Bjork’s latest project landed in my stream by a post from Kenley Neufeld on Google+. There are so many aspects of that one sentence I could discuss and yet I will discuss almost none of them. Today I want to discuss the fact that the term “format” has no rational meaning for a new type […]

It’s my birthday today, which you might know had you seen the 3,000 posts to my Facebook wall. OK, I exaggerate, but you get the picture. So you might say I was feeling pretty good until I went to Google to do a search. Up pops a Google “doodle” that clearly is a birthday greeting […]

Several things have come across my radar recently that brought this issue into focus for me.  One is that for a while now the “linked open data” crowd has been calling on libraries and other to put their metadata up under an open license as RDF and (presumably) linked to other such data sets. My […]

At the risk of looking like I’ve lost what little sanity I may have left and I will only write about Google and Google products, something happened yesterday that I wanted to share. In a nutshell, I hosted a Hangout. What’s a Hangout? Well, you basically put yourself out there as open for anyone to […]

As have most of us, I basically “grew up” on Microsoft products. As much as I hated it, I used DOS and eventually Windows as did most people. Microsoft Office is still a staple of my existence. The only shrink-wrapped software producer that comes anywhere near having as big a hold on my silicon is […]

I’ve had accounts on a lot of social networking sites. Heck, I still have accounts on Tribe.net, Orkut.com (a shout-out to my Brazilian friends!) and have even left my dead body behind in Second Life — somewhere on Information Island I think. Try not to trip over the corpse of Thomas Roy the next time […]

MySpace sold yesterday for a reported $35 million. This is far, far from the estimated $327 million paid for it only six years ago by the News Corporation. And although no less a celebrity than Justin Timberlake reportedly has a stake in it, it likely will take more than the wunderkind to save it. But […]

Google Plus is apparently Google’s attempt to out-social Facebook. Will they succeed? Let’s take a look at what it offers before trying to answer that question: Circles – With this feature you can create “circles” of friends. Instead of having one big pile of friends like in Facebook, you can choose to selectively share what […]

According to a survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project: E-Reader ownership among U.S. adults age 18 and older doubled from 6% to 12% between November 2010 and May 2011, surging ahead of tablet adoption which stands at 8%… Hispanic adults, adults younger than age 65, college graduates and those living in households […]

The Center for History and New Media, the creators of Zotero and Omeka, have announced a new initiative. Dubbed PressForward, the tag line is “Scholarship and Publication, the Web Way”. Their stated goals are to: Develop effective methods for collecting, screening, and drawing attention to the best online scholarship, including scholarly blogs, digital projects, and […]