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Weekly Bytes for 2/23

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The links in this week’s edition of Weekly Bytes were brought to you by these sources: Library Stuff, LISNews, ResourceShelf, and The Shifted Librarian.

No worries about a monopoly – U.S. and European regulators approve Microsoft/Yahoo search deal. On an unrelated note, Google resumes talks with China

A closer look at Google’s search algorithm (and a few cases where Bing would be a better choice)

A new study from the Pew Research Center tackles a question we all should have asked sooner: “Will Google make us stupid?”

Is lack of broadband another type of “digital divide”? A new study from the Brookings Institution considers the international use and impact of broadband.

Textbooks that professors can remix

Ten technologies ideas your library (or a library you care about) can implement next week

Weekly Bytes for 2/9

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This week’s news bytes were hand-picked from the updates at ResourceShelf:

The launch of Aardvark — a large-scale social search engine

The launch of Google Buzz — Google’s alternative to Facebook and Twitter?

Publishers have gained some leverage to set their own e-book prices

The British Library will give free access to 65,000 rare first editions of 19th century fiction

100,000th record entered into the WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway

Findings of the Pew Internet Project on social media — blogging on the decline among the young

Weekly(ish) Bytes

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Weekly Bytes for 12/6

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Here is the second installment of our Weekly Bytes series for the GSLIS community. Please enjoy the following resources, many of which have a mobile technology theme:

  • Free Webinar on Mobile Learning – This 1 hour virtual session covers the emergence of Mobile Technologies and its game-changing effects on how we learn.
  • 7 Tips to make your web site mobile-friendly -  This covers some great points on how to take your current web site and make sure it is ready for viewing on the growing population of mobile devices.
  • Top 10 Mobile applications for 2012 - This lists includes the sorts of technologies that are just now coming into their own and haven’t yet seen widespread adoption as well as the already common technologies that are still experiencing growth.
  • Digital Native or Not? Learning Computers Later in Life – This is a great post by the New York Public Library that talks about the different ways to keep current on technology trends at any age.
  • The New Media Consortium’s Horizon Report 2010 Preview -  The report preview organizes topics by “time to adoption” and  includes a description of the topic; the relevance for teaching, learning, and creative expression; examples of how the topic is being applied, and suggestions for further reading.
  • Complete Guide to Google  Wave – Have a Google Wave account? Confused as to what to do next? Check out this free comprehensive guide where you’ll learn the ins and outs of how to use Google Wave to get things done with your group.
  • Memento: Time Travel for the Web – This presentation introduces the Memento solution to allow time travel on the Web using the Library of Congress.
  • Google Image Swirl – Google Image Swirl combines a variety of image similarity features with additional metadata about the images to build a hierarchy of clusters of image search results.
  • Appvent Calendar – This is a neat advent calendar of free iPhone and iPod Touch games that are available for the whole month of December in the Apple App Store.
  • Apple Gift Giving Guide - Here are 10 great holiday gifts perfect for the Apple fan in your life, compiled by the writers at Mashable. They run the gamut from stuff that touts an Apple fan’s devotion to those just add a little bit of flair to an existing Mac.

Have a great week!

~Linnea

Tutorial Tuesday: Feed bundles

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MakeUseOf has a clear, simple tutorial for creating feed bundles in Google Reader, including some ideas for presenting the bundles to your community.

Google Reader gives you several ways to share bundles, letting anyone read the aggregated content or subscribe to the feed.  I added a link to our feed bundle in the sidebar of this blog, and can now present a stream of information from NEASIS&T on Twitter and the ASIS&T blog.

I can imagine libraries gathering information for their communities by creating bundles from town websites or academic departments, or promoting the library by creating bundles from internal blogs.

Which feeds would you bundle for your community?  Try it out, and send us your links!