It has been eleven years since the launch of Wikipedia changed the way people look for information on the Internet, and six years since the…
OPLIN 4Cast #276: Wikidata
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It has been eleven years since the launch of Wikipedia changed the way people look for information on the Internet, and six years since the…
Since about the turn of the century, when the World Wide Web became a regular part of most people’s lives, the conventional wisdom has been…
You may have seen some recent news articles about Google’s plans to make their search more “semantic.” What exactly does that mean? Well, people tend to…
The “Interactive” portion of this year’s SXSW (South by Southwest) Conference ended yesterday, and as we did last year, this 4cast reports on the current buzz…
We know ebooks are very popular right now, and it’s also proving to be pretty easy for authors to self-publish in ebook format (and even sometimes encouraged).…
After last week’s 4cast about possible legal issues for Pinterest users, we thought it might be interesting to look at the legal issues surrounding BitTorrent. Everybody…
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Be warned, this post is a little heavier on technical jargon than our usual posts because it’s about an emerging technology, called Thunderbolt, that you…
Surely you’ve heard about QR codes by now, and maybe your library is even exploring ways to put them to good use. Public libraries don’t seem…