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PointCounterPoint: The Future of Libraries and Print
“In a digital landscape, the need to visit a library to obtain access to reference material is no longer necessary. Library spaces are increasingly used as public areas to work, discuss, present and share information and research.” –British Library, 2020 … Continue reading
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InfoStory Quotes: Passion for news
“‘If the news is that important, it will find me” — college student, quoted in L. Gordon Crovitz, “Now the News Finds You,” Wall Street Journal, September 20, 2010 “…instead of replacing traditional news platforms, Americans are increasingly integrating new … Continue reading
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Drug safety crowdsourcing
Researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston have developed a new iPhone application in collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to engage health care practitioners and the general public in issues of drug safety and real-time pharmacovigilance. The … Continue reading
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This day in information: Birth of :-)
Today in 1982, Scott Fahlman became the first person to use 🙂 in an online message.
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InfoStory Quotes: Power of Information?
“A consideration of the effects of information storage and information transfer on physical, chemical biological, psychological, and sociological systems… may help in understanding and predicting many of the aspects of our universe” – American Scientist, 1950 “If only a logic … Continue reading
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World Views, 2010 and 150
Hyperbolic map of the Internet, 2010 Marian Boguna, Fragkiskos Papadopoulos, and Dmiri Krioukov, Sustaining the Internet with Hyperbolic Mapping, Nature Communications 1482 map, depicting Ptolemy’s (AD 90 -168) description of the inhabited world.
The first home computer: 1965
Built in 1965 by Westinghouse engineer James Sutherland, the ECHO IV was so big, “it looked more like the home was built to house the computer instead of the other way around.” In 1994, The IEEE Annals of the History … Continue reading
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InfoStory Quote: “Paper is Power”
“In the modern world, as the Ottomans demonstrated, paper is power.” —Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum. Is paper still power? or are we (finally) in a post-modern world where (blog, Facebook, Twitter) post is power?
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Tim Berners-Lee on Google+Verizon
Berners-Lee: “We assume that when you look up a [web page], that you can get any page because that is the way it has always been and that is why the web has flourished… Of course a lot of companies … Continue reading
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Random access to information
In 1953, Arthur J. Critchlow, a young member of IBM’s advanced technologies research lab in San Jose, California, was assigned the task of finding a better information storage medium than punch-cards. Visiting a number of customers, Critchlow learned that punch-card … Continue reading
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The Story of Information 