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Earlier this month I disabled commenting because I was getting hundreds of spams a day for a few days. Last week I restored regular comments but kept trackback comments turned off so I could monitor the results, and have not received a single spam comment since then. So, I'm turning off trackbacks indefinitely in an effort to stamp out the the scum-sucking lowlifes who think getting bloggers angry actually sells mortgages and anatomical enhancement drugs.

The University of Toronto is recruiting an Executive Director, Project Open Source|Open Access. Closing date is August 12, 2005.

I've upgraded to the latest version of WordPress and have kept the default skin until I have time to restore some of the customizations I made in the older version (especially the all archives view). Everything appears to be working the same as before, but please let me know if you experience any problems.

Mark

AudioSlicer is a utility for Mac OS X that finds all silences in an audio file and allows you to split it into several smaller audio files and to name/tag them properly. There are other utilities that split audio files on pauses, but AudioSlicer allows you to adjust the length of the duration to split on. MP3 is the only supported format currently but others are planned.

ICADL2005 (12-15 December 2005, Bangkok, Thailand ) is the 8th annual conference on Asian Digital Libraries. This year's theme is "Implementing Strategies and Sharing Experiences" and the conference will focus on the creation, adoption, implementation and utilization of digital libraries.

Yesterday's Deutsche Welle published this article announcing that nineteen European national libraries are funding a project to counterbalance Google's anglocentric digitization of research library material. The European project aims to digitize 4.5 billion pages of text.