Right now I’m in Xalapa, Mexico for the Peer Learning Meeting of the Gates Foundation’s Global Libraries Project. People attending the meeting have either received, or will be receiving grants from the Gates Foundation and I’m along to talk about Web 2.0 and library usability.
We’re going to do a few [...]
Yes, I like riding bikes but that’s not the only reason I’m posting about this bike rack. This clever system functions not only as a bike rack, but also a wayfinding mechanism and bench. I’ve been keeping my eyes open for examples of flexible infrastructure and this is a great one. I [...]
The Roku digitial video player, an AppleTV-like device that allows for easy streaming of NetFlix content to a TV, now supports streaming from Amazon’s Video on Demand. It costs $100.
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Some people passionately disagreed with me in the comments on last week’s “libraries might not provide content in the future [...]
I held out from joining Netflix for quite some time because I live down the block from a really great movie rental store and a library that gets DVDs to me in a reasonable amount of time. I like supporting these places. When a friend showed me how much content was available on [...]
Microsoft Mapping Course to a Jetsons-Style Future lists some not really that futuristic sounding things that are on the very near horizon. I was interested in the bit about Laura, the virtual personal assistant because she sounds similar to Apple’s 1987 (!) Knowledge Navigator.
The article isn’t clear if there’s an actual working prototype [...]
