One of the big news items this week was the resignation of CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus after the FBI monitored his emails and found…
OPLIN 4Cast #308: We are being watched
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One of the big news items this week was the resignation of CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus after the FBI monitored his emails and found…
A couple of recent news items about publishing caught our attention and got us thinking. Bowker reported that “the number of print and ebooks self-published annually…
We try to mix it up when we choose subjects for the 4cast, but here we are talking again about a topic we featured just…
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Businesses are usually started up to satisfy a demand, providing something people want but can’t get easily, and so they’re willing to pay a commercial…
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While wired Internet broadband capacity and usage keeps relentlessly increasing, the truly interesting action is happening in wireless Internet. Technology companies are not devoting a…
How many times a day do you hear or read the term “cloud computing”? (Did we just hear you shout, “Too many!”?) The term is…
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We’d venture a guess that not many librarians give a great deal of thought to fonts, even though a typeface is such an integral part…
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In this day and age of user-generated Internet content — Web 2.0, if you want to call it that — there are astounding amounts of…
You have to admit, the people who try to take over your computer or steal your private information for their own shady purposes are undoubtedly…
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Administrators at many of the libraries served by OPLIN have received emails from OPLIN Support passing along complaints about copyright infringement, often tracing back to…