Yahoo! Rocks The Web

December 14, 2005 – 9:34 am

No, I don’t mean that they’re disrupting it, I mean they’re getting it. And in saying that, I don’t mean they’re figured it our first, but they they’re making some damn good acquisitions to get it right.
Mostly, I’m speaking of they’re purchase of Flickr last year and their acquisition of del.icio.us Friday. But in a [...]

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OCLC Report: Libraries vs. Search Engines

December 6, 2005 – 11:33 pm

So, the report was released Monday, and it’s actually titled Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources (2005), but the part I’m highlighting here is the results of the question that asked users to compare their experiences with search engines against their experiences with libraries.
Here’s the quesiton:
Satisfaction with the Librarian and the Search Engine — by [...]

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Internet, Interactivity, & Youth

November 8, 2005 – 1:40 pm

Jenny Levine alerted me to the Pew Internet & American Life Project report on teens as both content creators and consumers.
It turns out that teens, and teen girls especially, are highly active online IMing, sharing photos, blogging, reading and commenting on other’s blogs, and gaming. An especially strong trend in this group is the use [...]

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The Coming Information Age

August 4, 2005 – 6:34 am

That headline might seem a little late among the folks reading this. But we’re all geeks, and if not geeks, then at least regular computer users. Regular computer users, however, are a minority. Worldwide, only around 500 million people have internet access, and fewer than 100 million people in the US have internet access at [...]

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Pepper

July 22, 2005 – 7:00 am

I’m off visiting the good folks at Pepper today. I’ll update this post with photos as soon as they’re available, then look for a pair of posts about how the hardware/software works and what I’d like to do with it later.
Until then, here are some related posts: Ultra Portable Computing, Pepper Pad 2, and [...]

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Damn PNGs in Internet Explorer

June 8, 2005 – 12:25 am

I don’t know why IE has never displayed my transparent PNGs correctly, but I know now that I’m not the only one with this complaint. Bob Osola (name?) shares my frustration, and better, he sat down and coded a solution, shared the code, and posted a wonderfully informative guide to the problem.
Not sure if your [...]

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