All Things Considered on National Public Radio interviewed Wikipedia editor Justen Deal (Justen seems to be Wikipedia user j. Nice initial!) for a piece about Alaska governor Sarah Palin’s entry and recent edits to it. Did someone unintentionally leak the news of US presidential Republican candidate John McCain selecting her as his running mate via [...]
Yeah, ok, this post is a slight stretch, but since many of you have seen those shirts that say “She blinded me with library science,” I thought you might like to know that they’re from the Web comic Questionable Content, which is discussed in Friday’s Boston Globe. Some scenes in the comic happen in a [...]
I was thrilled to see Hiawatha Bray write about the Boston Public Library’s cool tools, the library’s value, and why researching via a library can be better than researching via Google. The tech reporter writes:
“[F]or deep research, you can’t beat a well-stocked library, with its books and specialized databases. Yet you can access many library [...]