Friday, December 17, 2010

Another proof to the statement that "Use does not equal support" - Delicious is being discontinued by Yahoo: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2010/12/yahoo.html

Here is a fix from LifeHacks:
http://thenextweb.com/lifehacks/2010/12/17/how-to-export-import-and-migr ate-delicious-bookmarks/

Sunday, December 05, 2010

Good article (actually 3rd of a 3 part series) on the future of Social Networking, by Mark Suster in TechCrunch:
http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/05/social-networking-future/

He makes 8 predictions of how social networking will be moving. My question - which direction will our academic medical library be needing to take - or should we aim for them all? I look forward to hearing any and all of your comments.

Wednesday, December 01, 2010

Saw this news story today - couple bought a house that turned out to be a meth house:
http://articles.cnn.com/2010-11-29/us/couple.buys.meth.house_1_meth-lab-home-inspectors-drug-lab?_s=PM:US

Way back in 1999 when I was moving to a large city, I asked for a Lexus/Nexis search to be done on the house addresses that I had narrowed in on - doesn't anyone else do that? Sort of like a CarFax for houses... Your library, if you subscribe to that database, might offer to do that for people moving to your area. I doubt that a Real Estate broker would want to partner up with you, since they are only going to disclose what is legally required, and after all, are in the business of completing the sale.