At OPLIN, we pay a lot of attention to forecasts related to the Internet – and then share some with you in this 4cast blog –…
OPLIN 4Cast #248: Looking toward 2015
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At OPLIN, we pay a lot of attention to forecasts related to the Internet – and then share some with you in this 4cast blog –…
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Ereaders and tablets, for the most part, have not had much effect on the book. That is, an ebook on an ereader is currently little…
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We usually try not to get too geeky on this blog, but sometimes it seems like we have no choice. The recent stories about the…
An article caught our attention last week concerning some additions to Gartner Research’s Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies. If you’re not familiar with the Hype Cycles,…
In the last week of July, a congressional subcommittee took time out from arguing about government debt to approve a bill know as H.R. 1981,…
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While the 4cast usually focuses on tech news, our stated interest is “headlines, topics and trends impacting public libraries” (see our masthead). Certainly one inescapable…
While many folks have been focused on Google+, Google Books has been bouncing from bad news to good news over the past couple of weeks.…
The entertainment industry has long been concerned about Internet piracy of music and video, and it looks as if the empire has now found a…