Arriving Somewhere

Only eleven books this year, but it was a busy school year and my daughter was born on May 24 as well! In the fall I actually did a ton of reading in researching the paper I submitted to JCDL (Toward a Design Space for Categorized Overviews of Search Results) - but of course [...]

According to the New York Times, it’s cool to be a librarian. A Hipper Crowd of Shushers

Google recently implemented a new feature for their popular map service called “street view”. Using it you can have a ground level panoramic view of streets and neighborhoods. Currently it is only available for a few major cities (San Francisco Bay area, Las Vegas, Denver, Miami, and New York City) but I’m sure that more [...]

In May Estonia experienced what might be considered the first case of state-sponsored cyber warfare. It began with the Estonian government’s decision to remove a World War II-era monument to a Soviet soldier from a park, sparking riots by ethnic Russians within Estonia as well as an official protest by the Russian government. [...]

In 2005 I began graduate school in the summer which is reflected by the books that I read. It also resulted in a dramatic drop in book reading for pleasure… however I felt like I was actually reading more than normal because of all of the journal articles I read for class. Anyways, [...]