For 40 years, the choral group Ladysmith Black Mambazo has captured the hearts and minds of people around the world, including former South African President, Nelson Mandela Also see Nelson Mandela's Life and Leadership Twenty years after his release from prison, a look at the career of the world's great hero. Narrated by TIME's Managing Editor, Rick Stengel No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. ..read more »

I was a great fan of Google Notebook but Google decided to drop the development of Google Notebook. I used it mostly for blogging. It’s integration with Firefox made it an easy to use tool for saving links, web pages and blogposts. At the beginning of the previous year I decided to give Evernote a try and I was very satisfied with this capture tool. You can sync your evernotes with all your devices, even with the iphone. It’s integration with Firefox is smooth. Recently found a better alternative reducing the time to save links etc. with another click less and .....read more »

This article discussed in this post, isn't recent but the conclusion is very nuanced which isn't always the case with publications especially in news media about social networking and kids or adolescents. Seems that politicians are advocating measures to restrict social networking for children in order to prevent assumed online sexual exploitation and Internet harassment. Broad claims of victimization risk, at least defined as unwanted sexual solicitation or harassment, associated with social networking sites do not seem justified. Prevention efforts may have a greater impact if they focus on the psychosocial problems of youth instead of a specific Internet application, including .....read more »

Laika's MedLibLog was nominated for the medical weblog award 2009. She didn't make it to the final although I think her blog is an excellent mixture of librarian ship and web 2.0 with a lot of medical information well written and better to read than what I usually write. Thanks for her mentioning that I'm in the finals otherwise I wouldn't have known. Been nominated several times but never made it this far which probably explains my ambivalence towards these competitions. No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. ..read more »

Tumbled upon a new term of which I had never heard before. It's web mashup. It's the newest most recent Web technology and is growing fast. a mashup is a web page or application that combines data or functionality from two or more external sources to create a new service. The term mashup implies easy, fast integration, frequently using open APIs and data sources to produce results that were not the original reason for producing the raw source data. An example of a mashup is the use of cartographic data to add location information to real estate data, thereby creating .....read more »

A very good and concise practical introduction to Google Wave. This video shows good examples on how to make use of the features of Google Wave. What I liked most about this video is the use of Google Wave for Twitter. There is a way to fully integrate Twitter into Google Wave: using TwitterGadget. A warning from Dr Ves @DrShock G Wave with Twitter Integration http://tinyurl.com/ybcuthg - No API login, you have to give them user name/password - not good. Another example is about embedding google wave in other applications such as blogs. This last feature sounds pretty cool. .....read more »

What does the Internet do to your brain? Intellectuals and writers such as Doris Lessing, Brian Cathcart and Nicholas Carr argue that the web is making us stupider, killing our attention spans, and filling our brains with inanities. Jesse Brown proves these points by arguing against them. Thanks Boing Boing No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. ..read more »

A recent meta-analysis examined the relationship between various Internet uses and well being. The studies published until know is mostly about the discussion whether using Internet for communication with e-mail replaces other forms of communication such as using the phone, chat or face to face contact. Contact through e-mail, facebook, twitter and such replaces real life contact and this is believed to be a bad thing. It reduces the quality of contact, make it more unpersonalized with lack of feelings and commitment. The other hypothesis is that use of Internet with e-mail, facebook, and twitter facilitates the use of the .....read more »

I am very pleased to host this month's edition of the Medlib's round at it's almost first birthday. The Medlib's round was started by Jacqueline of Laika’s Medliblog in January 2009 and first published in February 2009. It's a blog carnival of “excellent blog posts in the field of medical librarianship”. I've included the submitted posts and some posts from MedLiblogs I frequenty visit, here it goes at random: Mesh terms as used in PubMed for medical literature searches are a kind of tags. MeSH terms will tell you how a particular issue is talked about and labeled. If there .....read more »

The threats of the popular social network Facebook are: Identity theft Threats to personal safety such as stalking or threatening either online or in real life Social risks through participating in minority groups or stigmatized groups How do people differ in self-disclosure and what kind or how much of information has a high risk for these treats? In a recent study the researchers developed a tool to score the information disclosed on Facebook. This instrument can determine in Facebook profiles what personal information is disclosed and what is not. Next this scoring tool for personal information was used to explore means for examining identity threat. .....read more »