Posted by the editors on Friday, 10 June 2011
The #greatandpowerful Ashley Parker has written an #interestingarticle entitled “Twitter’s Secret Handshake” in the, yes, Fashion & Style section of The New York Times, looking at the creation, evolution, and use of the hashtag, or “#” or “pound sign” (pity those who really do use the pound sign, that is to say, “£”). Secret handshake, indeed.
Of course, as you no doubt have, we have always called the “#” an octothorpe, or, more precisely, an #octothorpe.
Wikipedia on hashtags, here.
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Posted by the editors on Monday, 21 March 2011
A Google logo
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David Barboza and Claire Cain Miller have written a short but interesting article entitled “Google Accuses Chinese of Blocking Gmail Service” in the Technology section of The New York Times, looking into “disruptions” in the Gmail service in China which Google states are part of “a government blockage, carefully designed to look like the problem is with Gmail.” A never-ending battle?
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Posted by the editors on Monday, 21 March 2011
The Google search home page logo
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David Carr has written an interesting article entitled “The Evolving Mission of Google” in the Media & Advertising section of The New York Times, looking at how Google, according to its executives, at least, is not a media company: Google organizes and manages content, but it stays away from producing it. Hmmmm. It seems that that is not what those outside of Google think. A look at how Google is evolving into a media company, perhaps…
In any case, we are very happy that Google exists, aren’t you?
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Posted by the editors on Friday, 18 March 2011
Twitter.com
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Carol Vogel has written an interesting article entitled “The Spirit of Sharing” as part of the the Museums Special Section of the Art & Design section of The New York Times looking at the use of the Internet in general, and social media, in particular, by a number of renowned museums in the U.S. and abroad.
And here is a link to a very dynamic site, artbabble.org, where, at last count, 17 museums offer up an interesting diversity of video…
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Posted by the editors on Wednesday, 16 March 2011
Downloading an e-book from the New York Public Library website to a Nook Color
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Julie Bosman has written an interesting and informative article entitled “As Library E-Books Live Long, Publisher Sets Expiration Date” in the Media & Advertising section of The New York Times looking at the strained relations between public libraries and e-book publishers in general, and the new “26 borrowers” limit imposed HarperCollins Publishers.
Did all of you know that you can’t download public library e-books to your Kindle? (Is this “just” a question of file format or ….?) What do you think about the “26 borrowers” limit?
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