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This week let’s travel towards the philosophical and ask the question of what is a book? With the promise of e-readers, tablet computers, and other devices that can mediate our reading experience the death of the book has been proclaimed often.   I wonder what it is that is dying. 
 

Google Voice integration with Gmail, Facebook introduces us to places. Important announcements to be sure and lettering will be and has been given to these topics. I will waste no more of your mindshare, instead let us play a numbers game, and I assure you there will be a point at the end of all this.

0’s & 1’s. Numbers that represent such tiny amounts it staggers the mind how much they can add up to in a month. So much in fact that data caps and tiered service plans  are likely to emerge with wireless carriers,

Earlier when I broached this subject it was with respect to the RCLS system being down. However it is important to note that it is not only technology that requires downtime. As I sit here trying to write something this week and erasing paragraph after paragraph I realize that humans also need downtime. Maybe for different reasons. Sometimes li

Life is an interesting experience, one never knows what thoughts will be generated, nor what will arise from seemingly unconnected, or at best tangential, events. I am in the process of forming a teen advisory council at the library I work.   Now for the most part I am letting them decide how they want to advertise, promote, and focus their energies

Haven’t we seen this before? Apple producing a product on their hardware and running their own Operating system vs.

Android.

Or so I read, hear, and in some cases see.

Late last week I became the proud owner of an e-reader (to be specific a nook—as a librarian the ability to lend—though very limited—books to others appeals to me), and I began thinking. E-Book or physical book (shall we call it a i-book—ink-book?), is there some over whelming advantage to one over the other? While that thought did not really go anywhere I be

Serendipity as defined by Merriam Webster is the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for When the random in life brings something of positive worth, that is s