OLC Dec 2012 — Web Watch
- What day is it? (Australian and international events)
- QR codes
- Financial transfers
- FreePint
- Communication and Language
- Google Art Project
- Infographics
Web Watch Online Currents Feb 2013
Web Watch Online Currents Feb 2013
- cloud-based computing and librarians
- engineering information
- patron-driven acquisition
- Digital Curation Resource Guide
- Digital Publishing Guide
- ebooks and book reviews on the web
- plastic books and recycled paper books
- TinEye: reverse image search
Web Watch, Online Currents April 2013
OLC April 2013_Browne_Web watch
This issue of Web Watch contains information on:
- Open information and internet activism (including Aaron Swartz’s achievements)
- JSTOR
- Bushfires and vegetation
- ALA on ebooks
- Tumblr
- Underwater music
- Adjusting to modern technology (humour)
Web Watch Online Currents June 2013
Web Watch Online Currents June 2013
- Disabilities and the NDIS
- Online indoor mapping
- Do-not-mail registers
First published: Online Currents June 2013
Web Watch 2014 and 2015
Online Currents Web Watch column 2015
Covers languages on the web and unglueit.com.
Online Currents Web Watch column 2015
Covers websites about media bias, heritage vocabularies, reading and publishing, and special copyright cases.
Covers domestic violence websites, research metrics (including altmetrics) and ordering edible bugs.
Whatever happened to printers?
By Jon. For Online Currents
What is Linux, and why should you care?
By Jon: First published in Online Currents 2004 – 19(2): 22-24
Operating systems
The basic function of an operating system (OS) is to allow a computer user to run programs. In order to do this the operating system must be able to: a) keep track of and modify the contents of the computer’s storage media; and b) start up automatically when the computer is turned on – i.e. ‘boot up’.
These two requirements mean that it is quite difficult – and can be dangerous – to have two or more operating systems installed on the same computer. Minor failures or idiosyncrasies by the operating system which has booted up and is currently in control may lead to catastrophic results when another operating system takes over. Nearly all users opt for single-OS systems, and – because the OS controls which programs are allowed to run – this in turn restricts them to a particular subset of programs. What we think of as ‘IBM-compatible software’ is in fact ‘DOS/Windows compatible software’; an IBM-compatible PC running a different OS has a completely different range of programs available to it.
Where in the world..? Geolocation for beginners
By Jon. For Online Currents
Writers Online column for Australian Author
For several years I wrote the Writers Online column for Australian Author. I have collected most of these into a PDF here:
XML: The Next(ish) Big(gish) Thing
by Jon Jermey. First published in Online Currents – Vol.16 Issue 9, November 2001
Abstract
XML is a language related to HTML that allows material to be marked up semantically rather than for its desired appearance or role in a document. XML provides an open standard for compiling and accessing diverse data collections on a world-wide basis. Explicit specifications can be provided to control and validate XML data structures. XML also includes tools for converting between different sets of specifications.