My favorite librarian sent me a translation of an interview of Umberto Eco in the Frankfurter Rundschau about technology and libraries. He thinks of the Internet and computers as ways of complementing our memories and uses a large portable drive onto which he downloaded many digitized books as an example. He discusses the challenges of […]
The hot news from SXSWi (South by Soutwest interactive), a tech conference in Austin, Texas, is how a journalist put herself into the interview with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg instead of simply interviewing him from a distance, as planned.
CNet reporter Daniel Terdiman writes:
"The reality is, I thought the substance of her interview was pretty strong. […]
The March issue of Information Today features Facebook 101: Ten Things You Need to Know About Facebook. As the title suggests, the article goes through ten items, like how many people are on Facebook, privacy, why and how to use Facebook, and what advertisers and businesses are doing there.
Facebook is a really popular, robust, […]
Slate has a slideshow discussing the library of the future and its archicture by showing recent library architecture and discussing the innovations related to the idea of a library as more than just a storage facility for books.
Todd shares some thoughts via the thread in Babbledog.
Folks from a news and blog project in Somerville, Massachusetts, will be the guests at Thursday’s blog group. This meeting might appeal to some of you local journalists.
"This week, Barry Rafkind and other folks from Somerville Voices will join us talk about what they’re doing. Somerville Voices is a new collaborative news & features blog […]
Ask.com cut 40 positions on March 4 including Gary Price who also edits the ResourceShelf and DocuTicker blogs. The layoffs are “part of a restructuring to refocus the search company toward providing answers to its core audience of women searching on entertainment, health, and reference topics, the company said on Tuesday.”
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Stephen Abram of Stephen’s Lighthouse […]
From Wikipedia:
Theodor Seuss Geisel (March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991) was an American writer and cartoonist best known for his classic children’s books under the pen name Dr. Seuss, including The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, How the Grinch Stole Christmas and One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish. His […]
Since I recently wrote about what the data unit at Renesys does, using the recent telecommunication cable breaks as an example, I wasn’t so sure about writing about it again with the news last week. In trying to censor the popular video Web site YouTube, Pakistan inadvertently blocked most of the traffic to the site […]