29 Web Apps For Students and White Collar Workers – lots of cool sites here, many of which I'd never seen before.In other news, I had a surreal
Last night, various Reddit users posted links to stories from ABC and other news outlets reporting that the Secret Service had been dispatched to the home of Senator
In undergrad, I went to a speed reading seminar put on by the Psych Students Association. Basically, the instructor said that if you just kept training yourself to
I'm getting so many tabs open in Firefox that it's time for a patented Jason Hammond Link Dump. (That sounds awful. I should come up with a better
AskMetaFilter recently featured an interesting question about how many books in a typical University library rarely or never get used.It was timely for me because, although I'm in
Wikipedia is failing an essay on Wikipedia that's on Wikipedia.
From the “no duh!” files, the Library of Congress has come out officially as saying that Digital Rights Management is a serious obstacle to archiving materials.But copyright law
I've previously written about the 2.0-esque campaign that Barack Obama has run this year – embracing cutting-edge technology, bottom-up organizing, social networking, the wisdom of crowds and all
Last December, I wrote about the announcement of Google Knol, a similar service to Wikipedia but with moderation of articles and the ubiquitous Google Ads. The site has
When Jessamyn West was here for SLA, this topic came up at the after-event gathering. I meant to post something about it at that time when the story
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