Archive for November, 2008

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

Google Chrome

So Google Chrome has been around for a while now. What I’m hearing and experiencing most about this new web browser is that it’s FAST! And the biggest drawback is that there aren’t plugins available yet. And I know when I tried it right at the beginning that it had issues with displaying popups and [...]

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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

Info Literacy – A Waste of Time?

Would you voluntarily submit to being instructed about a topic where you already consider yourself to qualify as an expert in that subject matter? If you did – or were forced to – you would probably find it incredibly boring or tune it out all together. Well, a new report may help to explain why [...]

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Monday, November 10th, 2008

YouTube Expanding the Rules

Adding to the confusion regarding copyright, but certainly increasing accessibility for consumers, YouTube has partnered with MGM to provide full-length movies on their site. This will also include episodes of TV shows produced by MGM and will supplement a similar deal already announced last month with CBS.

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