The Pew Research Center released another report last week, called “Teens and Technology 2013,” in their series discussing youth and privacy. Many libraries (correctly) look to…
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Nobody gets excited about copyright law (well, almost nobody), but over the years we’ve posted several items of copyright news in this blog, because many…
Many public libraries have active Facebook accounts, and many of them originally joined Facebook in an effort to connect with their younger library users. But…
How many passwords do you have? How many do you have trouble remembering? How many of your co-workers tape their passwords on the underside of…
OPLIN 4Cast #320: Storing data on DNA
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Seems like it has only been a few years since we were using 3.5″ floppy disks to store all the data we thought we needed.…
If you’ve been waiting with bated breath for the successor to the H.264 video codec, wait no more! On the other hand, if you think…
OPLIN 4Cast #318: Leaping ahead
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Over the past eight months or so, a new company in San Francisco called Leap Motion has been gathering attention in the computer world, culminating…
OPLIN 4Cast #317: Deadly information
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Aaron Swartz’ suicide last week was connected in unfortunate ways to the library world. He was being prosecuted by the United States Attorney’s Office for…