Government Information Accessibility

Here is a series of talks on Government Information Accessbility:

Organisation Culture

Ritz-Carlton Hotels:



Google:



Note the difference.

What is information?

This might help:

Library Science and Music

Erm, here. Whats the connection? Answers on a postcard pls.

(h/t: Lyn).

Flight of the Valkyrie's (erm Librarians)

Good Lord:

(h/t: Metro)

I love the smell of books in the morning, its smells like ... [answer on a postcard please]. Here's another example of the use of this music:

Awful Library Books

A new blog on books which don't look like good reads. This one in particular ......

(h/t: Norm)

High Frequency Trading

This is rather new to me - we're talking milliseconds here. This does not seem to have a long term future, just thing of the havoc created if they let loose intelligent agents on the problem.

(h/t: Tim Miller)

March of the Librarians

David Attenborough as applied to librarians, their general behavior mating habits etc...

What a hoot! (h/t: Lyn Robinson).

Google Waves

Here's a google app being released as open source:

Rather long, but well worth a look.

Charlies Angels as applied to information mediation (or Libraries)

This is rather fun (from):

(h/t: Lyn Robinson).

Online newspapers

Going online isn't always beneficial, particularly if you stop printing your newspaper, see here, here and here.

Political Blogging (pt 2)

Stephen Pollard has some interesting things to say about the effect of Blogging as against the effect of the MSM in information dissemination. Oliver Kamm, takes a somewhat different line.

Earthquake

Last night I was awoken by a notice where everything seemed to shake - really shook me up, bit of start!

I wondered if it was an earthquake, and it was!

Didn't last very long, but it was a bit of racket!

Update

This earthquake has some interesting information dissemination implications, according to the Register