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Category Archives: Weekly Bytes

Weekly Bytes for 3/2

Posted on March 2, 2010 by

The stories in this week’s edition of Weekly Bytes were featured in ResourceShelf and LISNews.

Library groups support net neutrality

“Just how much does it actually cost to produce a printed book versus a digital one?”

Readeo, a long-distance …

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Weekly Bytes for 2/23

Posted on February 24, 2010 by

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 …

Posted in Weekly Bytes | Tagged bing, bytes, digital divide, etextbooks, Microsoft, News, weekly, Yahoo | Leave a comment

Weekly Bytes for 2/16

Posted on February 16, 2010 by

This week’s news bytes were culled from LISNews and ResourceShelf.

Google is buying Aardvark — did anyone predict this after reading the last edition of Weekly Bytes?

Know your e-reading rights — a new white paper from the Electronic …

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Weekly Bytes for 2/9

Posted on February 9, 2010 by

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 …

Posted in Weekly Bytes | Tagged aardvark, asis&t, bytes, digital collections, google buzz, kindle, News, social media, weekly, WorldCat | Leave a comment

Weekly(ish) Bytes

Posted on February 2, 2010 by
  • U.S. Oil industry hit by cyberattacks
  • Insanely great??Tech journalists at Ars Technica react to the iPad
  • For the love of culture?Lawrence Lessig on Google, copyright, and our future
  • So it?s called the iPad: Five thoughts on how it
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Posted in Weekly Bytes | Tagged apple, asis&t, bytes, copyright, cyberterrorism, information, law, legal, News, overload, weekly | Leave a comment

Weekly Bytes for 12/6

Posted on December 7, 2009 by Linnea Johnson

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
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Posted in Weekly Bytes | Tagged apple, asis&t, bytes, digital, google wave, GSLIS, horizon report, mobile technology, native, Simmons College, weekly | Leave a comment

Weekly Bytes

Posted on November 22, 2009 by

A curated list of links of interest to the ASIST community:

  • Twitter puts geotagging tools in place
  • Google book search granted preliminary approval
  • A group of major research libraries have offered full-text search of over 4.6 million books.
  • Health gets
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