September 11, 2009 – 9:38 am
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11th September 2009, The monthly “Library 2.0 Gang” podcast guest is Orion Pozo from North Carolina State University. They’ve rolled out a reader loan service with a couple of Sony Readers and a few dozen Kindles of various versions for students. Users select books to be loaded on the Kindle via an online request [...]
From the New York Times, State of the Art, By David Pogue:
Bing, the Imitator, Often Goes Google One Better
“…And now we have yet another me-too effort. It’s something called Bing, and it’s the latest iteration of Microsoft’s multiyear attempt to imitate Google.
The name, presumably, is supposed to evoke the sound of a winning [...]
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 [...]
February 6, 2009 – 12:22 pm
There are some very interesting bits in the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Wired campus : education-technology news from around the Web. Here are some snippets to entice you to follow the links:
“Lev Gonick: More on What Wikis Teach Us About Leadership”
“It is time for new leadership rules to align organizations to the realities of the [...]
December 10, 2008 – 12:26 pm
Page through old magazines on Google Book Search
By Jacqui Cheng [Ars Technica]
Google’s book search is no longer limited to just books—now, users can turn up magazine results when hunting through the electronic versions of dead trees. The company announced Tuesday that it had begun an initiative to add magazine archives (in addition to current [...]
October 29, 2008 – 5:37 pm
So, were you wondering how Google was going to make money on Google Books?
I was…but I naively thought it would be through advertising or book sales of out-of-print or in-print titles. Well I was right about the sales, but I’m just not entrepreneurial enough. What does “Paid Full View” in the graphic below from Google’s [...]
Here’s a link to an article in Serials Review by Steve Shadle, talking up WorldCat Local as implemented at the University of Washington:
The Local Catalog Is Dead! Long Live the Local Catalog!
He notes that the “igeneration” (roughly those born from 1981 to 1999) demand instant gratification a la Google, and go there for topic identification [...]
Apparently Google spurned attending the ALA annual conference: “ ‘only one short plane ride away from the Googleplex’ also in California,” sniffed some bloggers.
See this story in the Chronicle’s Wired Campus column (and be sure to read the comments it stirred up, for such choice bits as “Your ignorant swipe at librarians really does not [...]
As one might expect, much reaction to the Google=Stupid argument out in the Blogosphere:
Here is Stowe Boyd, from /Message, operating manual for the social revolution
http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/2008/06/connecting-the.html
As we expose ourselves to a flow of information, running at a faster and significantly more conversational pace, two things are happening at once:
Small Pieces, Loosely Joined — Instead of [...]
I decided to post this, rather than just comment on the last post. I’m still thinking through, and trying to answer, the article “Is Google making us stupid.” I don’t think so, but I also don’t think Google is making us “smarter,” just more aware and less dependent on memory. It is another tool, [...]
