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Monday, August 16, 2010

Your Brain Away from Technology

Today's NYT had a long, anecdotal article about a group of neuroscientists going rafting to see if being away from electronic communication would benefit their thought processes. Interesting but without any definite conclusions.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/16/technology/16brain.html

Friday, August 6, 2010

Inside Google Books: Books of the world, stand up and be counted! All 129,864,880 of you.

Google announced, yesterday, that by their count there are about 130 million books in the world. Interestingly, they found many metadata errors, such as multple books assigned the same ISBN, and even a thousand t-shirts with ISBNs. Their post is worth reading for anyone interested in books and cataloging.

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.