Metadata in twitter posts lets readers in on your geographic location, the language you speak, the phone you use, and more. They’re also a mapmaker’s best friend.
Quotable: “A second visualization shows language use on Twitter. Metadata from Twitter messages also tells the language the tweet was sent in. In the United Kingdom, most tweets are in English…except in London, where a cacophony of foreign-language tweets dominate the visualization.”
This year’s E3 showed off a myriad of new technology intended to enhance our gaming experiences. The impending release of two powerful next generation gaming consoles this holiday season [PS4 and the Xbox] means games are going to become more advanced.
These advancements will not only improve the quality of the games’ looks onscreen, but also allow them to interact with the players unlike ever before. From motion controls to second-screen gaming, E3 offered a glimpse of the bright, innovative future to come in gaming.
Of all the technology on display, we’ve highlighted the five trends we expect to change gaming in the next few years or so.
via 5 Tech Trends That Will Change Gaming Forever | Mashable.
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Since June is historically LGBT Pride Month, it’s worth taking a look at the ways in which cinema has depicted queers and trans people on screen in comedies, dramas, and documentaries. While this is no definitive list of the best films to feature LGBT characters, themes, or icons, it is a collection of titles worth seeing…
“If you’re just getting caught up on the latest in space tourism, here are 32 resources to get you started.” Via A Librarian’s Guide to Space Tourism – 32 Resources | Ellyssa Kroski – OEDB.org
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See the full article at DCWG Big Six Matrix for Ebook Licenses Comparison | American Libraries Magazine. Link for the matrix here.
Recent Ebook News
What distinguishes the picturebook as a genre within children’s publishing is the way the images work with the words. Rather than merely illustrating the words, the images carry equal weight to them, achieving a harmonious balance between the two where each element adds something to the whole that the other does not. But there is an entire sub-genre of picturebook that eschews a written text altogether, relying entirely on a sequence of images to tell a story or create a meaning.
See the full story at Told in pictures | Eye Magazine
“…a large percentage of the library’s non-fiction collection was being removed in a hasty and ill-considered project driven by an awkward glitch in planning. Some temporary workers had been hired to insert RFID tags into the books and it seemed foolish not to remove outdated books from the collection first, particularly since the RFID tags had yet to arrive. So to make use of the workers who were already on the clock, that removal project was suddenly shifted into high gear, and soon the whole thing was smoking and the wheels fell off, but not before thousands of books were discarded.”
via Throwing the Books at Each Other | Inside Higher Ed
Urbana Free Library Scrutinized Over Book Weeding | Illinois Public Media
Illinois: “Library Director Says Mistake Was Made in Book ‘Weeding’” | InfoDocket – LibraryJournal
I’m sure the Annoyed Librarian is going to have a comment about this one!
Project Loon will use these solar-powered giant devices hovering 12 miles above the ground to beam down Internet to places where they can’t lay cable.
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