Category: Internet

Ten Common Misconceptions To Social Media Adoption (And How You Can Respond)

Some of these suggestions could be very useful in a library setting if you're trying to encourage movement towards more technology-based solutions and are feeling resistance from colleagues

MapJack

I love when I see something that shows me what the future of the Internet will look like.  Though only available for San Francisco and a couple other

Randomness from the ALA e-newsletter and elsewhere

I may have mentioned before that the person I'm replacing at work is a member of ALA and, since he had his subscription to their e-mail newsletter, “American

Digital R/Evolution

If you're a nextgen librarian, this clip will likely make you feel all tingly!  (See also: Web 2.0 – The Machine Is Us/ing Us)

Five Things The Internet Is Killing (and One It Isn't)

[Edit: Here's a post I did on an Ask MetaFilter thread on the same subject.] Talking about some of the most useful sites online during the past three

LibraryThing Local

LibraryThing is already a wicked cool service but it's getting better all the time.  One of their latest features is LibraryThing Local which is “a new [LibraryThing] sub-site

IIPA Slam Canada For Not Fixing Copyright "Deficiencies", CBC to release program via BitTorrent DRM-free

A couple copyright-related stories that warm the cockles of my Canadian heart…While the inclusion of China and Russia on the “Priority Watch List” isn't surprising, the report also

Road Stats

If you're a regular reader of this blog, you know that I've been on the road for the past two months doing computer and Internet training at our

Link Dump (and Blog Survey Reminder)

Just clearing up some things I've come across recently.  I sometimes forget to make a note of where I found stuff so if I got this from you

Friday Fun Link – Google Sky (March 14, 2008)

Previously available as part of Google Earth, Google has just launched a web-based version of Google Sky which allows you to explore the universe from the comfort of

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