Andrew Bonamici's Blog

Migrating to WordPress

2010-02-09T14:03:00.000-08:00

Gentle Readers:Effective March 26, 2010, Google will no longer support ftp publishing from the blogger platform. This is the approach I've used to date, so from now on this blog will be maintained at andrewbonamici.wordpress.com. If you follow my blog, please update bookmarks and links to the new address. You might need to do the same with the RSS feed. Thanks for your patience!Andrew

A day in the life of the internet

2010-01-25T21:23:00.000-08:00

In the spirit of Gary Hayes's Social Media Counter, here's another mind-bending snapshot of internet activity:Created by Online Education

Open Access Week at the UO Libraries

2009-10-14T13:49:00.000-07:00

Please join the UO Libraries for Open Access Week, Oct 19-23, 2009.Here is a detailed program flyer (PDF) to post and share with your colleagues.For more information about Open Access at the UO, see http://libweb.uoregon.edu/scis/sc/uoopenaccess.htmlSee you there!

Social Media Counter

2009-10-13T14:31:00.000-07:00

Minority Report trend & tech watch: object recognition with mobile devices

2009-07-12T18:24:00.000-07:00

from Steven Schroeder/Mashable:How would you like to be able to point your iPhone towards an object – the Eiffel Tower, for example – and instantly see the admission price, working hours, its height and other information? We’ve been hearing about such concepts for quite some time now – and we’ve been able to visualize it better since the movie Minority Report< – but Apple’s latest iPhone related

Worksite Design: Facebook (temporary) HQ

2009-06-16T19:05:00.000-07:00

from Reuters: ...... The old HP research facility was refurbished for comfort, not for luxury. Facebook tore out a sea of cubicles to reveal wide open spaces for desks and oversized terminals. Nearly everyone sits there, including all company executives. The result is something like a dream college dorm, with good food available throughout the day in a cafeteria. ....... Privacy is

twitter feeds for campus organizations

2009-06-03T17:11:00.000-07:00

Here is a list of University of Oregon school/college/department twitter feeds (as of today, June 3 2009). I have not attempted to gather up all of the feeds from individuals associated with the UO. If you know of others, send a tweet to andrewbonamici or comment on this post. Thanks!31 July 2009: Added Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art-----http://twitter.com/Univ_Of_Oregonhttp://twitter.com/

Publicly funded research for a price (Open Access story on NPR's "Marketplace")

2009-04-29T07:43:00.000-07:00

This is a good story about open access (OA) to publicly-funded research, including a poignant human interest angle. OA advocates and publishers offer their points of view, with specific mention of the NIH Open Access policy and the Fair Copyright in Research Works Act. Don't miss the comment thread, with special props to Frye Institute Fellows Joanne A. Schneider (Colgate University) and JQ

test post to new server

2009-04-02T11:50:00.000-07:00

test post to uoregon server (sftp rather than shell)

is this a copyright violation? Y/N

2009-02-26T19:13:00.000-08:00

Shepard Fairey, "Obama Hope," 2008.This image is linked directly from the ICA Boston exhibit website.

Open Courseware: downloadable lectures & the Peer-To-Peer University

2009-02-16T07:56:00.000-08:00

From the Chronicle of Higher Education Wired Campus Blog:YouTube began testing a new feature that lets users download videos posted to the site from partner institutions — including colleges — rather than just watching the videos in a streaming format. That means people can grab lectures from Duke and Stanford Universities and several institutions in the University of California system to watch

Google Time Zone Tip

2009-02-04T18:53:00.001-08:00

Are your google services(Gmail, Calendar, etc.) operating in the wrong time zone? This can be fixed but it is a hard setting to find. Here's what to do:1. Go to the main google page and select "My Account" in upper right. Log in if you haven't done so already.(click image to enlarge)2. select "e-mail addresses" in the personal settings column, then select "edit"(click image to enlarge)3. select

Library Research Skills course: videorama edition

2009-02-02T11:04:00.000-08:00

My UO colleagues Annie Zeidman-Karpinski and Karen Munro are co-teaching a special edition of Library 101 in Spring 2009. Check out the trailer (video linked above); more details below:What do videos and video games have to do with library research? We’ll find out in this class, which will focus on teaching undergraduates how to do library research through the lens of visual culture and gaming.

"Language is a powerful form of virtual reality"

2009-01-31T17:37:00.000-08:00

Attention literacy advocates -- here is some very interesting neuroscience from Jeff Zacks at Washington University - St Louis, as featured on NPR's "Science Out of the Box" for January 31, 2009:Speer, N. K., Reynolds, J. R., & Zacks, J. M. (2007). Human brain activity time-locked to narrative event boundaries. Psychological Science, 18(5), 449-455. (available online at http://dcl.wustl.edu/pubs

OCLC mobile WorldCat(s)

2009-01-24T18:30:00.001-08:00

OCLC has two different Worldcat mobile projects underway; here are a few first impressions. Caveat: my testing was brief and limited to the iPhone so YMMV. I. http://mobileworldcat.org/This is a mobile-optimized web interface developed by Bruce Washburn at OCLC and it works like a dream on the iPhone's Safari browser. I did a couple of keyword and author searches, results came up with a prompt

LilSis (Facebook In Reverse)

2009-01-16T17:13:00.000-08:00

This is interesting -- facebook-in-reverse:LittleSis is an involuntary facebook of powerful Americans, collaboratively edited by people like you. for example --

Top Teaching & Learning Challenges, 2009

2009-01-09T21:22:00.000-08:00

Here are this year's top five teaching and learning challenges, as identified by members of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI). Please take a look at these and contribute further questions, concerns, and creative solutions....the EDUCAUSE teaching and learning community has voted on the, “Top Teaching and Learning Challenges, 2009.” The final list for 2009, ranked by popularity, includes (

Henry Jenkins at the University of Oregon

2009-01-05T08:03:00.000-08:00

Here is a public talk by Henry Jenkins, Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities and co-director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT:During his visit to Eugene, Oregon Humanities Center Director Barbara Altmann interviewed Prof. Jenkins for the UO Today show:Update: In July 2009, Jenkins is leaving MIT to join the faculty at USC.

Digital Signage

2008-11-30T16:31:00.001-08:00

We are starting to do some research on digital signage for our library and possibly other campus locations as well. Here are a couple of installations from a recent trip to Boston:Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston. These screens are placed over the main information/ticket counter. The built in handout racks are a nice touch also. Copley Place, Boston. These were installed in a

Minority Report Trends and Technologies Watch, item #5

2008-10-14T07:47:00.000-07:00

Here's another installment of the"Minority Report" thread, this time from the BBC's Discovery program (sorry... programme). Pamela Rutherford interviews Irene Tracy (Oxford University), John Dylan-Haynes (Max Planck Institute), and Tom Mitchell and Marcel Just (Carnegie-Mellon) about neuroimaging, neurosemantics and neuroethics. "Once something new like this is discovered, there's no going

Rate The Debate 2008: Instructional Technology & Social Networking Convergence

2008-10-08T11:53:00.000-07:00

Put together a presidential debate, 270 students in a Mass Media and Society journalism course, a big campus lecture hall, iClickers, Twitter, a couple of blogs, and whaddaya got? Check it out:- Oregon Daily Emerald story (student newspaper)- Twitter site for the event- Richard Stutsman's blog entry- Jessica McKain's blog entryphoto credit: Daniel Bachhuber, Oregon Daily Emerald

Minority Report-style trends & technologies watch, item #4

2008-09-30T14:00:00.000-07:00

Terry Gross interviews Stephen Baker, author of The Numerati:Our Digital Lives, Monitored By A Hidden 'Numerati' Listen Now [20 min 5 sec] add to playlist Fresh Air from WHYY, September 29, 2008 ·

Thomson-Reuters vs. George Mason, aka EndNote vs. Zotero

2008-09-30T10:02:00.000-07:00

Thomson-Reuters is suing George Mason University for $10M in damages, alleging that GMU reverse engineered EndNote in order to enable file conversions for migration to Zotero. Here is the complaint (from courthousenews.com). The slashdot thread includes some thoughtful comments and links from librarians and technologists. The prevailing view seems to be that this is an intimidating nuisance

Vinton Cerf on BBC

2008-09-25T08:34:00.001-07:00

Google vice-president Vint Cerf discusses texting your refrigerator, RFID, ARPANET, interplanetary net access, the need for more IP addresses (IP version 6), and some interesting ideas from kids.

Grammatico watch (Dallas Morning News)

2008-09-08T09:15:00.000-07:00

Oh deer, what's the whirled "coming" too?p.s. to KFGR -- check out The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks.-------Grammatical errors on signs becoming a 'regualar' occurrence11:01 PM CDT on Saturday, September 6, 2008By ERIC AASEN / The Dallas Morning Newseaasen@dallasnews.com