Wow! Neat things people can do with RSS. Pretty fun!
Wow! Neat things people can do with RSS. Pretty fun!
The Pew Internet & American Life Project has released a study that shows the average American is very confused about all the tech jargon they hear every day.
Read the full text of the survey/study here:
The average American internet user is not sure what podcasting is, what an RSS feed does, or what the term “phishing” means
It seems that everyone is talking about podcasting lately. Did you know there’s a podcast search engine? I really need to get an iPod….
Are you a migrator (always moving your files to the latest platform and format), museum (keeping older machines around to read the files created for them), or a printer (paper can store things in usable form much longer than digital formats)? Perhaps you are relying on the web?
This article talks about the problems associated with digital data, and making sure digital archives are always readable.
NYT requres free registration. Bother.
The New York Times > Technology > Even Digital Memories Can Fade
Something to think about… how are libraries going to respond to a patronage that expects everything to be easily gotten via digital means?
These kids are our future, how are we going to get them into the library?
Chicago Tribune | U.S. kids wired? Almost totally, survey finds
16,000 students from more than 92 countries are competing in The Imagine Cup, a technology contest. Winners win an all-expenses paid trip to a huge technology festival (the 2005 festival is in Yokohama, Japan!).
The Imagine Cup has launched careers. For example, Tu Nguyen, a winner in the 2003 Imagine Cup, designed a tool to bridge the language gap between the English-speaking waiters and the Vietnamese-speaking chefs at his parents’ Vietnamese restaurant in Omaha, Nebraska. After receiving a number of job offers, Nguyen went on to open his own consulting company based on his Imagine Cup application.
Thinking of encouraging those young computer users at your library to enter the contest? Registration for 2005 is closed, but the 2006 contest is just around the corner….
Is technology making workers more productive or is it providing distractions that keep them from getting things done? Check out this article, Driven to Distraction, from CNet. It includes tips for disconnecting from technology distractions.
Finally, the definitive answer.
I agree with these, every librarian/educator should have these skills.
This library has been checking-out Playstation 2 video games to patrons for six months. So far, not a single game has been returned in damaged condition and not a single game has been lost. Circulation numbers for the games are high.
