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Saving libraries and searching skills
Caitlin Moran eloquently expresses in Caitlin’s Moranifesto: Save our Libraries why Libraries still have their place in the age of the internet, and why we shouldn’t be content with just “Googling it”. “Do we all want to be Googlesheep, herded … Continue reading
Another article in support of open access
I’ve posted several times on the open access movement which aims to end the practice of charging to read academic papers describing research which has usually been publicly funded in the first place. The latest case for open access is … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Featured sites, Future views, Latest news, Open access, Scientific sites
Tagged Academic, Copyright, Featured sites, Future of search, Science
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Public libraries are important – why?
Over recent years many famous authors have given their support to the public library sector as they try to help explain to the politicians and general public (especially those who rarely darken the doors of a public library) why we … Continue reading
Reading on-screen content: are you still with me or have you given up reading this?
Back in 2008 The Atlantic ran an article looking at what the internet is doing to our brains. The author wrote that he’d noticed that reading articles on-line was apparently affecting the way we take in information and was having … Continue reading
Posted in Digital books, Future views, Information literacy
Tagged Bibliophiles, Digital books, News sites
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Google news manoeuvers with a European flavour
News is a ubiquitous free and fee-based commodity on the web. There’s always a lot of it out there, with many duplicate and similar versions of the same story doing the rounds giving the appearance of even more news than … Continue reading
Will Virtual Reality one day be the new way to search?
If you want to understand the virtual reality “landscape”, you could hardly do better than have a read of a very interesting (and quite long) feature in The Verge which takes a look at the many worlds of virtual reality, … Continue reading
“Privacy as we’ve known it is ending”…really? Only for some
The following NY Times article floated into my in-box via CB Insights’ newsletter – CB Insights is one of the leading VC and start-up online sources, and has a very lively newsletter! I hope CB Insights’ editor won’t mind me … Continue reading
Google progresses its mission to digitise libraries and make them searchable
A Happy New Year to you. Here’s to 2015, may the search continue! Oooh, that sounds a bit Star Wars-like, but there we are. As a friend once quoted Yoda to me: “do or do not, there is no try”, … Continue reading
The changing way we search for news: FreePint blog
Further to my last post on What’s happening to the way we search for news?, below is the link, as promised, to my summary FreePint blog post: Is it worth paying for premium news sources? FreePint’s blog is worth keeping an … Continue reading
What’s happening to the way we search for news?
In short, it’s changed and still changing. The excellent and informative haven for enthusiastic information professionals, otherwise known as FreePint, is busy investigating this topic at present. I’m delighted to be involved with this and hope to have an article … Continue reading
Posted in Business and management, Company data, Featured sites, Future views, Information literacy, Latest news, Psychology of search, Search engines
Tagged Business and management, Competitive intelligence, Featured sites, Future of search, Information literacy, Mentality of search, Mindfulness, News sites
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