Thoughts on Chrome OS and Libraries

With the Chrome OS announcement and reveal today, a few thoughts cropped up on this as a possibility and a threat to libraries and freedom of information.
First, in the spirit of Cory Doctrow’s ‘Little Brother’, if these catch on there are some significant concerns. Whitelisting could be embedded in the OS at a level where [...]

Ditch the Twitter Client – Use Firefox

I twitter a little bit, and I use it to integrate my status updates for Facebook and LinkedIn. I’ve tried a few twitter clients, but they don’t feel very intuitive. My current social media setup is TwitterBar with the RSS Ticker addon used to pull updates from Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. This works extremely well [...]

The Scroll and the Codex: Two Different Views on Ebooks

Due to the rather unique collection in our library and our location, we depend pretty heavily on electronic journals and ebooks. I am dealing with a lot of problems with pdf ebooks for research at the moment, and I also read a lot of fiction (Mobipocket and an old Palm T|X at the moment) in [...]

A summary of what I am thinking about and reading today

00:49 trying out twitterbar #
01:24 Please Snark This tinyurl.com/yhs8fzt #
12:28 testing the facebook connection #
12:57 Ironic that the bastion of the Canadian free market can’t manage it’s own finances. tinyurl.com/yf452px #

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