Posts by Pete Sime
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How many teams can say they left the World Cup undefeated? I am very pleased with this side.
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Today is a very interesting day. One other thing to note is that Google has won the copyright case Viacom brought against it.
Okay, it's a big deal for I.P. geeks like me.
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I think Ricki Herbert deserves a knighthood, no matter what happens in the next game. He's brought the team so far
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This isn't really an e-book, more an app for the ipad, but it's pretty clever. I won't be in the market for one this year, but it does have a lot of scope for innovation in delivery of content.
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I can't see anywhere that Kobo would be able to play other media like videos, if it could that would be neat, but I guess it would be on the premium version.
It uses an e-ink screen, which is greyscale and not back-lit. That's the reason why battery life is so good. Power is only used to change the screen image, rather than flashing at around 60 times a second, as a display on a notebook or an ipad would do.
I have heard that efforts are being made to make colour e-ink displays, but that's a couple of years away -
an archive which co-ordinates the digitalization of the audio past.... then making that available to the public
would be a marvellous thing- but a copyright nightmare, eh?
Not necessarily, if the Film Archive in Wellington, and other such institutions are anything to go by.
Until 2 weeks ago when I started a new position I was one of the cataloguers creating records for MP3s (there are some other formats like FLAC, but mainly they're MP3s) ingested into the National Digital Heritage Archive. Because of copyright issues we can only stream them in house - either in Wellington or at one of the service centres. We do put the source of the files on our records if they're readily available.
Anybody know anything about the KoBo, whitcoull's just available- here e-reader?
I've checked the website - seems to be an exercise in enticement but doesnt answer questions like "Can you scan on your own computer titles you own and then upload them to the KoBo?" (This would be the killer ability for me...)
I bought one yesterday. Start-up time is a little slow, but page-turns are about the same as a physical book. You're not locked into a retailer - but it only reads epub and pdf (I'm not so sure about DRM issues). I put on a number of epub files from Project Gutenberg last night and they work really well.
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I should say it has also been archived at the National Library. You can access the first link from any computer.
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Paul's valedictory lecture as adjunct director of the National Library can be heard here. The National Library has archived it for posterity, but it can only be heard in house.
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It's a big loss for the library world. I remember being very impressed with him at the Library Association conference in 2007 when I was a proto-librarian and I made an effort to follow his blog and his commentary in other sectors - such as on Radio NZ - ever since. We definitely feel his loss here at the National Library. Rest in peace Paul.