Category Archives: Technology

Recent Pew Research Links

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Teens, Social Media, and Privacy by Mary Madden, Amanda Lenhart, Sandra Cortesi, Urs Gasser, Maeve Duggan, Aaron Smith | Pew Internet & American Life Project

Parents, Children, Libraries, and Reading by Carolyn Miller, Kathryn Zickuhr, Lee Rainie and Kristen Purcell | Pew Internet & American Life Project

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Greatest Hits from Pew Internet’s Library Research from Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project

Tech trends and library services in the digital age from Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project and also Pew: Tech trends and library services in the digital age | Stephen’s Lighthouse

Pew – Public’s Knowledge of Science and Technology | Stephen’s Lighthouse

The Best PowerPoint Alternatives for Creating Great Presentations | The Digital Shift

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The Best PowerPoint Alternatives for Creating Great Presentations | The Digital Shift

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How Can I Make My PowerPoint Presentations Amazing? | LifeHacker

Build a Digital Family Tree With These 5 Tools | Mashable

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Build a Digital Family Tree With These 5 Tools | Mashable

The article reviews:

  1. FamilySearch.org
  2. Treelines
  3. Family Village
  4. Grave Sites – Billiongraves.com, Findgrave.com and Legacy.com
  5. Digitized Newspapers

There is also a tool called Family Echo, which is free but very basic and another one called MyHeritage, also free but with more features including sharing and a collaborative tool called Geni.

Pinterest adds more data to your boards with rich pins | Engadget

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Pinterest is already an absurdly popular way to save stuff from around the web, be it shoes you love, accessories for your bridesmaids or decorations for your man cave. One thing the social-bookmarking service has been missing, however, is context. Now it’s offering a way for companies to deliver more info, through metadata attached to particular types of pages. Rich pins, as they’re being called, can automatically attach price and availability to a product, or ingredient lists to recipes via Pinterest adds more data to your boards with rich pins | Engadget.

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Top 5 Sites for Online Learning | Information Space

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Top 5 Sites for Online Learning  | Information Space

The 5 sites discussed are:

  1. Khan Academy
  2. Skillshare
  3. Codeacademy
  4. Lynda.com
  5. EdX

In The Rijksmuseum’s Digital Archive, Old Masterworks Inspire New Designs | Co.Design

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Amsterdam’s famed Rijksmuseum recently emerged triumphant from a decade-long renovation project. In addition to the extensive on-site overhaul that transformed the 125-year-old institution into an LED-lit, chronologically arranged journey through art history IRL, the reopening also marked the debut of the Rijksstudio, an incredible online resource that allows virtual visitors to explore hi-res versions of a staggering 125,000 works.

via In The Rijksmuseum’s Digital Archive, Old Masterworks Inspire New Designs | Co.Design: business + innovation + design

The Rijksstudio has a cool discovery tool called Master Matcher. You answer 5 questions which match you with items from the archive of 125.000 masterpieces in the Rijksmuseum.

How social media is changing privacy in medicine | The Search Principle

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6 Bookless Libraries | Ellyssa Kroski – OEDB.org

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“As space and budget concerns continue to grow, many libraries are opting to forego building their print collections in favor of providing electronic resources. This new trend toward building digital libraries has been developing over the past several years in spite of the controversy over eliminating print materials. Many people have spoken out against bookless libraries, especially with regard to public libraries, stating that the digital divide will keep many from using library resources and as well as the fact that many publishers won’t sell their publications to libraries in eBook format.” See the full article: 6 Bookless Libraries | Ellyssa Kroski – OEDB.org.

Why 3D Printing Is Overhyped (I Should Know, I Do It For a Living) | Gizmodo

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“The main issue lies with raised expectations, build quality, price and usability. So here we go, my list of reasons 3D printing isn’t all you think it’s cracked up to be.”

via Why 3D Printing Is Overhyped (I Should Know, I Do It For a Living) | Gizmodo.

The issues discussed include:

  • People’s expectations
  • The name
  • Strength
  • Surface finish
  • Cost
  • Speed
  • Usability
  • Machine range
  • Materials

 

 

8 Objects That Signal a New Industrial Revolution | Gizmodo

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Are we on the verge of a third industrial revolution? The editors at The Economist certainly think so. But while rapid prototyping and the open source movement have been around for decades now, we had yet to see anyone take a truly comprehensive look at the transformation in manufacturing. That is, until the New Museum’s latest show, Adhocracy, came along.

Adhocracy is, in the word of its curator, Domus editor Joseph Grima, “an exhibition about people who make things.”

The objects vary, but the ethos stays the same: making is no longer the purview of companies which manufacture millions of the same object. It’s the right of individuals, who are manufacturing one or two objects to fit their own unique needs, then passing along their code.

See the full article at Gizmodo: 8 Objects That Signal a New Industrial Revolution.

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