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Why I Hate Netflix

Because I'm sick and tired of their ads popping up on every other website I visit.

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Amazon Kindle: Why Get It for Free If You Can Pay for It?

This is so unfair! 'The Great Slump of 1930' by John Maynard Keynes which goes for the outrageous price of 'free' at Project Gutenberg Canada is being offered by Amazon to Kindle users for a mere...

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UW-Madison Dumps Kindle in Favor of Laptops, Netbooks & Smart Phones

Actually they didn't but you'd think they would have right after their library director made the following comment to CNET:[Library Director Ken] Frazier added that a suitable device would include...

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Overpriced E-Books No Bargain for Students

I missed this article on ways to save money on college textbooks when it first came out. Most of it your average college student would know by heart after the first quarter or semester -- they'd know...

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Is Steve Jobs a Role Model for Librarians?

I'm hijacking the title of an editorial in the latest issue of Journal of Academic Librarianship because I believe it illustrates a problem rather than a solution to our approach as librarians to...

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Ding Dong, the Kindle's Dead!

Here's a little secret, if you ever want to evaluate the relative value of those writing on technology, have a look at what they said about the Amazon Kindle circa Late 2007-Early 2008.From Amy Lee...

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The Age of One App Per Website is Over

While preparing for next week's presentation on Responsive Design, I tried to recall my original uneasiness over the phone app frenzy. You remember -- that short painful period only a few months ago...

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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...)

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Infrastructure 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...

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The 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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Techno-Infatuation Disorder (TID)

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...

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Just Freeze Me

The Pew Research Center reports on the 'app gap':"...[W]hile almost half of adults get local news on mobile devices, just 1 in 10 use apps to do so. Call it the 'app gap'."Please just put me in cold...

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An Offer I Can Refuse

Sorry, Adobe but your emails offering me, 'All the CS6 you want -- just US $19.99 per month', is probably the dumbest thing I've ever heard. I'm frankly not interested in renting out software on a...

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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...

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Google 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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QR Code Fail

It's bad enough you see these things all over the place -- usually without any indication of what they're going to do. Here, not only do you have the usual enigma but you're required to choose your...

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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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