From WXRT in Chicago comes Lin’s Bin, a segment where Lin Brehmer answers a listener’s question. This episode has to do with why librarians are cool. It includes lots of famous snippets, including those fabulous words of Evelyn Carnahan, the librarian in The Mummy, that make some of us stand up and cheer in crowded […]
RSS4Lib features Netherlands-based Feed XS, a tool which allows people to create the content for RSS feeds, to publish something directly as a feed. It’s a way of making a feed without using some software platform, like blog software, to do it.
Why publish just a feed? Well, I learned about a year ago about people […]
beSpacific and the Mad Librarian have some links to information about the Department of Justice’s request of Google’s records related to pornography in an attempt to learn more about minors’ access to pornography and Google’s hesitancy to release those records to the DOJ.
Addenda 1/21: The radio show Weekend America talks with Sherry Turkle, an MIT […]
beSpacific mentions an article about three studies dealing with how quickly people evaluate Web sites. Many do it in fractions of a second–much quicker than some Web designers think it happens.
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The radio show Car Talk now offers its puzzler and new columns via RSS.
(Yes, the typo is intentional. I’m trying hard to be funny.)