Call for proposals -- Educating in the Open

ELI 2011 Annual Meeting—Call for Proposals Educating in the Open: Philosophies, Innovations, and Stories February 14–16, 2011 Washington Hilton, Washington, D.C.

We would like to personally invite you to join us at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative 2011 Annual Meeting, February 14–16 in Washington, D.C.

Multitasking.. what? huh? (interesting article)

Interesting post at the NYT Blogs today on multitasking:
For better or worse, the consumption of media, as varied as e-mail and TV, has exploded. In 2008, people consumed three times as much information each day as they did in 1960. And they are constantly shifting their attention. Computer users at work change windows or check e-mail or other programs nearly 37 times an hour, new research shows. .... “We are exposing our brains to an environment and asking them to do things we weren’t necessarily evolved to do,” he said.

Call for papers (Intellectual Property conference)

Call for papers: Conference on Intellectual Property, Iona College, New Rochelle, NY

April 30-May 1, 2010; (cfp deadline: Feb. 5, 2010)

Iona College announces the Second Conference on Intellectual Property to be held at Iona College in New Rochelle, NY, April 30 – May 1, 2010. The keynote address will be presented by James Boyle.*

Apps vs. maps (Verizon vs. AT&T)

In case you didn't hear, AT&T (iphone, among others) dropped the lawsuit against Verizon's ad campaign (playing on the " an app for that" by comparing the 3G coverage of AT&T to Verizon with a visual map). Read more at mashable and elsewhere.I thought it was a really clever and hardhitting ad campaign, which is saying alot in the sea of ads we all see everyday.

Google buys recaptcha -- captcha spam filtering software

Very interesting.
This morning, the Official Google Blog announced that the search giant has acquired reCAPTCHA. The company provides a service that combines two things that Google would be very interested in: it verifies that information provided to a server has been entered by a human and, in the process, helps identify difficult-to-decipher text from book digitization projects.

Evergreen Documentation Group needs your help!

For those interested in Evergreen or opensource library projects....The Evergreen Documentation Interest Group needs your input to help prioritize its activities for the next few months. Please share the following survey link widely. We are casting a wide net -- we want input from as many roles as possible, from project coordinators to people working the front lines in libraries, and whether you are just thinking about Evergreen or running it since Day 1.Responses are due no later than 5 p.m. ET Thursday, August 20, 2009.
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