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By JULIA ANGWIN And STEVE STECKLOW At 1 a.m. on May 7, the website PatientsLikeMe.com noticed suspicious activity on its "Mood" discussion board.
Librarians: Masters of the info universe
CNN librarian Kerith Page McFadden works at her desk in Washington. It's National Library Week; past library workers include world leaders and a famous lover "Star Wars" creator George Lucas has his own research library on his Skywalker Ranch.
I’ve been using Apple’s .mac service for years, since 2001 as a matter of fact. The recent upgrade from .Mac to MobileMe has garnered a lot of press for the problems, breakdowns and failures of the service meant to “push” data to my iPhone, my Macs and to the service itself, described as a “cloud.” Luckily I haven’t had much issue with the upgrade/switchover.
How Can Libraries Use the Cloud? Tame The Web
Take data that you and I have already paid a government agency to collect, and post it online in a way that computer programmers can easily use. Then wait a few months.
How Government Data Can Improve Lives - Economic View
As the world embraces its digital age — two billion people now use the Internet regularly — the line delineating two Americas has become more broadly drawn.
Digital Age is Slow to Arrive in Rural America
39;s February 2011 Trend Briefing covering CITYSUMERS
Consumers are more demanding, time-starved, informed, and choice-saturated than ever-before. For brands to prosper, the solution is simple: become SERVILE. SERVILE means turning your brand into a lifestyle servant focused on catering to the needs, desires and whims of your customers, wherever and whenever they are.
The State of The Music Industry & the Delegitimization of Artists (TuneCorner)
- a Six Part Series by Jeff Price Part I: Music Purchases and Net Revenue For Artists Are Up, Gross Revenue for Labels is Down
State of the indy music industry looks rosy, so why all the doom-and-gloom about music?
TuneCore's Jeff Price has a six-part series analyzing the financial state of the music industry from the point of view of an independent artist.I've argued for some time that there are no longer any plausible scenarios by which a format will ever go obsolete if it has been in wide use since the advent of the Web in 1995. In that time no-one has shown me a convincing counter-example; a format in wide use since 1995 in which content is no longer practically accessible. I accept that many formats from before 1995 need software archeology, and that there are special cases such as games and other content protected by DRM which pose primarily legal rather than technical problems.
39;s Blog: The Half-Life of Digital Formats
Every fall, a new group of graduate students arrives in the classroom on their way to becoming librarians and information professionals.Each group is full of energy and ideas, and ready to take on the world. Each student believes in the power of information, even before they fully realize the power that information holds. Every person is willing to make sacrifices in order to reach his/her goal.
What I want LIS students to know
Old news ... the London Review of Books is no longer top of young people's reading lists as other literary magazines embrace technology.