Comments on: 10 Reasons to Love Web 2.0 – from a Flickr Dude http://www.davidleeking.com/2006/03/15/10-reasons-to-love-web-20-from-a-flickr-dude/ David Lee King is the Digital Branch & Services Manager at the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, where he plans, implements, and experiments with emerging technology trends. He has spoken in the U.S. and Canada about emerging trends, website usability and management, digital experience planning, and managing techie staff, and has been published in many library-related journals. David writes the Internet Spotlight column in Public Libraries Magazine with Michael Porter. David maintains a blog at http://www.davidleeking.com Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:50:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: startoy http://www.davidleeking.com/2006/03/15/10-reasons-to-love-web-20-from-a-flickr-dude/comment-page-1/#comment-23475 startoy Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:51:21 +0000 http://www.davidleeking.com/2006/03/15/10-reasons-to-love-web-20-from-a-flickr-dude/#comment-23475 there is also a large and comprehensive database of 800+ ajax scripts available with over at <br><br>ajaxflakes’s ajax scripts compound<br><br>thought i should add it might be helpful to others…<br><br><a href="http://scripts.ajaxflakes.com" rel="nofollow">http://scripts.ajaxflakes.com</a> <a href="http://www.scripts.ajaxflakes.com" rel="nofollow">here</a> there is also a large and comprehensive database of 800+ ajax scripts available with over at

ajaxflakes’s ajax scripts compound

thought i should add it might be helpful to others…

http://scripts.ajaxflakes.com here

]]> By: startoy http://www.davidleeking.com/2006/03/15/10-reasons-to-love-web-20-from-a-flickr-dude/comment-page-1/#comment-10945 startoy Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:50:19 +0000 http://www.davidleeking.com/2006/03/15/10-reasons-to-love-web-20-from-a-flickr-dude/#comment-10945 there is also a large and comprehensive database of 800+ ajax scripts available with over at ajaxflakes’s ajax scripts compound thought i should add it might be helpful to others… http://scripts.ajaxflakes.com <a href="http://www.scripts.ajaxflakes.com" rel="nofollow">here</a> there is also a large and comprehensive database of 800+ ajax scripts available with over at

ajaxflakes’s ajax scripts compound

thought i should add it might be helpful to others…

http://scripts.ajaxflakes.com here

]]> By: walt http://www.davidleeking.com/2006/03/15/10-reasons-to-love-web-20-from-a-flickr-dude/comment-page-1/#comment-229 walt Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:58:30 +0000 http://www.davidleeking.com/2006/03/15/10-reasons-to-love-web-20-from-a-flickr-dude/#comment-229 "6. Unicode * internationalization * localization - translation to other languages * store data in unicode - easier to translate should you decide to * UTF8 * He said “this bit’s getting a bit nerdy, isn’t it?” Me - What in the world is he talking about?" He's talking about internationalization, specifically the ability to handle multiple character sets. This shouldn't be any great mystery. Unicode--developed by a consortium of mostly tech industry companies with RLG as a founding member--provides a single encoding system capable of handling (nearly) all character sets. It's embedded in Windows (and I'd assume Mac OS and Linux, but don't know). UTF8 is the most common space-efficient encoding scheme for Unicode, as it "privileges" plain old ASCII by giving the lower 128 characters single-byte encoding, as opposed to the two-byte or three-byte encoding needed for tens of thousands of characters. The library world has been part of Unicode since the beginning. It's why the RLG Union Catalog can show Hebrew, Yiddish, Arabic, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean... and the way it was developed and implemented meant that for us to display right-to-left scripts took almost no effort: The browser/OS did the work. It may not be social software, but library techies should certainly know about Unicode. “6. Unicode

* internationalization
* localization – translation to other languages
* store data in unicode – easier to translate should you decide to
* UTF8
* He said “this bit’s getting a bit nerdy, isn’t it?”

Me – What in the world is he talking about?”

He’s talking about internationalization, specifically the ability to handle multiple character sets. This shouldn’t be any great mystery. Unicode–developed by a consortium of mostly tech industry companies with RLG as a founding member–provides a single encoding system capable of handling (nearly) all character sets.

It’s embedded in Windows (and I’d assume Mac OS and Linux, but don’t know). UTF8 is the most common space-efficient encoding scheme for Unicode, as it “privileges” plain old ASCII by giving the lower 128 characters single-byte encoding, as opposed to the two-byte or three-byte encoding needed for tens of thousands of characters.

The library world has been part of Unicode since the beginning. It’s why the RLG Union Catalog can show Hebrew, Yiddish, Arabic, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean… and the way it was developed and implemented meant that for us to display right-to-left scripts took almost no effort: The browser/OS did the work.

It may not be social software, but library techies should certainly know about Unicode.

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