Online Diaries That Feel Like the Real Thing-Penzu

 

Name: Penzu

Quick Pitch: Penzu is a free online diary and personal journal with a focus on privacy. Securely record your thoughts and ideas with the ease of writing on a pad of paper.

Genius Idea: A big part of blogging has always been about sharing your thoughts with others, but sometimes, you really just want to record your thoughts and keep them private — like you would in a traditional paper journal. Penzu brings the paper-journal experience (and aesthetic) to the web and offers private-entry by default and the ability to protect your entries with a password or high-level encryption.
 
Although most blogging or journaling platforms will let you make an entry private or select who it is shared with, the process isn’t always easy to manage. Plus, if someone has access to your account, they can still access your journal entries.

Because Penzu entries are private by default, the chances of your personal thoughts being seen by the wrong person are considerably lower. Also, because you can password protect or encrypt entries, even if someone breaks into your account (or you forget to log out or something), there can still be one more barrier protecting what you write from someone else’s eyes.

 

Penzu’s aesthetic looks like a piece of notebook paper — which is a pretty cute effect. If you do want to share an entry with someone, you can create a public entry for it and give it to whomever you choose. Unlike other journal or blogging services, there isn’t a main index of all entries – so only the links you share publicly are accessible.

Penzu is incredibly easy to use – if you’ve used Tumblr or any other instant-write platform, you’ll be comfortable. Penzu also recently introduced the ability to attach photos from Flickr — or your computer — to your journal entries.

For users who want more control, Penzu offers Penzu Pro. Penzu Pro is $19 a year and it offers the ability to customize your Penzu backgrounds, format text, control the date for your entries (so you can backdate old entries), import entries from LiveJournal and export entries as text or PDF files. Penzu Pro also offers 256-bit AES encryption in addition to the standard password-lock option available on free accounts.

If you want to keep a record of your thoughts, but you don’t want to share them with the world (or with Google), you might want to give Penzu a try. What tools do you use for recording your private thoughts?

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• Privacy First  Penzu was designed to focus on privacy. Unlike blogging, your entries are private by default! More →
• A Picture is Worth a Thousand…
  Insert your own photos (now with flickr) and bring your entries to life! More →
• Share if You Want To  You can share your individual entries via email or create a public link and share with the world. More →
• Autosaving  Write as much as you want for as long as you want and your work is saved as you type! More →
• Instant Search  Find long-lost entries quickly with our filtered search. Start typing and your results appear instantly. More →

 

 

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Go Mobile!  Use Penzu on your iPhone,iPad, Blackberry, and Android device. Instantly save, sync, and access offline.More →

Ultimate Privacy  With Penzu Pro, you can protect your entries with military-grade 256-bit AES encryption. More →

Express Yourself  Customize your entry backgrounds, pad style, and text formatting to suit your mood. More →

You Own Your Data  Your entries can be exported to multiple formats giving you more control over your private data. More →

Penzu Post  Send entries to your Penzu journal from any email address any time. Email setup@post.penzu.com to get started. More →

 

 

 

 

 

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SAGE Library News – August 2011

SAGE Library News – August 2011

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Forward to a friend Email alerts Safelist us SAGE Library News – August 2011 Welcome to the Summer Issue of SAGE Library News. Click on the links below to learn about the journals now published by SAGE, new rankings in the 2010 Journal Citation Reports, SAGE Reference Online Subject Collections, news from CQ Press, and more. Journals Now Published by SAGE SAGE Content is Highly Ranked in the 2010 Journal Citation Reports® SRMO Recognized for Excellence in Innovation and Navigation SAGE Open – Now Live! SAGE Sociology Website – Now Live! IFLA Conference SAGE Reference – New and Forthcoming Title Releases SAGE Hosted Event on Supporting Effective Communication and Workflows in Social Science Research News from CQ Press View past issues of the Library News. If you are not currently signed up to receive our quarterly e-newsletter, please sign up now. Sincerely, SAGE Library Team www.uk.sagepub.com/librarians

 

 

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British Libraries Push Back

Perpustakaan penyelidikan utama di Britain telah memberitahu kedua-dua penerbit jurnal terbesar bahawa mereka tidak akan memperbaharui 'tawaran besar "dengan mereka, jika mereka tidak membuat penurunan harga sebenar.

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Major research libraries in Britain have told the two largest journal publishers that they will not renew their "big deals" with them if they do not make significant real-terms price reductions.

Research Libraries UK, which includes the Russell Group university libraries, as well as Britain's national libraries and Trinity College Library Dublin, have told Elsevier and Wiley-Blackwell that they will not renew their current deals when they expire at the end of this year unless the concession is made

Big deals involve libraries paying a blanket fee for electronic access to a publisher’s entire journal catalog. They were initially welcomed by librarians when they were first introduced a decade ago. However, David Prosser, RLUK’s executive director, said consistent above-inflation price increases and the current squeeze on library budgets meant that big deals were accounting for an ever-greater proportion of libraries’ budgets and were no longer affordable.

Elsevier publishes around 2,000 journals, including The Lancet and Cell. Wiley-Blackwell publishes around 1,500 journals. Publishers argue that big deals have seen the unit cost of access to research articles drop considerably and that price rises are justified due to the ongoing expansion in research outputs and, consequently, journals.

But Prosser said publishers had made large savings from the shift to electronic submission and distribution, which had "not necessarily been passed on to the customer."

If the libraries cancel their big deals, they intend to make savings by buying only high-use journals from the publishers. Articles from lower-use journals will be shared between them in an electronic version of an inter-library loan. Prosser admitted that the publishers might react by putting up the price of high-use journals, but predicted that such a move would fall foul of competition authorities. He said he expected that libraries would already be talking to researchers about the titles that could be dropped with the least impact.

"It is not a question of whether we drop journals, it is a question of which we drop," he said. "In my view it is better to drop low-use titles bundled into packages than to drop medium-use titles from smaller publishers outside big deals [so that we maintain] a healthy publishing environment with a wide variety of publishers."

RLUK also wants publishers to quote prices and price rises in sterling so that library budgets are not affected by currency fluctuations.

"If you are spending over £1 million ($1.64 million) a year on one big deal those fluctuations can be quite significant," he said. "They should be a risk for commercial bodies to take on board rather than public sector bodies like universities."

He said Russell Group vice chancellors were backing the librarians’ stance, as was the National Union of Students.

Usman Ali, vice-president for higher education at the NUS, said: "For too long private publishing companies have been getting away with gouging universities on journal costs. It is time the publishing companies made themselves accountable to the wider academic community in the UK."

Elsevier and Wiley-Blackwell declined to comment.

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