In a second attempt to boost its sales by picturing Aaron Swartz on the front page, The Boston Globe introduces us to some entreprenuers and their tech projects.
By the way, if you think I’m busy, you should read Aaron’s blog post about what he’s doing now. It makes my life seem simple.
This article is a […]
Hugh MacLeod has a post that keeps on giving on gapingvoid about social media, search, connecting to people, and recommendations. I really like the post a lot. That becomes more evident to me as I continue to think about it and a number of ways I could talk about it in this space. I already […]
The director of the Center for Reading and Language Research at Tufts University, Maryanne Wolf, ponders at what point children should be introduced to online tools in a Boston Globe piece.
"More specifically, in the expert reading brain, the first milliseconds of decoding have become virtually automatic within that circuit. It is this automaticity that allows […]
Marian Dworaczek of the University of Saskatchewan Library has compiled a listing of library related conferences in the United States and around the world:
http://homepage.usask.ca/~mad204/CONF.HTM
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“Join Digital Commonwealth for its second annual digital library conference on October 25 at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester. We celebrate the launch of the new Digital Commonwealth portal with a full day of content for all cultural institutions that have an interest in digital libraries, including historical societies and commissions, museums, archives, […]
The Internet Librarian 2007 is being held on October 29-31, 2007 at the Monterey Conference Center in Monterey, California.
NELINET, the New England regional network for OCLC, is offering NELINET members special rates:
* $169 - Internet@Schools (October 29 - 30, 2007) - Reg. $199
* $255 - Combo […]
PodCamp Boston 2 is being held on October 26-28, 2007 at the new Boston Convention Center in South Boston. Topics include blogging, podcasting, social networking, video on the Net and new media. It’s free, but you have to register. For more info:
http://www.podcampboston.org/
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“Mozilla 24″ is a worldwide, 24-hour open discussion that connects community members, academics and Web visionaries from Asia, America and Europe, in person and over the broadband video WIDE network. The event will feature industry leaders who will present on Web trends and technologies that will help shape the future of the Web. It will […]
With a combination of the Internet and public domain material, some students have less to carry to class. Yay to fewer back problems!
Y’all catch Judy Blume on Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! this weekend? I remember my Mom reading me books she authored. I read a few on my own, too. Blume talks about her work and being the author of banned books during the Not My Job segment of the radio show.