1. Virtual worlds in the hot seat As reported in the 4Cast last week, there are 100+ youth-oriented virtual worlds in existence. With that kind…
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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 #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…
OPLIN 4cast #68
Posted in digitization, eBooks, Face.com, Facebook Book Clubs, GIMP, Library 2.0, spam, and YouTube EDU
This week’s 4cast: 1. You Say You Want a Library 2.0 Revolution It’s been a year since Library Journal published an article calling for libraries…
OPLIN 4cast #66
Posted in Google, Google Reader, iPhones, Library vs. Internet, Playlist.io, spam, and wireless
This week’s 4cast: 1. You’ve Been Listening to Books Again, Haven’t You? The New York Times recently ran an article about audiobooks, and how some…
OPLIN 4cast #58
Posted in Myebook, NORWELD, Online Publishing, social network websites, spam, and Valve
This week’s 4cast: 1. Microsoft Surface Has Surfaced Microsoft recently unveiled the Surface computer – a flat tabletop touch screen that allows users to move…
OPLIN 4cast #31
Posted in filtering, newspapers, social network websites, and spam
This week’s 4cast: 1. Already Sick of Sharing? Social networking is still huge, but as more and more people (and libraries) join in, is the…
The topic of this week’s OPLIN 4cast Podcast is spam (the podcast itself is not spam, it’s just about spam). Find out how spammers get…
OPLIN 4cast #7
Posted in Flickr, social network websites, spam, and wiki
This week’s 4cast: 1. Wrangle Your Knowledge with a Wiki In a recent entry on the LibraryCrunch blog, Michael Casey wrote about the amount of…