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On the Nature of Train Wrecks
Matt Enis from Library Journal writes about the 'Fail4Lib pre-conference workshop' at this year's Code4Lib Conference where people talked about failed or problematic projects and the lessons they...
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Design Fail
I swear if I get another one of these as a design proposal for the main page of a website, I'm going to sue Microsoft for crimes against usability. (P.S. Why Microsoft? Hint...)
View ArticleInfrastructure on the Skids
"High speed" Internet provider AT&T tells me that my connection speed sucks but instead of trying to fix it, they're throwing in the towel and lowering my monthly rate."About Your AT&T High...
View ArticleThe Post App Internet
Yet another bad idea bites the dust:At the same time, it is clear that, apart from a shortlist of popular apps, most people just aren’t downloading a lot of apps anymore. Any given person spends 80% of...
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Billboard: Color TV Film Won't Oust B&W (1953)
Tint Talk : Color TV Film Won't Oust B&WHOLLYWOOD, July 11. -- Like motion pictures, television will continue to use a great amount of black and white film even when color becomes a regular feature...
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Opps, Maybe Not the 'Future' After All
Interesting how titles tend to change over time. I was going through a number of old posts and saw a reference to an article in Newsweek from 10 years ago, extolling the virtues of the recently...
View ArticleGoogle Redefines Email (& Your Rights) :-(
So Google comes out with a number of changes to its Gmail service including "Confidential Mode". As XDA-Developers explains:A new Confidential Mode allows you to remove the option for the recipient to...
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Make It Hard to Update Software? Guess What: Then People Won't
Ars Technical reports on the vulnerability of 115,000 Drupal websites to 'hacker takeovers'. This even though a software patch has been available for over 10 weeks.All I can say is, I'm not surprised....
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#SaveDotOrg
One way to demolish the Internet is to take over its names.Electronic Frontier Foundation:"This month it was suddenly announced that the nonprofit that owns the .ORG domain registry was planning to...
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The Value of Library Reference : You Decide
It’s 8:30pm on a Tuesday evening. Student contacts Reference Desk saying he/she is looking for ‘research’ articles on effects of poverty on success in education. Instructor wants list of articles from...
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