"An information specialist at the Ontario Multifaith Council on Spiritual and Religious Care, Taher explores religious worship on the Internet, in which people engage in prayer, praise, sacrament, confession, Eucharist, pilgrimage, contemplation, and other practices online. He offers a systematic though not comprehensive catalog of services, products, processes, approaches, applications, and functions that encompass mainstream and alternative traditions of belief and practice."— November 2006, REFERENCE & RESEARCH BOOK NEWS
"I certainly never write a review about a book I don't think worth reviewing, a flat-out bad book, unless it's an enormously fashionable bad book." --
says, John Gardner in Conversations with John Gardner
Quoted from 'Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations' Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p.150.
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says, John Gardner in Conversations with John Gardner
Quoted from 'Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations' Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p.150.
Available @ Amazon.com
Saturday, November 18, 2006
Book Reveiw # 3 - Cyber Worship in Multifaith Perspectives
This is most recent review. Previous reviews [published in Sept 2006, Scarecrow Press]
Friday, November 10, 2006
100 best books of 2006 - Publishers Weekly
Thank you Seth for this info. And, there is no accounting for citing the cited source.
Publishers Weekly has recently published its list of the 100 best books of 2006. They only picked one book that might be considered a 'business' book. I'm sort of thrilled by this.
Thanks, guys. I guess there's no accounting for taste. Posted by Seth Godin
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Are we using the Web for sustainable and balanced development?
No. is answer from the Global village.
Make bandwidth available to all: Kalam
NEW DELHI: In the small but packed hall of a New Delhi hotel that hosted Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Infosys's Narayana Murthy and others, president Dr A P J Abdul Kalam gave the event’s opening keynote address on “Bridging the two Indias.”
Kalam said it was critical to make bandwidth available for inclusion, because “the less educated you are, the more bandwidth you need to communicate! The most educated can manage with asynchronous means like email…the less educated need voice--or video.”
NDTV’s Prannoy Roy moderated a discussion in which Ballmer, N R Narayana Murthy, Ashok Jhunjhunwala and Manvinder Singh of Ranbaxy participated.
Ravi Venkatesan kicked off the event, speaking of the contrasts in India: the millionaires and the malnourished children; the successful e-gov projects and the “graveyard of pilot projects.” Read the full news story
I thank Gail for identifying a new book:
Overselling the Web?: Development and the Internet, by Charles Kenny, Lynne Rienner Publishers 2006 [ Library of Congress catalog ]
"An important cautionary tale.... Kenny demonstrates that the irrational exuberance directed toward the internet as a tool for international development needs serious tempering."—Michael Best, Georgia Institute of Technology
I found some thing interesting and in the same direction (as above), to bring a balance in our thinking, in the following article:
A Critical Perspective on Access, Content and the Digital Divide
By: Oliver Moran | January 18, 2005
The current sense of urgency to adapt ICT in the social sphere, as opposed to the economic sphere where it is already prevalent and well integrated, is derived from the discourse of economic globalisation rather from a more practical desire to utilise the technology in socially-derived ways – building from the top down rather than from the ground up. This is not to discount the potential of the technology but to explain that, just as with the dot-com phenomenon, the technology on its own and certainly as it is presently provided is not good enough. It needs to be redesigned and fitted to benefit social practices and settings rather than be machines for business drafted-in for home or community use.
The above article illustrates the common ground, common concern to look the other way also--not just one way all the time everytime!!!!
I think both these sources talk almost same langugage---i.e., we must always have checks and balances in our developmental perspectives.
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Wednesday, November 01, 2006
The book that never grew up
PS. This is not from my desktop
The book that never grew up National Post, Paul Gessell, CanWest News Service, Monday, October 30,
The official sequel to Peter Pan rights some wrongs, the author tells Paul Gessell.
Peter Pan has undergone a transformation in the past century.
The original story, penned as a play in 1904 by oddball Scottish writer James Barrie, depicted Peter Pan as a sometimes endearing, sometimes murderous boy living forever as a child in Neverland.
Now we have the newly published, officially approved sequel, Peter Pan in Scarlet, by celebrated British children's writer Geraldine McCaughrean. Peter is still a mischievous, self-centred brat in the sequel but, as the author says, he's not quite so "vicious." Additionally, McCaughrean takes exception to the anti-mother and anti-adult sentiments expressed so forcefully in the original. Full story
Previous posts:
Book in Embryonic Stage - But Ready for Delivery
The book that never grew up National Post, Paul Gessell, CanWest News Service, Monday, October 30,
The official sequel to Peter Pan rights some wrongs, the author tells Paul Gessell.
Peter Pan has undergone a transformation in the past century.
The original story, penned as a play in 1904 by oddball Scottish writer James Barrie, depicted Peter Pan as a sometimes endearing, sometimes murderous boy living forever as a child in Neverland.
Now we have the newly published, officially approved sequel, Peter Pan in Scarlet, by celebrated British children's writer Geraldine McCaughrean. Peter is still a mischievous, self-centred brat in the sequel but, as the author says, he's not quite so "vicious." Additionally, McCaughrean takes exception to the anti-mother and anti-adult sentiments expressed so forcefully in the original. Full story
Previous posts:
Friday, October 27, 2006
Unheard history: Who didn’t say what
PS. This is not from my desktop
Unheard history: Who didn’t say what
London, Oct. 26: Mr Spock never uttered the words, “It’s life Jim, but not as we know it” to Enterprise captain James Kirk. And Napoleon did not coyly plead, “Not tonight, Josephine” to his lover. A book published by Oxford University Press this week explains how many of the most famous one-line quotations from history are either fiction or adaptations of the original. “We’re not trying to be clever and tell people that what they believe is wrong,” Ms Elizabeth Knowles, an editor of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations who wrote What They Didn’t Say, told AP on Wednesday.
“We are interested in the how these expressions have developed,” she said. “It’s language on the move.” Sherlock Holmes, for example, who is widely credited with saying “Elementary, my dear Watson” to his sidekick, only managed “Elementary,” once, in creator Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1894 short story The Crooked Man. The full phrase was coined 21 years later by the hero of P.G. Wodehouse’s Psmith, Journalist, Knowles says. Former Conservative Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, asked to name the greatest challenge of his leadership, replied, “The opposition of events.”
That was changed to “events, dear boy, events” by someone whom Ms Knowles has yet to identify. During an interview marking his engagement to Diana Spencer, Prince Charles was asked whether he was in love, and replied, somewhat diffidently, “Yes, whatever that may mean.” In common usage, that has been changed to “Whatever ‘in love’ means.”
“Given the sad history of the marriage, it takes on a new resonance,” said Ms Knowles. Misquotations often flourish, she said, “because they catch the moment better than the original. When we remember things, we all edit them.” According to her book, what the Star Trek hero Spock actually said was “No life as we know it.” It was changed in Star Trekkin’, a song released in 1987 by British band The Firm. What’s more, Captain Kirk and other members of the Enterprise crew did not issue the famous “Beam me up” order until the fourth Star Trek film when what Kirk said was, “Scotty, beam me up.”
The book adds that there is no record of the French queen, Marie Antoinette, speaking of the French peasantry, ever saying, “Let them eat cake.” “This is a case where someone who seemed to epitomise the thoughtless frivolity of the time comes together with a well-known phrase from later years,” said Ms Knowles. Similarly, “Not tonight, Josephine” came from the title of a 1915 song and was later mistakenly attributed to Napoleon, she said. [source: Deccan Chronicle on the web]
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Monday, October 23, 2006
Web Curator: A harvesting tool for use in libraries
NB. This following info is not from my desk:
PS. This is not a talk about the position of Web master (aka Web curator)
New Zealand-led partnership breaks new ground in the management of the world’s digital heritage by developing new system for collecting web pages for digital heritage archives.
The National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mãtauranga o Aotearoa, The British Library and Sytec, a subsidiary of TelstraClear, have announced the successful development of a web harvesting management system.
By Jill Hurst-Wahl @ mithdara's Bloglines Preserving Access to Our Digital Future: An International Symposium on Digital Curation, Chapel Hill, N.C., April 19-20, 2007
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