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Looking Forward: Answers to Where-Have-You-Been-and-Are-You-Coming-Back-Questions

August 27, 2011
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Looking Forward: Answers to Where-Have-You-Been-and-Are-You-Coming-Back-Questions

 The last couple of months have been a time of change for me personally and professionally. Thank you to everyone who has emailed, DM’d text or called to check on me lately, I appreciate your kindness and support and friendship more than I can say.. Thank you to everyone who offered support, suggestions, recommendations, and advice, it was invaluable and deeply appreciated. I’m sure many of you remember the unexpected death in the family in May, unfortunately that was the beginning of some tough times for my family that aren’t over. I can say I, myself, am healthy and whole, but unfortunately I can’t say the same for some family members. Without going into details I know you will understand when I say I have shifted much of my energy towards family affairs. Professionally there are some changes too. I am going back to school. I am enrolled full time in a Masters in Public Policy and Administration program. I’ll be focusing on public policy and, of course, the library and nonprofit aspect of that. In some ways this isn’t much of a change, I already spent a lot of time reading reports and academic work and thinking and writing about them, but

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7 Books that Changed the Way I See the World

July 29, 2011
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7 Books that Changed the Way I See the World

I don’t think this was really meant as a meme but I’m stealing it and using it as such. I came across this list on the Happiness Project blog, and I think its highly appropriate that I create my own list since  The Happiness Project would definitely be on it! This was actually a hard list to put together for a couple of reasons, first I have a lot of favorite books that have moved me but I’m not sure they’ve changed how I see the world. Second, any time I share a list like this I’m pretty sure readers will be appalled at my terrible taste in books (same goes for music) But here it goes! 1. The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun I’ve always had a fascination with the human brain and how it works, and its a short leap from there to happiness, what makes us happy, why what we think will make us happy doesn’t when we actually get it. Plus who doesn’t want to be a little happier. I really enjoyed Gretchen Rubin’s approach to this book each

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5 Reasons Google+ Is A Privacy Accident (Disaster?) Waiting to Happen

July 22, 2011
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5 Reasons Google+ Is A Privacy Accident (Disaster?) Waiting to Happen

1. You think it has better privacy controls This is number one, hands down, the biggest reason its a problem waiting to happen. The pure enthusiasm for a new product and your belief that you are “safer” will lead to you to share more believing that you have better control. 2. It’s still in Beta.  Beta means beta, which means there are bugs that haven’t been worked out. It also means that this isn’t the finished product, things could change. 3. The follow vs friend vs circle confusion. Anyone can “follow” you by adding you to a circle even if you don’t reciprocate.  This is weird hybrid of Twitter & Facebook. We already know people don’t understand complicated privacy settings. Twitter: your account is either public or private and you know which one it is.  Yes it’s possible on Twitter to repost a tweet from a private account. Facebook: you must request a reciprocal agreement of friendship. If I deny that request you can’t follow me.The default settings for posts and status updates is “friends only”. So let’s say I intend to post my “party friends” but inadvertently post to all. Eek! Yep that’s bad, but it still only goes to the people I’ve allowed

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Books: A Love Letter

July 19, 2011
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Books: A Love Letter

I don’t write about books here. Not really. I write about ebooks and technology and the future of libraries (which may or may not involve books depending who you ask) and sometimes I write about what I’m reading, but I don’t really write about books. This is about books. I have a confession to make, like many people I got my library science degree because I love books. I love the idea of them, what they are capable of, the power within them (even if it is just a good index). I love what I do, I love where my career path has taken me and the focus of this blog and I still love books. I read. A lot. I thought I’d try to share that with you. I think it was after I finished my undergraduate degree that I realized that other people don’t really read as much as I do, I just assumed everyone did and they didn’t talk about it, it turns out I was wrong. It was a startling revelation. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think how much you read has a bearing on how much you love books. I’m just thinking out loud

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Top Ten Links 2.27: The Digital Divide, Digital Devices & Your Rights, Personal Brand, Time Management & More!

July 10, 2011
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Top Ten Links 2.27: The Digital Divide, Digital Devices & Your Rights, Personal Brand, Time Management & More!

My personally selected top ten from the links I shared on Twitter 7.2.2011 through 7.9.2011. In no particular order: 1. Comcast targeting digital divide - If you’ve heard me speak or read my writings about the digital divide you know I applaud the FCC’s National Broadband Plan to ensure that high-speed internet access is available to everyone. But that I also express concern that just making it available doesn’t solve the problem, there are still the issues of the affordability of the service, the affordability of the hardware to use it and the skills needed to use it all well. Comcast is addressing the first of these two issues. In an attempt to bridge the nation’s digital divide, the country’s largest Internet provider soon will offer discountbroadband access to help low-income families get online. The service, called Internet Essentials, costs $9.95 a month for households that qualify. Also as part of the program, subscribers will be able to purchase a computer for $150. 2. Digital Divides & Digital Literacies: An Ongoing Report | The Young and The Digital #digitaldivide. In this interview S. Craig Watkins, author of The Young and The Digital, talks with Tony Cox about the Digital Divide. Great stuff can’t wait to see/read/listen to more! Earlier this

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