We Are Living in the Future

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Booktorrent! The Bookmobile as Rural Filesharing Network - The Awl

Certainly on point for today's world when bookmobiles provide "file sharing" to elders who are totally analog and off-line.

Saturday, July 17, 2010

New E-reading Device, the Kno, Targets Textbook Market : Page 1 of 1 : Book Business

This may be it, the ebook reader that will work for textbooks. It has two 14" touch screens so it displays textbooks as they look when printed on paper. The five minute video explains more.

Monday, July 12, 2010

Seven Days with the iPad: An Accessibility Evaluation - AccessWorld� - July 2010

"...this app knocks the Kindle and the Sony Reader devices out of the ring as far as accessibility and usability."

--Darren Burton, Access World

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

ALA | Issues & Advocacy

The American Library Association has a great web-based system so that we voters can let our elected representatives know how we feel about library-related legislation.

Click the link and let yourself be heard. It takes only a few minutes, and after you have used the system once, you can quickly weigh in on future matters.

Monday, June 28, 2010

Losing Libraries

This is grim -- it's a live map of library closures and cut-backs in the US. Great technology. Wish it were showing library openings, instead.

Monday, June 14, 2010

Brooklyn Read-In Marathon Protests Library Cuts - NYTimes.com

Librarians should be doing this in other states, too, rather than passively accepting budget cuts.

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Your Brain on Computers - Plugged-In Parents - NYTimes.com

This makes an interesting follow-up to Bill Snyder's article on Suicide, Stupidity and the iPhone. It's about the detrimental effects on children when their parents are so preoccupied with electronic communication that the parents cannot pull themselves away from it in order to have meaningful interactions with their children.