On the way home, I made a last sweep through our local Borders. I went through the bookshelves and magazine racks and wondered what exactly will be the extent of our access to print media when none of this is around any more. Is the publishing industry (no matter how vibrant or moribund) about to run out of outlets?
The Illinois Library Association has just sent out an 'Action Alert' with the title, "Contact your representative to oppose filtering legislation".
Although I agree with all the 'talking points' it suggests, this one really strikes a nerve:
You'd think these people had better things to spend their money on:
Facebook and Google size up takeover of Twitter: report(Reuters) - Google Inc and Facebook Inc, plus others, have held low level takeover talks with Twitter that give the Internet sensation a value as high as $10 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Sites like Twitter come in and out of fashion all the time. $10 billion bucks? Can you say, 'MySpace'?
So let's say the iPad Fairy™ comes down and gives everyone at your school a free iPad. Miracle, right?
Well, apparently not at Stanford's School of Medicine. As an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education explains:
But when Stanford's School of Medicine lent iPads to all new students last August, a curious thing happened: Many didn't like using them in class.... In most classes, half the students had stopped using their iPads only a few weeks into the term.
Some shots on the way to work today.
Wonderful! Look what Amazon's recommending to me. Not only do they think I'm a vegan but an overweight vegan at that. I'm devastated.
