Everything has a price; it’s just not coming out of your pocket for this one. K. Matthew Dames, publisher of Search & Text Mining Report, explaining part of the reason why everyone can search Google for free. In exchange for letting people search for “free,” Google gathers tons of information about users that the company [...]
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Cervone’s Good Geeky Utilities
Frank Cervone, the software geek at Northwestern University (otherwise known as assistant university librarian for information technology), gave a very useful talk about free and inexpensive products that can provide protection against all manor of unsavory and dangerous items in our IT environments. He covered 5 categories of products: antivirus, firewalls, spyware detection and removal, [...]
Reflections & Connections @ CIL 2006
Managing Digital: Innovations, Initiatives & Insights has been a great theme for the Computers in Libraries conference this year. So many speakers have built upon the talks of other speakers and conversations they have had with colleagues. It’s wonderful to see things come together after months of planning. Several speakers told me today that after [...]
Gadgets, Gadgets, and More Gadgets
For me, the gadget session presented by Hope Tillman of Babson College is always a “don’t miss”. Gadgets are fun, and there are so many new ones out there! Hope’s session usually points me to the next “toy” that I will buy. This year’s session did not disappoint. Hope suggested that we can get a [...]
The Internet: Enhancing Work and Play
The final day of CIL 2006 was kicked off by Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Internet and American Life project, (shown in the photo speaking with Marydee Ojala, Editor of ONLINE magazine) who gave us a fascinating look at how the Internet is enhancing work and play. He focused on the Millennial generation and [...]
