We’re in the heat of the Scifoo unconference at Google, hosted by Nature, O’Reilly and Google. It’s a fantastic experience – I’ve been fortunate to be re-invited. It’s about what you can help to create in this atmosphere – how can we change the world. We’re discouraged from real-time blogging and direct quotes without permission so this gives

Jim Downing and Nico Adams recently visited Silicon Valley for SemTech09 and I because that’s close to Google I mailed Leslie Hawthorn. Two years ago Leslie had invited me to Google to give a Tech Talk and I because I appreciated that so much I thought it would be great if she could do the same for Jim and Nico

Title of the Preconference: Creating Library Web Services: Mashaps and APIs Presenter : Karen Coombs The pre-conference session began shortly after 9AM. Ms. Karen Coombs introduced herself and refreshed participants memory about what “web services are?” and why we need Mashaps and APIs, and what we can do with them and how they work

The Open Knowledge Foundation has just launched the alpha version of “ Is It Open? ” a service designed to help clarify whether scientific data (normally on publishers’ websites but could be anywhere) is truly Open according to the ideas of the OKF and Science Commons. This service allows anyone to ask a formal question about the status of Data

If you are unable to attend the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago later this week (or if you’re just in the next room), please join the Top Tech Trends 2009 panel on the LITA blog via CoverItLive . Sign up for a reminder below. We want to know what you want to know! Please vote in the topics poll .

This is a list of Top Tech Trends for the ALA Annual Meeting, Summer 2009. Green computing The amount of computing that gets done on our planet has a measurable carbon footprint, and many of us, myself included, do not know exactly how much heat our computers put off and how much energy they consume. With the help from some folks from the

A big huge thanks to everyone involved in the first ever LITACamp May 7-8, 2009 Colombus, Ohio The terrific Keynote/daily kick off speakers: Joan Frye Williams John Blyberg The sponsors: BCR OCLC The LITA Camp Task Force Mark Beatty David Ward Jennifer Ward Michelle Frisque Zoe Marshall Peter Murray Maurice York

Open Knowledge Foundation Blog Open Knowledge Foundation Newsletter No. 11 July 2nd, 2009 Open Knowledge Foundation Newsletter No. 11 has just been sent out: Open Knowledge Foundation Newsletter No. 11 Welcome to the eleventh Open Knowledge Foundation newsletter! Contents: The OKF turns five and we need your support!

From David Wiley’s blog (“Iterating towards openness ” ) - David is founder of OpenContent.org. After a general discussion about free-being-inevitable (reviewing reviews of Chris Anderson ’ s upcoming book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price he moves to higher education: Competition! Massive amounts of almost-no-barrier-to-entry