Ok, here is your cool book related video for the week... enjoy. [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/33822223 w=500&h=281] Much Better Now from Salon Alpin on Vimeo.

I love this a million gazillion times. Happy Friday.[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFzXaFbxDcM]

One of the presentations I attended at COMO was a presentation on "Lost in the Stacks" the Library "Rock and Roll" Radio Show hosted at WREK.  This show is on at Fridays at noon and if you can't catch it then, you can hear the archives for 2 weeks (hopefully they can do podcasting one day).

I think the maps are especially useful but lots of good info available at the Google Crisis Response for the 2011 Japanese Earthquake/Tsunami. Google did a person finder for the Christchurch Earthquake, too, but this really encompasses much more information.

So I was looking at a way to visualize my web presence, but even beyond that, some of my interests. Mainly this was for fun (yes, I do things like this for fun) but also to help me "see" where my interests are as I explore potential PhD programs.Here is a start (which you can see at mindomo):

Very cool resource of athens newspapers & historic info:-----------The Digital Library of Georgia is pleased to announce the availability of a new online resource: The Athens Historic Newspapers Archivehttp://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/athnewspapers The Athens Historic Newspapers Archive provides online access to five newspaper titles published in Athens from 1827 to 1922. Consisting of over 57,000 newspaper pages, the archive provides historical images that are both full-text searchable and can be browsed by date.

Okay, these both look waaaaaayy more useful than the ipad (which is very pretty, and if someone would like to send one, or for that matter, all of these, I will be glad to give a very honest review.

Internet archive has both moving images and stills including publicdomain; others are licensed under creative commons (CC).http://www.internetarchive.organd here are the various searches by CC license type:http://is.gd/dMHClAlso searching flickr by CC licensehttp://www.flickr.com/search/advanced/?flickr does have some very short film clips.I'm sure there are other tools, even the creativecommons website hassearching functionality.Youtube allows searching by licens

my coworkers did an awesome job on this video...[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msj6SXuYHR0&hl=en_US&fs=1]