I read a blip on Boston Common from Amy about how some Blockbuster franchises are still charging late fees. She includes the fine print on her weblog. Apparently their latest advertising campaign about how they’ve eliminated late fees omits some details.
Late fees or no, I don’t understand why people might pay more money to rent [...]
This presentation via The Virtual Chase is something I’ll definitely have to look at later. It covers the use of Atom and RSS feeds in research.
spied it on the ResourceShelf
The Harvard Crimson, one of Harvard University’s student newspapers, reports on a meeting about the Harvard College Library in which professors and students spoke out in support of increased funding. The Harvard College Library is a library system within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which includes Harvard College, the Graduate School of Arts and [...]
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society reports Apple is taking action against bloggers who, before MacWorld, revealed secrets about products to be announced at the conference. mbridges includes many links to more information, including an article about a Harvard student Apple is suing and a case the Electronic Frontier Foundation is defending. At issue [...]
Michael Stephens lists twelve things–from feeds for Web sites to open source software to digital rights management–information professionals should know about in 2005.
from Librarian.net
Ha! Just after posting this list about technology, I serendipitously discovered these words of wisdom from Jared Dunn:
"… why doesn’t anyone step back and try to put any of [the new technology [...]