Netscape gone!?! The end of an era.

While this probably comes as no surprise to anyone. "Netscape Navigator, now owned by AOL, will no longer be supported after 1 March 2008, the company has said." See article by BBC here. For those of us old timers it is a sad day. Mozilla/Netscape helped get many of us started. I remember eagerly awaiting the new release of Netscape to see what cool new HTML thing I could code. It was also fun riding the rapids between the HTML "standards" of IE and Netscape.

Well its legacy is not dead. It lives on in the Mozilla open source community. If you haven't already given Firefox and Flock a try. You may never go back to IE.

The lights may be out Netscape, but you will never be forgotten.

The Global Mashup, I mean Encyclopedia, of Life

Amazing project spearheaded by E.O. Wilson; described in the NY Times at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/26/science/26ency.html

NYU SCPS Center New Course Catalog

NYU has updated their course catalog.

Have a look at their new and improved site.

Enjoy.

5 Minute Videos

5min.com is comprised of video shorts on all matter of practical topics. According to the site "5min is a place to find short video solutions for every practical question and is also a place for people who want to share their knowledge. 5min's vision is simple: any solution can be visually explained in 5 minutes. Show us your skills! Join 5min and spread your knowledge!"

Go check it out. It's fun and very interactive.

Knowledgebase on Common Models/Standards for Hosting Raw Data and Grey Literature

The Future Lab Committee of the STM trade organization (of which I am part of) will likely be creating a knowledge base/wiki on the common models/standards that people are using for hosting raw research data and grey literature. This effort is not meant to create a central repository for this type of content but rather an information space for publishers and others to learn about efforts that are already underway. The intention is to categorize these initiatives but subject area.

If you know about any of the efforts around standardizing raw research data and grey literature, I would be happy to post any information you send me to the knowledge base. Additionally, the wiki will be open to the world for reading but invite only for contributing. So if you wish to be a contributor just let me know and I'll get you in.

MobileOK checker

Tim Berner’s Lee recently announced that the mobileOK checker is available as a beta from the W3C at:

validator.w3.org/mobile

I tested this blog on it and got back:

The following failures are fatal and prevent the checker from doing any further test on that page:

This page failed on 1 tests

The page is not XML well-formed. This test is related to the following Best Practices: VALID_MARKUP (techniques)

Interesting. So is Blogger not compliant at all?

Enjoy!

Agile Publishing Presentation

Back in November, I gave a talk at a Mark Logic sponsored event about Agile Publishing. I thought it would be great to share the presentation given there. Later on I plan to index all of my presentations around the net.

The Agile Publishing Imperative: Accelerate the Creation of Information Products

Enjoy.

Google Develops Wikipedia Rival

Interesting. Googlie is challenging the annonymous/collective author principle of Wikipedia by developing a similar product with authored articles.

Belated Congrats

Congratulations to all of my students from NYU's Introduction to Interactive Publishing.

You were a terrific group to teach. Each of you made a real effort to participate each week in class and also on the class blog. Your final projects -- individual blogs -- were a real treat. I was very impressed with the progress made by each of you. I hope that you all keep your blogs alive. I will be looking!

I encourage you to keep posting to this blog too. You are what it made it special to begin with.

Stay in touch.

eBooks: Good for Publishing?

Tim O'Reilly on Amazon's Kindle: "My advice to publishers and authors is this: figure out what it costs to produce what you sell, estimate what kind of volume you'll be able to achieve using the best available data, and then set your prices at a level that will deliver a reasonable profit from your efforts. Sound familiar?"