Those folks at Pew have another report for us to digest…this time about mobile communication…using cell phones to do it all for you.
The full report is available at: Pew Internet & American Life Project.
So the question is where are you in this crowd below… Comment and reveal all to all! And guess where I fall [...]
Blind Spots – ChronicleReview.com.
Nanci pointed out this column to me today in The Chronicle of Higher Education. An interesting read about who should be doing what when it comes to magical thinking in applying technology solutions in the service of scholarship and within the library context.
” The design of new environments for performing scholarly work [...]
An editorial from Christian Science Monitor
Kindle e-reader: A Trojan horse for free thought By Emily Walshe
“Web 2.0 and its culture of collaboration supposedly unleashed a sharing society. But we can share only what we own. And as more and more content gets digitized, commercialized, and monopolized, our cultural integrity is threatened. The free and [...]
At the Tech Tuesday gathering in Campus Center this week Tom Laughner and Jo Cannon demonstrated and talked with a small group about uses for a “magic box” called Echo360. It’s designed for easy recording of an event – class, visiting lecture, multi-media performance, presentation, library instruction….? ETS has moved into the pilot [...]
From Slate’s the Big Money blog (right, as if…)
The Ultimate Google Killer? By Chris Thompson
“Google’s utility and power have remade the way we think, acquire knowledge, and live in the world, unleashing the power of the Web in ways we never thought possible 10 years ago. But it has always fallen short of its most ambitious [...]
A few interesting facts on student behavior.
Primary Research Group has published: The Survey of American College Students: Student Use of Library E-book Collections (ISBN #: 1-57440-113-0).
This report presents approximately 70 tables of data exploring how full time college students in the United States view and use their college library’s [...]
There are sometimes amusing entries in the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Wired Campus blog, such as this announcement about the release of an updated version of “Eliza,” the psychotherapist program:
Researchers Create Robotic Psychotherapist Inspired by 1960s Spoof
“Researchers at the City University of New York’s New York City College of Technology have updated a famous 1960s computer [...]
