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Cassell and Hiremath, in Reference and Information Services , have identified several virtual platforms where Reference transactions take pl...

A man has filed a harassment lawsuit against the Grindr dating app (as reported via NBC News). The claim is based on consumer protection fr...

Google It by Anna Crowley Redding (Feiwel and Friends, 2018) tells the story of Google and founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. This bo...

For The Mary Sue, Jill Pantozzi raises a valid question : “Is Dealing With Vicious Internet Trolls ‘Just Part of the Job’ For Women In Onlin...

Detail from an  infographic by TurnItIn.com: The degree on a scale of 0 to 10 to which types of plagiarism are considered problematic In...

“Here’s something you probably didn’t know,” writes Barbara Stripling, American Library Association president, at Wired.com . “The recent ru...

A report by Angela Hill for the San Jose Mercury News (republished Nov. 19 by the Ashland Daily Tidings ) omits an important question. Wh...

Through its explanations of Boolean logic and summary of available resources, this course met my expectations for becoming more proficient a...

Has your online communication fallen under government surveillance? The Washington Post and the Guardian reported Thursday that the U.S. go...

A grammatically and factually wrong meme A Facebook user named Jason Aaron Wood has a fantastic “Monsanto” meme . “Hate Monsanto? Want ...

To filter or otherwise when allowing access to the Internet on library-owned computers? During an assignment last semester for my Intern...

At the University of California, Berkeley Library: An explanation of how to set preferences when using Google Scholar My assignment th...

The subject of #DFMChat this week among Digital First Media journalists was improving conversations on social media . Specifically, it addre...

Way to go! The Library of Congress has archived 170 billion tweets . According to Seth Fiegerman on Mashable, “The volume of tweets collecte...

My studies this week for LIBT 117 concern filters that limit access to the Internet. Our class discussion board asked what policy libraries ...

I continue preparation for my “con” privacy argument for LIBT 117 in the Cuesta College Library/Information Technology Program. My assignm...

My assignment for a Cuesta College course in Internet ethics is to argue that “Individual citizens don’t need the right to privacy in order...

Aug. 13, 2009: Toastmasters Club No. 8731, Tenacious Talkers, hosts a debate.  I face an interesting assignment for LIBT 117 in the Cues...

The rise of digital books has prompted a profound shift in the way that people read , according to a recent article by Alexandra Alter for t...

Economist.com posted an interesting article about what broadband access can do for a community . The author stated that Google chose Kansas ...