Wikipedia has problems. Now twelve years old, the online encyclopedia has developed some ailments that can be traced directly back to the volunteer editors of…
OPLIN 4cast #358: Wikipedia troubles
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Wikipedia has problems. Now twelve years old, the online encyclopedia has developed some ailments that can be traced directly back to the volunteer editors of…
Over the past couple of months, Dan Goodin wrote two articles in Ars Technica about password and passphrase protection that have been widely quoted in…
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A couple of weeks ago, the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) released the BARD mobile app for iOS devices, with…
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There is a strong temptation among libraries to be all things to all people. As the inscription over the front door of the Columbus Metropolitan…
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Several articles appeared last week about a study suggesting that e-readers are better for people with dyslexia than paper-printed texts. Actually, this study was just…
We’ve recently seen a couple of intriguing stories about research projects involving unexpected uses of hands. One project uses vortices of air to enable people…
There’s a quiet revolution going on in the way information is presented on the web. Largely driven by the preferences of mobile web users, web…
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Librarians seem to love acronyms – at least we seem to use a lot of them – so here’s one to watch in the near…
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Modern smartphones contain quite a few sensors that apps can use to gather data about you. The tri-axial accelerometer, for example, can be used by…