Amazon’s Taking 15 Percent Off Kindles Today in Honor of the FAA | Gizmodo


Read: Amazon’s Taking 15 Percent Off Kindles Today in Honor of the FAA | Gizmodo

News: Libraries & Librarians; Education & Technology


Libraries, Librarians

Former Assistant Librarian Fired for Reporting Sex Act In Children’s Section of Town Library | KOB4

Who needs a librarian when you have Google? | Sandusky Register

Tough Report on Job Placement & Salary Information for Librarians | Galleycat

Oklahoma’s Pioneer Library System Launches 24-Hour Vending Library | The Digital Shift

Education, Technology

Academics urge peers to self-publish research | The Bookseller

ResearchGate: “Forget About Revenue Until The Network Is Valuable Enough To Command It” | TechCrunch

Coursera teams up with State Department on series of MOOC-based ‘learning hubs’ around the world | Engadget

Our sources are reliable. | Wikipedia news from The Millions

Web inventor’s open data organisation announces new global network | theguardian. US, Canada, Russia and France among 13 to sign agreements with Open Data Institute co-founded by Sir Tim Berners-Lee

Facebook Admits Teen Use May Be Declining | Mashable

Can You Use Electronic Devices On Airplanes During Takeoff and Landing? Soon, Yes! | TeleRead. Did you know Amazon ran the technical analysis of whether we have to shut down Kindles on planes | Washington Post. One more airline story: Airline Lost Your Luggage? Let Your Phone Find It | Mashable

Book News Links


Two Gaimen stories: Author Neil Gaiman to join Bard College faculty | The Wall Street Journal and Recurring Dream: Morpheus Returns In Gaiman’s ‘Sandman’ Prequel | NPR

What Do I Tell My Daughter About Ender’s Game? | HuffPost
A gay father’s perspective on Orson Scott Card’s homophobia, the book and the new film.

Amazon First Provides Early Access to New E-Books | PCMag
“Amazon [launches] Kindle First, a new program that offers customers access to books a month before their official launch — and serves as another tactic to encourage Prime memberships.”

A library of classics, edited for the teething set | Julie Bosman (The New York Times) | Manila Bulletin
“…[T]oday’s babies and toddlers are treated to board books that are miniature works of literary art: classics like “Romeo and Juliet,” “Sense and Sensibility” and “Les Misérables;” luxuriously produced counting primers with complex graphic elements; and even an “Art for Baby” book featuring images by the contemporary artists Damien Hirst and Paul Morrison.”

Facebook Drives the Most Traffic to Publishers, Beating Twitter and Reddit | Mashable. See the original report from Sharaholic.

Source: Statista (http://www.statista.com/topics/1164/social-networks/chart/1549/social-traffic-sources/)

A Few Twitter Resources for Teachers, Job Hunting, Twitter Management


Teachers

Twitter Guide For Teachers: Ideas, Resources and More | KQED

Twitter Resources for Educators | Rich Hubbard | Pinterest

Job Hunting

20 Twitter Resources for Job Hunters | Mashable

How to find job using Twitter | Jarkko Sjöman

Twitter Management

Twitter Guide Book – How To, Tips and Instructions and The Complete Guide to Twitter Etiquette from Mashable

3 Free Tools to Manage Who You Follow on Twitter | Mashable
Reviews Manage Flitter, UnTweeps and Tweepi.

Twitter Analytics: A Beginner’s Guide | Search Engine Watch

Spirit for Twitter: Disappearing Act For Your Tweets | Information Space
There’s some new Twitter functionality in town, and this time it’s letting you automatically delete any tweet you want with a little hashtag magic.

5 Reasons to Teach Kids To Code [Infographic] | Kodable


5 Reasons to Teach Kids To Code | Kodable

5 reasons to tech kids to code

Tile: Meet This New, Neat Little Device That Tracks Your Stuff | Information Space


For months now, I have seen the advertisement below on my Facebook news feed.

The subject of the ad–Tile–is about to sweep the nation when it finally will be released to users who pre-ordered this very helpful device last winter. Currently, preordered Titles total more than $2 million. 

What is Tile?

Tile is a little device (image right) that can go anywhere or attach to any of your belongings in order to keep track of them. 

Read: Tile: Meet This New, Neat Little Device That Tracks Your Stuff | Information Space

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Web Trends to Watch in 2014 | David Lee King


Want to know what trends web designers are thinking about for 2014? Here you go! This presentation has a list of 15 hot web design trends that designers should consider for 2014.

Jane Austen game is a proper MMORPG [Kickstarter Project] | CNET


Forget swords and sorcery. Ever, Jane invites MMO players into the treacherous waters of England’s Regency Period.

Read: Jane Austen game is a proper MMORPG | Crave – CNET.

Now this is a Kickstarter project I can get behind!

Jane Austen MMORPG

 

A Mountain Range of Shelves Turns This Kids’ Library Into a Playground | Gizmodo


Learning to read is a massive adventure in itself, but discovering the library—a magical place where the stories are plentiful and the books are free—is downright mind-blowing. In an effort to match the fun between the pages, the Mexican branding studio Anagrama transformed the interior of a local heritage site into Niños Conarte, a geometric mountain range of literature.

See all the pics: A Mountain Range of Shelves Turns This Kids’ Library Into a Playground | Gizmodo.

Keep Your Precious Data Safe by Storing Passwords in Your Subconscious | Gizmodo


Do you ever fear that, one day, data-hungry bandits will tie you to a chair and make you surrender your Facebook password? It’s not an unreasonable fear, actually. Christopher Nolan made a gripping documentary about this very scenario. But, thanks to a new method developed by scientists from Stanford and Northwestern, you may never have to worry about remembering a password ever again.

The technique depends on so-called “procedural memories,” the things stored in your brain that you access unconsciously. For example, you ride a bike or play a guitar without thinking about it. These memories are actually stored deep in the part of your brain that handles motor control and habit-forming, as opposed to explicit memories which are stored in the frontal cortex, among other places. However, you can train yourself to access procedural memories when you need them.

Read More: Keep Your Precious Data Safe by Storing Passwords in Your Subconscious | Gizmodo.