Since last week’s 4cast, two events—the British royal wedding and the death of Osama bin Laden—have generated record amounts of Internet traffic, particularly on social…
OPLIN 4Cast #228: Buzz gone wild
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Last week, T-Mobile received quite a bit of attention in the technical media when they introduced “Bobsled,” an app for Facebook that allows Facebook friends…
We have certainly written a number of posts on this blog about e-books in the past, but this post is about a specific kind of…
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This week’s 4cast diverges from our usual offerings, in that it does not concern any hot new tech news we’ve gathered from the media. Fiber…
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Unless you work in a law library, you probably don’t pay a lot of attention to laws and legal issues, with the exception of copyright…
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South by Southwest Interactive (“SXSW” if you want to be cool) is happening this week in Austin, Texas. “Interactive” is one of three simultaneous conferences…
No doubt about it, libraries are going through some very tough times right now. On top of draconian budget cuts, they have to deal with…
It’s a safe assumption that most of our readers have heard of the recent move by Harper Collins to restrict the lending of their e-books…