NPR – “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 engage children in summer reading activities at local libraries.”
EcontentMag – “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 creating it. So, we’ve taken matters into our own hands.”
Read/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 to May 2009. Users also started to spend far more time on Twitter in recent months. In May 2008, the average user spent about 6 minutes on Twitter.com, while this number has now grown to more than 17 minutes (Note: as far as we can see these numbers don’t seem to take users who use third-party clients into account).”
Read/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 by text message than being able to use library resources over the mobile web.”
Lehighvalleylive.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.”
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Farhad Manjoo – “Why newsprint still beats the Kindle.”
NJ.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 tweets.”
Book 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 from libraries and don’t purchase many books.”
NYTimes – “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 companies, movie studios and publishers, among others, are trying to figure out ways to get consumers to pay for their content online, advertising is moving in the other direction.”
The Honolulu Advertiser – “Clergy turn to blogging, YouTube, Twitter to build congregations”
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