INLS261/461 Tools for Information Literacy
newsletter starters | Summer Session I, 2008
- 12 June 2008 - Technology Review: Faster Wireless Networks. Sending descriptions of data could be more efficient than sending the data itself. By Duncan Graham-Rowe, 21 May 2008
- 11 June 2008 - we took a break to focus on databases
- 10 June 2008 - Technology Review: Flocking Together on the Web. A new Web browser unifies access to multiple social networks. By Tim Barribeau, 07 May 2008
- 09 June 2008 - Languages Take You Further, a publication with examples of 25 European languages, from FreePint. Produced by the European Commission for children, it is nonetheless interesting to anyone curious about languages.
- 06 June 2008 - FreeMind - free mind mapping software, from FreePint. A tool that might help you see connections you didn't know existed.
- 05 June 2008 - The Diverse and Exploding Digital Universe: An Updated Forecast of Worldwide Information Growth through 2011, from Current Cites
- 04 June 2008 - EIA - Short-Term Energy Outlook - Real Petroleum Prices, Librarians Index to the Internet
- 03 June 2008 - Best Practices with Bar Graphs, Inf@Vis 158
- 02 June 2008 - Iraq Coalition Casualties: spreadsheets at work, sadly.
- 30 May 2008 - continuing with the thoughts on color, as you think about designing your web sites, you might consider an item about color in Inf@Vis, 16 Oct 2006. Cynthia Brewer, of the Penn State University, proposed in 1994 some interesting guidelines on the use of colour in cartography and visualisation that lead to a set of colour schemes related to the classification of data that can be very useful when chosing the appropriate colour palette for our application.
- 29 May 2008 - Technology Review: Photoshop Finds its Way to the Web, Adobe offers a free, scaled down version of its photo-editing software. By Kate Greene, 03 Apr 2008
- 28 May 2008 - IBM's Symphony for the Office Worker; Could the new productivity suite from IBM become a significant threat to Microsoft's popular Office software? By John Borland, Technology Review, 28 Sep 2007
- 27 May 2008 - Zotero[zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work — in the web browser itself, from The Scout Report
- 23 May 2008 - 10x10. 100 Words and Pictures that Define the Time, from The Scout Report
- 22 May 2008 - several
items on the One-Laptop-per-Child initiative
- Technology Review: $100 Laptop Gets Redesigned: The new machine will have dual touch screens--and cheaper hardware. By David Talbot. 21 May 2008
- Reviewing the XO “$100” Laptop | LLRX.com, By Conrad J. Jacoby, Published on January 20, 2008
- Technology Review: $100 Laptop Program's New President: Charles Kane thinks industry partnerships will boost the laptop's marketability. By David Talbot, 02 May 2008
- Technology Review: Una Laptop por Niņo: The philanthropic effort dubbed the $100 Laptop has not met its grand initial goals. But its first deployment, in Peru, may turn skeptics into believers. By David Talbot, May/June 2008
- Microsoft Joins Effort for Laptops for Children - New York Times, By Steve Lohr, 16 May 2008. Look also at the links in the "Related Articles" section at the bottom of this NY Times page
- 21 May 2008 - Technology Review: Alarming Open-Source Security Holes. How a programming error introduced profound security vulnerabilities in millions of computer systems. By Simson Garfinkel, 20 May 2008
- 20 May 2008 - The Candidates on Technology: Find out where Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John McCain stand on key technology issues. By Matt Mahoney, Tech Review, 06 May 2008
- 19 May 2008 - 100 Million Websites, Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, 11 Nov 2006.
- 16 May 2008 - This VisualRoute Server provides a graphical traceroute and ping test from this server to any other network device you choose, useful for pinpointing network connectivity problems and identifying IP address locations - originally seen in FreePint
- 15 May 2008 - Special Reports IT: Web 3.0 - New technologies are changing the infrastructure of the Web, turning fragmented data sources into searchable wholes. Computers will gain the intelligence to understand, organize, and draw conclusions from online data. TechReview.
- 14 May 2008 - Computer in the Cloud: Online desktop systems could bridge the digital divide. By Erica Naone, in TechReview, 18 Sep 2007
- 13 May 2008 - Getting started with "Getting Things Done", Jan Verbogen in FreePint, 16 Jun 2005
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