網絡集錦
Saturday, November 3, 2007 — AlanAssociated Press - Read the prepared remarks of Associated President President and CEO Tom Curley for the Nov. 1 Knight-Bagehot Dinner in New York
http://www.ap.org/pages/about/whatsnew/wn_110107a.html
Remarks by Tom Curley
President and CEO/Associated Press
Knight-Bagehot Dinner
New York, Nov. 1, 2007
Young people the world over are hungry for news. They just don’t prefer our traditional platforms and packaging.
Our focus must be on becoming the very best at filling people’s 24-hour news needs. That’s a huge shift from the we-know-best, gatekeeper thinking. Sourcing, fact-gathering, researching, story-telling, editing, packaging aren’t going away. These professional skills still should command premium wages. But the readers and viewers are demanding to captain their information ships. Let them.
More people are accessing news more frequently than ever before the world over. All media platforms — video, audio, digital and even text — are seeing growth. Demand for the four major content areas — news, entertainment, sports and financial — continues to rise.
We’re wedded to words even when pictures tell the story. The focus has to be on the best way to tell the story whether words, pictures or both and without regard to format.
We also must speed up our clock to real time. When I started, in the sixties, the news cycle was 12 hours. Today, it’s three hours – about the time it takes for a significant percentage of the people interested in a story to have encountered the story or the news they need. Yet, newspapers and newscasts run with lead stories of marginal interest that are 20-plus hours old.
The measuring stick, really the vision, has to be about much more than yesterday’s news. Clearly, new types of news-consumption behaviors have emerged. Scanning the news has become the norm. A majority get news on line — more than those who read the daily newspaper, and half of them scan for updates several times a day.
Deeper dives for the news also are vital to today’s news consumers. The need for sophisticated content sets up opportunities around analysis, perspective, opinion, interactivity, archives and related information, especially content that can be linked.
不跟時代和需求作出轉變，只有死路一條。AP 的主席兼行政總裁是捉到鹿了，但能否成功脫角仍是未知數…
Yahoo! 新聞 - 新報外判印刷裁員七十人
(明報) 11月 03日 星期六 05:20PM
http://hk.news.yahoo.com/071103/12/2irwh.html
而香港的《新報》最終可以成功存活下來嗎？
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Mashable! - Newspapers: Evolve or Die (AP’s CEO Agrees)
http://mashable.com/2007/11/02/ap-new-media/
延伸閱讀
Taiwan 2.0 - 不看報紙和電視，還是能知天下事
http://taiwan.chtsai.org/2006/08/30/bu_kan_baozhi_he_dianshi/
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Library Views 圖書館觀點 - OCLC 最新報告出爐 － 「Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World」
http://libraryviews.blogsome.com/2007/10/27/602/
Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World
The complete report (PDF)
http://www.oclc.org/reports/pdfs/sharing.pdf
補充 (Nov 4, 2007)
剛掃完整份報告，豐富的數據沒什麼特別 (令人驚訝的發現)，只是 U.S. Library Directors 使用網絡跟一般使用者有不同，但亦屬意料之內，所以對我而言，重點可完全放在 “Libraries and Social Networking” [PDF: p.191-197 or Report: 6-20 to 6-26]。圖書館要參與 social network，從中發掘更多的資源，最重要就是讓讀者知道圖書館的服務絕非只跟書有關，更要互動分享、發佈資訊和培養他們的資訊素養。唯有這樣，圖書館才能融入讀者的生活，增加他們利用圖書館來掘寶的機會。
個人對這些觀念絕不陌生，當初特意為學校圖書館設計的網站就已經包含了它們全部，只可惜它到我離開都沒有機會正式投入服務，實在是很不甘心。
Alan Poon’s Blog - 學校圖書館網頁聯播資訊
http://alanpoon.wordpress.com/2007/08/10/799/
補充 (Nov 4, 2007)
將圖書館網頁的部分預製件重新包裝，widgets 換成個人的戶口，搬到當初測試用的 Blogger，再加入過往貼過的圖資文，來個重生。
An end and a beginning
http://ccmlib.blogspot.com/
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Library Views 圖書館觀點 - 【新書】－ Information Tomorrow
http://libraryviews.blogsome.com/2007/10/29/597/
Information Tomorrow – Reflections on Technology and the Future of Public & Academic Libraries
Amazon.com - Information Tomorrow; Reflections on Technology ad the Future of Public and Academic Libraries
http://www.amazon.com/Information-Tomorrow-Reflections-Technology-Libraries/dp/1573873039/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-7454665-0418249?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194097496&sr=8-1
有時間真的要讀讀…
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LibraryThing - Link LibraryThing accounts to Google?
http://www.librarything.com/blog/2007/09/link-librarything-to-google.php
成事的話，又向整合行出一大步…
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秋聲 Blog - 好個書目E-R Model(實體/關係模型)
http://soundoffall.blogspot.com/2007/10/e-r-model.html
有作權威控制的…較佳；未作權威控制者，會把同名字的不同的作著者攪在一起。
這就就是為什麼 LibraryThing 點都比 aNobii 好的其中一個原因…
Alan Poon’s Blog - 書籍收藏分享網站
http://alanpoon.wordpress.com/2007/05/24/書籍收藏分享網站/
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Ars Technica - Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: the Ars Technica review
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/mac-os-x-10-5.ars
詳細的 Leopard 評…
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Slashdot - Ars Technica Reviews OS X 10.5
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/30/0134225
在美國銷售的 MacBook 規格已靜悄悄的提升了，只要香港方面一跟隨，我的新寶寶就會出世…
Engadget - Apple’s MacBook and MacBook Pro quietly updated
http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/01/apple-macbooks-quietly-updated-to-santa-rosa/
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新 BLOG - 2007 Blog 中舞動 - eeePC 小報告(一) - Linux 試機篇
http://siusun.best-view.net/blog/index.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=416&blogId=1
新 BLOG - 2007 Blog 中舞動 - eeePC 小報告(二) - 加RAM裝XP篇
http://siusun.best-view.net/blog/index.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=417&blogId=1
新 BLOG - 2007 Blog 中舞動 - eeePC 小報告(三) - XP 優化篇
http://siusun.best-view.net/blog/index.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=418&blogId=1
Eee PC 在香港，沒有當初想像中的吸引，雖然各大電腦雜誌對其有不俗的評價…
Engadget - Eee PC review roundup
http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/01/eee-pc-review-roundup/
年尾的官方視窗版 (8GB SSD?) 應可吸引一班畏懼非 Wins OS 的人，進一步提升它的吸引力吧…
ASUS - Eee PC - ASUS Unites the Breakthrough Eee PC with Microsoft Windows
http://eeepc.asus.com/en/news10192007.htm
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Tom’s Hardware - Take Your Storage Online
http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/10/17/take_your_storage_online/
Xdrive
http://www.xdrive.com/
Mozy
http://mozy.com/
即使 Xdrive 好使好用，我偏偏仍是比較依賴用電郵做分享和備份，除非檔案的容量太大，如下星期離職時要帶走所做過的一切 softcopy…
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Read/WriteWeb - Fantasy Stock Markets Turn Play Money Into Cash
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/fantasy_stock_markets.php
The UpDown
http://www.theupdown.com/
無真錢投資，可以玩玩 fantasy，玩得好更有真錢入袋…
p.s. 各大基金公司可以從中尋覓有潛質的，他/她可能就是下一位 Peter Lynch…
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Read/WriteWeb - The State of Office 2.0 and its Future
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_state_of_office_20.php
整合得最好的將會成為領導者，而可以跳出傳統 MS Office 框框形態的就可成為霸主…
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Webware.com - A Newbie’s Guide to Flock
http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9806087-2.html
Flock
http://www.flock.com/
久遺了的 Flock，終於推出 ver 1.0，只可惜它已經不受注目了…
