Social Media Culture

The three most common speech balloons (top to bottom: speech, thought, scream). (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Are we getting stupid? I had a couple discussions over the past few days about our western culture, global culture and the ultimate fate of civilization in light of our social media habits....

Why I Dumped Dynamic Views

If it's so dynamic, why leave it? Here's the deal. I really liked the dynamic views when I converted. I liked the slick styling and the awesome reconfiguration options that could go from Mosaic to Timeslide to whatever my readers wanted to see. I liked the way I had configured color to make it clean and readable, with a noted exception for the fact that it was easy to click out of an article by...

RSS is Dead

English: Don't Panic towel (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Welcome to the 21st Century Given all this hoopla about Google amputating Reader from their line of products, it is probably time to ask the question: Is Real Simple Syndication (RSS) dead? An article from Business Insider seems to...

Moving Along, Nothing to See Here

English: This icon, known as the "feed icon" or the "RSS icon", (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Google Reader is going away Where did I leave that panic button? I know it's around here somewhere... I love to read. I love to read about current events and niche topics that hardly anyone really cares about....

Blimey! Are we going metric?

Think Metric! By Franklin M. Branley [c1972] Weeding USF mug, FIU sweater. (Photo credit: CMJimenez) Every librarian should have some experience with the term. As a library student, I just turned in an assignment where I was to de-select 10% of a library's collection and then spend $3,000 on...