Due to the upcoming holidays, there will be no 4cast for the next two weeks. It will resume publication on January 8th, 2008. See you…
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4cast #83: Knol, Spam, Identity, Jargon
Posted in authors, Google, Microsoft Office, privacy, spam, Valve, and Wikipedia
This week’s 4cast: 1. Watch Your Back, Wikipedia As Wikipedia has become increasingly huge (see 4cast #72, item 4), it was inevitable that for-profit competitors…
4cast #82: SAFE Act, Broadband, Search Trends, Beyond Google
Posted in Boxee, Cinematic Internet, Google, iPhones, Reference Extract, TouchGraph, Valve, and wireless
This week’s 4cast: 1. Good Guys, Bad Guys & Wi-Fi When the U.S. House of Representatives passed the SAFE Act last week, it sent a…
4cast #81: Spectrum Auction, Kindle, Reading, Gaming
Posted in eBooks, games, Google, iPhones, Playlist.io, Social Networks, and wireless
This week’s 4cast: 1. Sold! To the Giant Corporation with Deep Pockets, in the Back. In January, the FCC will auction off the 700-MHz broadcast…
No 4cast this week
Posted in 4cast
Between holiday travels, Monday Night Football, and trips to Kent State, there’s has been precious little time to wrangle together a 4cast. We’ll be back…
4cast #80: Kindle, Firefox, Manifestos, SEO
Posted in Cinematic Internet, Firefox, GoogleVoice, Obama, and Social Networks
This week’s 4cast: 1. Amazon’s Kindle Starts a Fire The Kindle (Amazon’s new wireless, handheld eBook device) was released this week, followed by lots and…
4cast Podcast #25: Library Web Presence
Posted in 4pod, Add new tag, blogs, Cinematic Internet, Let Simon Decide, social network websites, Video searches, and Wikipedia
For years, libraries have been issued the challenge of creating an effective (but not overly invasive) web presence. For many libraries, the extent of this…
4cast #79: Library 2.0, Shelfari, Audiobooks, Portable Apps
Posted in CastTV, GIMP, Google Reader, Library 2.0, LibraryThing, portable apps, social network websites, and spam
This week’s 4cast: 1. Okay Librarians… What Now? Several recent library blog posts have generated a lot of online discussion about the future of libraries…
4cast #78: Digitization, OpenSocial, ILS, Websites
Posted in Add new tag, Apple, digitization, Diigo, Evergreen, Federal Register, Google, Obama, social network websites, Videosurf, and web design
This week’s 4cast: 1. Don’t Digitize That Obituary Just Yet Anthony Grafton writes in The New Yorker that massive digitization projects (such as Google Book…
4cast #77: IL2007, OCLC Report, Twine, Catalogs
Posted in blogs, Boss & Vertical Lens, Company Buzz, Google News Archive Search, OPAC, social network websites, Truveo, and Video searches
This week’s 4cast: 1. Do You Know the Way to Monterey? The Internet Librarian 2007 conference is underway in Monterey, California, and many of the…