Online Personal Libraries and Book Social Media Sites | Dear Author
Reviews:
- LibraryThing
- Riffle
- Bookish
- Storyverse
- Get Glue
- Bookvibe
Advancing the User Experience: presentation by Monica Harris, OPPL « Tame The Web
Major Players in the MOOC Universe – The Digital Campus 2013 – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Millions of students have signed up for massive open online courses, and hundreds of universities are offering some form of Web-based curriculum. Most students aren’t paying much for these classes, if they’re paying anything at all. So where is all that knowledge—and all the cash—coming from? via Major Players in the MOOC Universe – The Digital Campus 2013 – The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Google Framed As Book Stealer Bent On Data Domination In New Documentary | TechCrunch
Google Framed As Book Stealer Bent On Data Domination In New Documentary | TechCrunch
Quotable: “From the second it starts, director Ben Lewis’ opinion is clear: Google Books is as an insidious plot for data domination. See, Google didn’t just want to make a universally accessible library. It wanted to use all the knowledge to improve its search and artificial intelligence projects.”
Inside the Internet Archive’s Real-World Home | Mashable
The Internet Archive is a massive, ambitious effort to digitize the full spectrum of human knowledge. A documentary from Deepspeed Media goes inside the archive to reveal what that looks like in practice. See the full article here: Inside the Internet Archive’s Real-World Home | Mashable.
Don’t Leave College Without These 10 Digital Skills | Mashable
For the full article: Don’t Leave College Without These 10 Digital Skills | Mashable. Here is the list:
- Setting Up a Wi-Fi Network
- Backing Up to the Cloud
- Basic Photo Editing (Photoshop)
- Basic Video Editing (Final Cut Pro)
- Google Drive and Microsoft Office (Seriously)
- HTML and Basic Coding
- Setting Up a Website and Domain
- Converting File Formats
- Online Banking
- Branding Yourself
One of the first things I did when I went back to university as a graduate student was to purchase a new laptop and Adobe Creative Suite to take advantage of student pricing. I wonder how expensive 3 and 4 will be now for students, with Adobe moving to a subscription based cloud computing model? Then again there are a lot of free and/or open source solutions available.
Brandon Zarzyczny: My Dad And His 10,496 Book Reviews | Huffington Post Books
“He originally bought most of the books he read, and the attic is still filled with boxes of old books, however for the past 15-20 years he’s mostly loaned the books from the library. My Dad loved our local library, the James V Brown Library, where all of the librarians knew his name, and he would leave there with a bag full of books about once a week. For the past year or two, he’d also tried reading ebooks on a Tablet I bought for him for Christmas, and while he loved downloading all of the free indie Kindle books he could get his hands on, he still preferred a good hardcover book.” See full article here: Brandon Zarzyczny: My Dad And His 10,496 Book Reviews | Huffington Post Books.
What a great story! I too keep track of the books I have read within both a database called Bookpedia (print) and Calibre (digital) on my Mac (now I’m thinking I should combine them into one). Not with as much detailed information as Mr. Craig Zarzyczny though! I also used to post reviews to GoodReads, LibraryThing and ChaptersIndigo Community. Reviewing was taking the enjoyment out of reading, so I slowed down around 2 years ago.
Awesome, Libraries Crowdfunding Now! | Hulk Statue For Library | Huffington Post Books
How can you attract more kids to visit the library? How about a nine-foot tall statue of The Hulk? That’s what Northlake Public Library in Northlake, IL is trying to get via a crowdfunding campaign on indiegogo.com. See full article at: Hulk Statue For Library: Northlake, Illinois Crowdfunding Scheme Has Big Goals | Huffington Post Books.
Libraries: A Canvas for Creating Meaningful User Experience | UX Magazine
“User experience is an important tool for libraries to employ against a number of competitors like bookstores and at-home Internet access. Libraries have taken this as an opportunity to provide services that are not available elsewhere. The strategy to focus on users and their needs has earned libraries strong support from the public as demonstrated by a recent Pew Internet study: an overwhelming 91% of Americans “say public libraries are important to their communities.” See the full article: Libraries: A Canvas for Creating Meaningful User Experience | UX Magazine.
Adobe kills Creative Suite, goes subscription-only | Business Tech – CNET News
Just a year after launching its $50-per-month plan, Adobe has made its Creative Cloud the only way to get the new versions of its full software suite. Customers “overwhelmingly” prefer it via Adobe kills Creative Suite, goes subscription-only | Business Tech – CNET News.
You may also like this opinion piece about the Adobe subscription announcement from The Digital Shift: I, For One, Welcome Our New Software Overlords. Or this interview with the Adobe CEO: The Truth About Creative Cloud | Mashable.
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