Google reader replacements | The Search Principle: Views are my own.
Comparison Chart. Digg not included.
These Amazing Twitter Metadata Visualizations Will Blow Your Mind | Fast Company
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.”
5 Tech Trends That Will Change Gaming Forever | Mashable
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.
The article reviews:
- Motion Controls Get Smarter
- The Evolved Second Screen
- Virtual Reality
- Game DVR and Streaming
- Cloud Computing
See also:
- Microsoft Heeds Gamer Feedback, Dumps Xbox One DRM Restrictions | TechCrunch – June 19, 2013
- Inventor Of Oculus Rift: The Future Of Virtual Reality Is Social Networking | FastCompany – June 14, 2013
- Five Questions About the PS4 for Sony’s Jack Tretton | AllThingsD – June 11, 2013
- PlayStation 4 DRM policies clarified by Sony (updated) | Engadget – June 11, 2013
- Oculus Rift: Hands On With the Future of Gaming | Mashable – May 3, 2013
8 Places to Score Free Fonts Online | Mashable
50 Essential LGBT Films – Flavorwire
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…
A Librarian’s Guide to Space Tourism – 32 Resources | Ellyssa Kroski – OEDB.org
“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
Resources are categorized within:
- General
- Infographics
- Space Tourism Pioneers
- The Colonization of Mars
Recent Ebook News & ALM DCWG Big Six Matrix for Ebook Licenses Comparison
See the full article at DCWG Big Six Matrix for Ebook Licenses Comparison | American Libraries Magazine. Link for the matrix here.
Recent Ebook News
- Random House’s app is a small victory for the industry | theguardian – June 16, 2013
- Springer Responds to Ebook Growth with Program for Colleges and Small Universities | The Digital Shift – June 13, 2013
- ALA, Future of Libraries, Digital Content, and Ebooks | American Libraries Magazine – June 2013
- Hachette To Donate Audiobooks to National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped | The Digital Shift – May 30, 2013
- OverDrive’s Big Library Read Boosts Checkouts, Sales | The Digital Shift – May 28, 2013
- DCWG Big Six Matrix for Ebook License Comparisons | American Libraries Magazine – May 15, 2013
- The State of E-Lending in Canada (Conference Presentation) | Stephen’s Lighthouse – May 9, 2013
- Hachette to Sell Frontlist Ebook Titles to Libraries | The Digital Shift – May 1, 2013
- ALA: Hachette Book Group Marks Real Progress in Library E-Lending | American Libraries Magazine – May 1, 2013
- NYPL, Queens Libraries Comment on Simon & Schuster Ebook Lending Deal | The Digital Shit – April 16, 2013
- 3M Revamps Library Ebook Acquisition Tool | The Digital Shift – April 11, 2013
What are the biggest comic-cons in North America? | PWxyz
Told in pictures | Eye Magazine
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
Throwing the Books at Each Other | Inside Higher Ed
“…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!
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