Collecting My Thoughts

I subscribe to several medical information services because for years I was a veterinary medicine librarian and sort of got hooked on the ge...

Whether nostalgia or bad memory or politicians, you may be wrong about "the good old days," crime, climate, income gaps, etc. ...

BBC News article includes extensive history, narrative, graphics, photos and insight into how and why Amazon collects massive amounts of da...

90% of internet searches use Google, and 95% of searchers drop out after the second page.  I began blogging in 2003 and remember when my blo...

              I am feeling so. . .techie.  Today I unsubscribed to maybe 10 e-mails I never read, and am pretty sure I never signed on to,...

I'm definitely better informed about some rather specialized things than I was 5 years ago--my 2nd cousins once removed, Beyonce and the...

"The mother of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said on Wednesday she was distressed by an international police alert for her son's...

When the whole IT and computer thing really kicked in with 20-somethings making money in start ups I thought young women were well positione...

Pope Benedict XVI says priests should start using web sites and blogs, Facebook and YouTube. At Pope2You.net you can go on Facebook and send...

Really. He said so many times. Not all blacks voted for him. Not all gays are liberals. Not all women are feminists. Not all Hispancis cross...

But turn off the music--it will drive you crazy and you don't need it. HT Rob Darrow

Presidential Pixels Reason has posted an article by a man who did at-home computer piece work for the Obama Campaign for under $3.00 an hour...

Unintended consequences of having too much Not money, but information. ". . .we have found that no matter where students are enrolled, ...

Today's new word is JAILBREAKING I don't have an iPhone, but do have an iTouch, which I haven't yet figured out. Today I saw the...

Girls they just wanna have fun--in libraries Can hardly believe that after almost 40 years of the current women's movement, we still nee...