Weekly Press Review (2011/11/11)

Another busy week. All the stress at work is finally getting to me (both mentally and physically). I am feeling really tired and definitely need a few days of vacation. The Holidays will probably be even crazier with all the work to move out the books from the library, so I better get some rest before then. I also just got the flu shot so my entire body hurts. And there's a zillion things that I still have to do in the new house. The heater in the guest room started slightly leaking again; I don't know yet what I'll do with that... The Montreal book fair is coming later this week and I'll probably attend some workshops about children & YA literature just to keep my mind sharp. Finally, I really hate Google: not only they changed the interface of Blogger, but also of Reader, not only making them more confusing but also eliminating the functions I was using to gather my links for this entry. That's why the Shared Items have not been updated in a while, so until I find an alternative solution (I'll investigate Digg, Google+ or others whenever I have time later this week) ALL my suggested links can be found bellow:

Anime & Manga related, Japan, Popular Culture

• Top 25 Manga Properties for Summer 2011 (ICv2)
• Comics in Turnaround? Different Answers by Format (ICv2)
• 'Game of Thrones' Moving Product Across Categories (ICv2)
• North American Stream List: October 31 to November 6 (ANN)
• A free Montreal Japanese Film Festival (Coco☆Montréal)
• Japan's digital divas take to the stage, wow fans (The Gazette)
• The Drops of God Manga Launch Celebrated with Wine-Tasting (ANN)
• Interview: Viz Media's Seiji Horibuchi on New People, Manga and Anime (ICv2)

Apple, apps and mobile devices news

• iTunes est un «vampire numérique», dénonce Pete Townshend (Cyberpresse)
• Bientôt une application iPhone pour Gmail? [ Oops! ] (Cyberpresse)
• New app uses brainwaves to track sleep quality (The Gazette)
• How Siri could change the 911 emergency system (TUAW)
• Doctor Who Encyclopedia released for iPad (MacNN)
• Watch PBS’s ‘Steve Jobs: One Last Thing’ Online, Right Here, Right Now (Cult of Mac)
• Does Apple's Voice Recognition Work Just as Well as Siri? (MacLife)
• Siri: Apple entre en concurrence directe avec Google (Cyberpresse)
• The Doctor Has An App Now. Apps Are Cool [Review] (Cult of Mac)
• Apple Store 2.0 brings Personal Pickup and EasyPay (GigaOM)
• Apple’s Newsstand a Huge Success for Digital Publishers (Wired)
• Apple launches iOS 5 update with potential battery fix (USA Today)

Books, Digital Edition & Library

• La fin de la librairie (1ère partie): Ce n’est pas l’internet qui a tué la librairie (Le Monde)
• De Dorval (Canada) à l'Angleterre de Cameron en passant par la pensée d'Edmund Burke (Bib92) [Confondre Le Sud-Ouest et Dorval: bravo les français!]
• La librairie numérique de Google arrive au Canada (Cyberpresse)
• Bientôt le 34e Salon du livre de Montréal (Le Devoir)
• The World's Most Amazing Databases: WorldCat (Popular Science) [Unfortunately, the data of the Montreal Libraries Network are not available on WorldCat...]
• Une campagne pour sauver Bibliothèque et Archives Canada (Radio-Canada)
• Amazon introduces free lending library for Prime members (TUAW)
• Paul à La Presse (Cyberpresse)
• Esi Edugyan's Half-Blood Blues wins Giller Prize (The Gazette)
• Kobo acquired by Japanese firm for $315 million (The Gazette)
• Rakuten signs agreement to purchase Kobo (Engadget)
• Japanese giant Rakuten buys Kobo ebook business (BBC)
• Amazon: l’industrialisation de la fidélisation (Le Monde)
• Alexandrie: papyrus et octets pour la bibliothèque (Le Monde)

Economy, Environment & International Politics

• Un Américain sur 15 vit dans la grande pauvreté (Métro Montréal)
• More boomers working past retirement (USA Today)

Health, home & garden

• Myths about the flu shot (The Gazette)
• Memory lapses caused by mental 'event boundary' (The Gazette)
• Le high-tech pour vieillir en restant chez soi (Le Monde)

Humour

Local News & National Politics

• Les éluEs du Sud-Ouest doivent reculer (La pointe libertaire)
• Conseil municipal: les citoyens participent à la démocratie! (Projet Montréal)
• Protestation pour le Bain Émard (Radio-Canada) [à la Première Chaine: Bulletin Regional du 2 novembre à 15h05, commence à 00:45]
• Faits saillants du conseil d'arrondissement du 1er novembre (lien) [Étrange changement de ton depuis le dernier conseil: “Le maire Dorais invite la population à demeurer mobilisée”?!]
• La première bibliothèque publique francophone du Canada (Avant l'autoroute)
• Sovereignty is wasted on the young, poll says (The Gazette)
• Pool protest: Evening News (Global)
• Manifestation contre la fermeture du Bain Émard (La Voix Pop)
• Bain Émard: pas de bouée de sauvetage de la ville centre (La Voix Pop)
• Le Bain Émard restera ouvert en 2012 ! (La Voix Pop)

Media, Culture, & Society

• Good Show! 'Downton Abbey' Gets a Third Season (AOLtv)
• Death to Amy Pond? 'Doctor Who' Star Karen Gillan Sounds Off (AOLtv)
• Pan Am obtient du renfort (Métro Montréal)
• The Criterion Collection comes to iTunes (TUAW)

Sciences & History

• Les lois de l'Univers sont contre nous (Le Monde)
• La «pierre de soleil» des Vikings n'est pas une légende (Cyberpresse)
• Photos: A walk through Montreal history (The Gazette)
• Genes of first settlers predominant in Quebec population (The Gazette)
• Montreal's new open data portal inspires historical photo site (The Gazette)

Technology, Gadgets & Internet

• Honda ASIMO robot goes autonomous, gets more flexible (Electronista)
• Honda's ASIMO robot sheds a few pounds, gets all autonomous on us (video) (Engadget)
• Les six familles du numérique en France (Le Monde)