As librarians, we place great value on accurate, unbiased information. Perhaps the most frustrating thing for us in regard to current internet trends is the…
OPLIN 4cast #561: Selective truth
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OPLIN 4cast #559: Data = money
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This past week, news broke of yet another huge data breach, this time involving the financial data of 143 million people that was stolen from…
Last Thursday, comScore released their 2017 U.S. Mobile App Report, which tracks the amount of digital media consumption on mobile devices, who is consuming that…
Before last weekend gave a whole new meaning to “Charlottesville” and before GoDaddy and Google and several other web hosting companies refused to host a…
OPLIN 4Cast #553: PCs, who needs them?
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I recently read a blog post – the first linked article below – by Benedict Evans that makes some interesting points about what we usually…
OPLIN 4Cast #551: Secret messages
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Here’s one for the folks who like spy stories. On June 5, The Intercept published a top secret National Security Agency report on election-related Russian…
OPLIN 4cast #548: Telephone attacks
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Here’s something to add to your anxiety closet. We are starting to hear reports of libraries whose VoIP telephone systems have been hacked. Many of…
OPLIN 4cast #546: Voice searching
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Two weeks ago, Mary Meeker presented her annual, highly anticipated internet trends report, complete with a deck of 355 slides. We have posted about the…
Back in January, the American Library Association published a report [pdf] on the activities of school and public libraries aimed at teaching children to write…
OPLIN 4cast #542: Ebooks vs print books
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A little more than three years ago, we posted a 4cast about speculation that ebook sales were ready to start into a decline. Current sales…