How is Google different from traditional Library OPACs & databases?
How is Google different from traditional Library OPACs & databases? In short, the further away your library search is from these characteristics , the more difficult your users will find the search...
View ArticleGoogle vs. Bing - what's the difference?
Google vs. Bing - what's the difference? And that's the biggest case against switching to Bing. If you're never really going to escape Google - and if Bing is pretty much exactly like Google - what's...
View ArticleMaking Choices in the Age of Information Overload
Making Choices in the Age of Information Overload The Internet was supposed to make us smarter shoppers. So why should we still listen to the signals that brands send us?
View ArticleDaniel Russell’s awesome Google search techniques
Daniel Russell’s awesome Google search techniques There are plenty of Google search cheat sheets floating around. But it’s not often you get to hear advice directly from someone at Google who offers...
View ArticleAn Open Letter To Wikipedia from Author Philip Roth
NEW YORK — Philip Roth vs. Wikipedia? No contest.The prize-winning author says he’s furious with the online encyclopedia over its entry about his novel “The Human Stain.”In a letter posted Friday by...
View ArticleDigging through the clutter of the online world: A Q&A with TED Books author...
Digging through the clutter of the online world: A Q&A with TED Books author Jim Hornthal The latest TED Book deals with an issue we all can relate too: the difficulty of finding answers to complex...
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The Joint New Year's Eve Special
In concert with the team behind the Ubuntu UK Podcast, the Air Staff at Erie Looking Productions presented via WBCQ a New Year's Eve special broadcast via shortwave radio. Now that the show has...
View ArticleLISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #228
This week's program deals with Wikipedia hoaxing, an Internet icon, and a miscellany of brief items.Related links:The Daily Mail: The war that never was: Most elaborate Wikipedia hoax ever as 4,500...
View ArticleWhat Should We Be Worried About In 2013?
NPR had a piece that was titled - What Should We Be Worried About In 2013?Some of the discussion is about information literacy.Excerpt: Many worried about the impact of technology on individual minds...
View ArticleLISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #229
This week's episode looks around the LISHost galaxy while looking at some ambiguous information in a speculative manner.Related links:LISWire: Worch Memorial Public Library Joins COOL and Goes Live on...
View ArticleGoogle Reader To Disappear
On March 13th, Google announced that its Reader application would disappear on July 1, 2013. Dan Seifert wrote at The Verge about the matter where it was indicated that Google is doing this as part of...
View ArticleLISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #237
This week's program starts off with a brief essay talking about the disintegration of having a coherent "popular culture" in the United States then turns to the strange case of the Harlem Shake in...
View ArticleLISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #245
This special edition discusses the current news of revelations of government acquisition of Verizon cell phone customer call records and discusses some software solutions available for preserving...
View ArticleLISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #247
This week's program brings another retransmission from the Voice of America where the continuing cyber-snooping situation is discussed. Stephen tells a tale of how communications metadata can be used...
View ArticleLISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #250
And we're back even though we're now illegal in Vietnam! Then again, so is the rest of LISNews as we discuss in the program. The hiatus is over and normal programming resumes notwithstanding September...
View ArticleLISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #253
This week: THE BRAZIL INCIDENTYes, the repercussions from the NSA spying revelations continue. Now we are seeing looming growth in the fracturing of the Internet with the imposition of national...
View ArticleLISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #256
This week's episode is a news miscellany since the federal government shutdown rolls ever onward and we have no public service announcements to play.Related links:The Blaze: WATCH THE MOVING MOMENT...
View ArticleGoogle Scholar Library
So this might be a big deal: Google Scholar Library. Google does citation management. http://t.co/0T4W9Ih4VH— Jason Griffey (@griffey) November 20, 2013@griffey@adr OH: that's cool, but I would never...
View ArticleLISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #263
This week we have an essay on information ethics, use the word "lethal" more times than usual in this program, and present a news miscellany that seems biased towards libraries news out of the United...
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