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The Pew Internet Project has new spring stats on blogging and blog readership: “Blog reading In our spring tracking survey we took two new measurements of blog reading, each of which captures a slightly different set of behaviors. Our first measure of blog readership uses the present-tense question, “Do you ever read someone else’s online [...]

The Channel Register has a report that Microsoft has released a tweaked version of Windows XP to run on the One Laptop Per Child XO computer: “Microsoft internally ‘RTM’ed’ the Windows XP version we are building for the OLPC XO computer. Windows on the XO looks like it is on track for availability in these [...]

Jenny Levine of the ShiftedLibrarian library blog has a posting on OCLC’s report called From Awareness to Funding: a study of library support in America: “You really need to read the whole thing for yourself, but there are some key points I want to highlight here. 1. Most residents don’t understand that their public library [...]

A friend of mine asked me for a recommendation for an online bookmarking tool he can use to keep a private bookmarks list with potentially thousands of items he can access and update from any computer. I know such tools exist. I can find many through Web searches. I’ve probably even written about them before. [...]

British singer, songwriter, producer Kate Bush turns 50, today, June 30. She inspired other female singers-songwriters such as Tori Amos and Sarah McLachlan among others into the music scene. I first saw her on Saturday Night Live many years ago and became an instant fan. Kate was the first singer to use a wireless microphone [...]

Registration for the Internet Librarian 2008 Conference: Beyond 2.0: User-Focused Tools & Practices being held on October 20-22, 2008 in Monterey, CA is now open: http://www.infotoday.com/il2008/ Usually there are discounts available through OCLC related networks. Hopefully I will get a chance to go this year. I know j went to one a couple of years [...]