Weekly Links Roundup

• Apps disrupt sleepy science, medical, research and business-to-business publishing- The Globe and Mail

• Designing a balanced reading diet: Allocate time to read both for fun and for professional development – The Globe and Mail

• The Future of Big Data – Pew Internet

• IFLA Statement on Visually Impaired and Print Disabled Persons – IFLA

• Literary labours lent: The uncertain economics of lending virtual books – The Economist

• Magic Mike’s Guide to Seducing Your Audience (and Leave Them Panting for More) – Copyblogger

• OCUL joins Public Knowledge Project as Major Development Partner in Open Access Scholarly Publishing – OCUL

• Required Summer Reading – Incidental Comics

• Social Justice & Library Service in First Nation Communities [PDF] – SOLS

• A south-of-the-border view of Canadian copyright developments – Duke University

• Tiny library, big celebration: Ontario’s tiniest full-service library marks its 100th anniversary Saturday – London Free Press

• Trend Spotting or Why I Hired a Competitive Intelligence Librarian – Slaw.ca

• Why Wal-Marts become libraries (and courts and civic centres) – CBC

 

Top 10 Library Stories of 2011

American Libraries presents its list of the top 10 library news stories of 2011, covering digitization, privacy, copyright, advocacy, and much more.

 

The Economist – A Special Report on Managing Information

The Economist has published a special report on managing information. Includes an interview with journalist Kenneth Cukier.

• Data, data everywhere
  Information has gone from scarce to superabundant. That brings huge new benefits – but also big headaches.

• All too much
  Monstrous amounts of data

• A different game
  Information is transforming traditional businesses.

• Clicking for gold
  How internet companies profit from data on the web.

• The open society
  Governments are letting in the light.

• Show me
  New ways of visualising data.

• Needle in a haystack
  The uses of information about information.

• New rules for big data
  Regulators are having to rethink their brief.

• Handling the cornucopia
  The best way to deal with all that information is to use machines. But they need watching.

• Sources and acknowledgements

A free downloadable PDF version of the report is also available.

The State of the Internet

(Thanks to sageComm for pointing out this video.)

JESS3 designed and animated this for the JESS3 lecture at AIGA Baltimore in Feb 2010.