Archive for June, 2009
Is Facebook an Israeli plot to control the world?
June 30th, 2009Jerusalem Post – “Why would the Israelis want to control the world when they are having a hard enough time trying to control themselves? Still, it’s a question worth pondering especially in the age of the Internet and the rise of the Zionist conspiracy called “Facebook.” Let’s “faceit,” Facebook has a very strong Israeli face. [...]
Flickr2Twitter: Flickr Enters the Twitter Stream
June 30th, 2009Mashable – “Flickr has just released their long awaited feature for posting photos to Twitter. It’s been in beta over the past few weeks, but now it’s live for everyone.”
Moire here
Firefox 3.5 vs. Chrome 3 Showdown, Round 2: Are bookmarks outmoded?
June 30th, 2009Betanews – “You remember bookmarks, don’t you? How folks used to recall Web pages they’d visited, back before the Google Toolbar? One Web browser still remembers.”
Round 1 here.
Firefox 3.5: Excellent for fans, but competition getting tougher
June 30th, 2009The Download Blog – “Firefox 3.5 brings the world’s second-most popular browser up to speed with current browsing technology and trends, and perhaps nudges it just a bit ahead of the competition. However, it is by no means the leap ahead that its predecessor Firefox 3 was, and it’s clear that the competition isn’t going [...]
Health and safety ban coffee morning pensioners at public library…
June 28th, 2009Mail Online – “A group of pensioners have been banned from holding a coffee morning at a public library for health and safety reasons – in case they spill hot drinks on children. The seven members of the Over 50s coffee morning have been meeting every Tuesday for the past four years without incident [...]
Brigham Young University Lifts YouTube Ban After 3 Years
June 28th, 2009AP – “Administrators lifted the ban on Friday, citing an increasing amount of educational material on the popular video-sharing site, university spokeswoman Carri Jenkins said. YouTube has its own filters for porn, but BYU added it to the list of Web sites blocked by campus online filters in 2006 because administrators felt there was [...]
Firefox 3.5 eyed for Tuesday release
June 28th, 2009PC World – “A key feature of the browser is the TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, which boosts performance and stability. Indeed, speed has been stressed as a key attraction of the upgrade.”
Shelf Life: Information Overload
June 28th, 2009Utne Reader – “Lately, discussions of reading and literacy tend to devolve into polarized positions and alarmist rhetoric. On one side, fogey-nostalgist-book-loving types argue that the web is bad for reading, dumbing us down, destroying our attention spans, distracting us from classic texts. On the other, hip young techies excitedly point to the good things [...]
Drew Carey on Proposed Ohio Library Budget Cuts
June 28th, 2009Cleveland Leader – “Comedian Drew Carey, who grew up in Cleveland, is a proud supporter of public libraries in Ohio. In 2000 he donated all his winnings ($500,000) from an appearance on a special celebrity edition of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” to Ohio public libraries, and was also at the same time working [...]
Heads of top U.S. companies snub blogs, Facebook: study
June 28th, 2009Reuters – “The heads of the top U.S. companies might be engaged in the boardroom, but they’re switched off when it comes to social media, according to a new study that said CEOs should be more connected to their customers. Research conducted by the blog UberCEO.com looked at Fortune’s 2009 list of the top [...]
Waiver of San Francisco library fee lures lax back to the stacks
June 28th, 2009AP – “Capt. Chesley B. Sullenberger may have the best excuse for overdue library books; his got rather damp following a spectacular jet landing in the Hudson River. But people from all over the San Francisco Bay area came up with some decent, or at least inventive, explanations for their tardy tomes under a [...]
BookBump
June 27th, 2009BookBump – “a simple, yet comprehensive application offering intuitive book-management solutions.”
Five Minutes in the Dark to support Save Ohio Libraries
June 27th, 2009The Star Beacon – ‘All over the state of Ohio, libraries were demonstrating the possible devastating effect of Gov. Ted Strickland’s proposed extra 30 percent cut of federal funds to Ohio’s libraries by shutting off their lights for five minutes at noon on Friday.’
Aardvark’s Personal Touch to Online Advice
June 27th, 2009NYTimes – “Seeing an unmet opportunity, companies are piling into the online advice business. Last month, Microsoft began marketing Bing, its renamed search engine, as its “new Decision Engine.†In fact, however, it’s too timid when it comes to subjective advice. Bing still gives you links to Web sites you must wade through yourself, when [...]
Track The Ohio Budget Cuts
June 25th, 2009Over at Google News
Or Twitter
Interesting items Colorado Libraries check out to people!
June 25th, 2009An interesting list. Bones?!
Google News RSS Search Changes
June 25th, 2009This is a great change. I have never seen this for a search feed in Google.
Unlike Public Libraries, OhioLINK Faces Smaller Budget Cut
June 25th, 2009Library Journal – “Public libraries in Ohio face an unprecedented cut in state funding, to be resolved by June 30. But what about OhioLINK, the Ohio Library and Information Network a consortium of 88 Ohio college and university libraries, and the State Library of Ohio?”
Intellectual Property vs. Creative Freedom: Can J.D. Salinger stop a Catcher in the Rye sequel?
June 25th, 2009Reason Magazine – “Can the authorities in a free country ban a book? Surprisingly, the answer is yes: last week, a federal judge in New York imposed a temporary restraining order on the publication of a novel called 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye. At issue is a copyright infringement lawsuit by [...]
Wired Editor Steals Content for Book Saying Content Should be Free
June 23rd, 2009Gawker – “Chris Anderson has been caught lifting huge chunks out of Wikipedia for his book Free. The irony speaks for itself. But it’s worth noting that the Wired editor’s excuses are disconcertingly clichéd.”
Moms Stack Summer Books For Kids
June 23rd, 2009NPR – “Summer’s officially here, and many parents find that its a good time to get kids to pick up a good book. Sari Feldman, of the Public Library Association, along with regular parenting contributor Jolene Ivey, share books that should be on every child’s reading list this summer. The women also discuss how to [...]
Headline Blogging: Elevating the Twitter Conversation
June 23rd, 2009EcontentMag – “Our little Twitter is growing up. The time has come for us to come to terms with this fact, and take our Tweets to the next level. Mature Twitterers (those of us who have been around longer than Ashton Kutcher) are tired of the noise, and certainly don’t want to be the ones [...]
Study: Users Spend More Time on Social Networks Than Ever Before, but Twitter’s Growth Slows Down
June 23rd, 2009Read/Write/Web – “According to a new study from Nielsen, Internet users spend more time on social networks and blogs in May 2009 than ever before. The total number of minutes increased 82% year-over-year. Unsurprisingly, Twitter saw the largest gain in total new users among social networks, with a 1,448% increase in visitors from May 2008 [...]
Libraries, eBooks, and the Mobile Web: A Long Ways to Go
June 22nd, 2009Read/Write/Web – “According to a new report from Cambridge University (PDF), students aren’t interested in being able to read eBooks and eJournals on their mobile phones. Instead, users are far more interested in opening hours, location maps, contact info, and access to the library catalog. Most respondents were also far more interested in getting alerts [...]
Nazareth rescinds 7-year-old Tatamy boy’s library privileges over residency
June 22nd, 2009Lehighvalleylive.com – “The 7-year-old didn’t do anything wrong. He just had some fun at the library on the day a Morning Call photographer turned up to snap photos.”
Oy!
More at Fark
Why the newspaper still beats the Amazon Kindle
June 21st, 2009Farhad Manjoo – “Why newsprint still beats the Kindle.”
Companies take time to Twitter
June 21st, 2009NJ.com – “Gary Vaynerchuk’s powerhouse wine business was largely engineered by his Twitter alter ego: @garyvee. Sitting in his quiet third-floor office, he spends much of the workday deftly penetrating the Twittersphere. “I’ll do this for hours,” he said, loading his Twitter page and scanning the replenishing feed of short posts — called [...]
Should Your Book Be In Libraries?
June 21st, 2009Book Marketing Maven – “Some authors and publishers worry that having their books offered for free check out in libraries will hurt consumer sales. This is probably more of an issue with fiction than with nonfiction. But many people who check out fiction in libraries are voracious readers who get most of their reading material [...]
A New Way to Spread the Word
June 21st, 2009NYTimes – “Advertisers did not suddenly wake up to the Internet; they have been shifting growing portions of their budgets online for years. But the popularity of social networking and other Web 2.0 phenomena is helping them use consumers to spread the word for them, allowing them to cut down on paid advertising. While music [...]
Marketing now a must
June 20th, 2009The Honolulu Advertiser – “Clergy turn to blogging, YouTube, Twitter to build congregations”
