Collecting My Thoughts

Gary asked, "Where do you get your information?"  He watches only MSNBC and CNN--two channels that pretend to be objective and fai...

 If there were ever a whiff of fascism of the gestapo in the air it would be the warning yesterday from the Department of Homeland Security....

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

I didn't write the Forbes article, but the commentary is all me. My opinion. When it's someone else's opinion, I put it in quote...

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...

We information junkies and professionals (primarily middle class) think if people have information on a better life, good food, climate c...

96% of "journalists" contribute to Democrats. 23:1 stories on broadcast media this election period are on what Trump says compare...

This is going around the internet as the winning entry in an art contest in the Netherlands   But Snopes says no, it's false.  The a...

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

This comment  appeared under the name of Frederick A. Green in a response to Bret Stephens Sept. 22, 2014 WSJ editorial What Obama knows .  ...

I got a chuckle out of this—a library guide with a easy acronym CRAAP, spelled CRAP in the heading.  However, in browsing the video I thou...

The hottest book publishing trend today--less is the new more, says Michael Levin, founder and CEO of BusinessGhost, Inc., who has written m...

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

What to do with information? Repackage and distribute for others to repackage and distribute for others to repackage and distribute, etc., e...

Definitions of leaks Some bloggers do have ears for the leaks, but mainly those go straight from the government's lips to AP, NYT or WSJ...

4622 Dead tree or cyber winged budgets? Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post is not so thrilled that the 2009 budget is digital instead of...

4254 Facebook and Myspace face off Eric Schnell a librarian at OSU has an interesting entry about the stats for these sites and who is usi...

Tara Parker Pope to leave me to my own devices I never miss Tara Parker Pope's health columns in the Wall Street Journal . They are re...