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I couldn’t find a good feed for First Monday, so I scraped one together:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/FirstMonday (Subscribe with Bloglines)

Let me know if you notice any problems with the feed (other than character encoding issues).

I noticed this response to the Fedora users survey on Peter Murray’s blog, and figured I’d post a response. Since my previous employer did not use Fedora, and I haven’t begun my new job yet, I’ll be posting about our use of Fedora at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

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Public services:
“Restrooms are over there, sir!”
Cynical, ain’t I?

Repositories,
institutional or not–
we fill them with stuff.

What is unAPI? Why should you care about it?

Read Introducing unAPI, in Ariadne issue 48, for answers to those questions… and more! Here’s the obligatory snippet:

Common Web tools and techniques cannot easily manipulate library resources. While photo sharing, link logging, and Web logging sites make it easy to use and reuse content, barriers still exist that limit the reuse of library resources within new Web services. To support the reuse of library information in Web 2.0-style services, we need to allow many types of applications to connect with our information resources more easily. One such connection is a universal method to copy any resource of interest. Because the copy-and-paste paradigm resonates with both users and Web developers, it makes sense that users should be able to copy items they see online and paste them into desktop applications or other Web applications. Recent developments proposed in weblogs and discussed at technical conferences suggest exactly this: extending the ‘clipboard’ copy-and-paste paradigm onto the Web. To fit this new, extended paradigm, we need to provide a uniform, simple method for copying rich digital objects out of any Web application.

(Full disclosure: I helped a bit with this article. Thanks to Dan et al. for giving me the chance to sully their otherwise well-thought out article.)