Monthly Archives: March, 2009
Information (&) Poverty
Information, poverty, and information poverty are all distinct but related concepts, and it’s been the focus of a lot of research I’ve done while in graduate school. With the G-20 summit in London about to kickoff, I felt it was a good time to share a handful of articles describing the links between literacy, libraries, the economy, [...]
Open for Questions
I’ve commented before on how impressed I am with the Obama administration’s excellent use of social networking and Web 2.0 technologies. Somehow I’m continually amazed at how different this adminstration has been so far, at least in terms of technology.
In latest developments, the White House has released (functionally) a short-term and topic-specific Digg clone called [...]
What’s your superpower?
One of the things I love about librarianship is the fact that it’s such an all-encompassing concept, at least to librarians. Even if there are cultural stereotypes of the “typical” librarian, I think most of us on the inside would agree that, as professionals, we’re all different and unique, and that we each fill special [...]
Twitter versus Facebook
I have a simple question: Is Twitter more social than Facebook?
Twitter, on the one hand, only allows you to post brief messages describing what you’re doing. Yet everyone’s talking at once and there’s almost always a lot going on.
Facebook, on the other hand, allows you to describe yourself, list your interests, upload all sorts of media [...]