At the Ref Desk (5/22/18): Got an IM request explaining in great detail (several sentences in fact) what kind of article the person was looking for. Only thing missing -- the topic. Oh well... [more...]

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Current Readings around Town...

Title Date Author Source
The Reckoning Over Social Media Has Transformed SXSW 3/14/18 Casey Newton The Verge
Social Media Use in 2018 3/1/18 Aaron Smith, Monica Anderson Pew Research Center
How robo-callers outwitted the government and completely wrecked the Do Not Call list 1/11/18 Simon van Zuylen-Wood Washington Post
Don’t Gut Net Neutrality. It’s Good for People and Business 1/5/17 Nicholas Economides Wired
More People Now Access the Internet Via Mobile Than Desktop, Study says 11/2/16 n/a Fast Company
Why Bad Ballot Design Is a Really Significant Problem 10/20/16 Lena Groeger ProPublica
How Humanities Can Help Fix the World 10/2/16 John McCumber Chronicle of Higher Education
Open Access : All Human Knowledge Is There - So Why Can't Everybody Access It? 6/17/16 Glyn Moody Ars Technica
The Fathers of the Internet Revolution Urge Today’s Software Engineers to Reinvent the Web 6/13/16 Tekla S. Perry IEEE Spectrum
CSS at BBC Sport (Part 1) 5/31/16 Shaun Bent Medium
Has the Library Outlived Its Usefulness in the Age of Internet? You'd Be Surprised 4/28/16 Donald A. Barclay Conversation US
Media Websites Battle Faltering Ad Revenue and Traffic 4/17/16 John Herrman New York Times
Aussies Rail on New, 'Vomit-like' AU$5 banknote 4/12/16 n/a Deutsche Welle
Libraries lose a quarter of staff as hundreds close 3/29/16 Daniel Wainwright, Paul Bradshaw, Pete Sherlock, Antia Geada BBC
How a Former Lobbyist Became the Broadband Industry's Worst Nightmare 3/16/16 Jon Brodkin Ars Technica

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