for the library and information profession in a world where anyone can do research and has access to tools* external advocacy to those making rules and policies impacting libray [...]
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World Library & Information Congress, Seoul
The 72nd World Library and Information Congress hosted by the International Federation of Library Associtions (IFLA) is taking place this week in Seoul. The opening ceremonies were spectacular at this major league information event, or as the President of the IFLA National Organising Committee, Mr. Ki-Nam Shin, called it, “the cultural olympics”. The keynote speaker, [...]