Lanier, Drake, & a Whole Mess of Mediocrity

An argument of this new culture of ours, where everything is easily accessible is that it creates a sort of “mediocre mush,” according to musician, and author Jaron Lanier. We can access virtually any song, sample it, remix it, and upload it, garnering…

The Internet (and technology) Won’t Replace the Library

As a class we have spent a great deal of time talking about how technology affects the library world — for both good and ill — and what these effects may mean for the future of our profession. Throughout my, admittedly brief, career…

The Google Solution

Last year, before my Network Systems Support Administrator retired, we had a bit of a “crisis” in our computer lab. A patron tried opening Microsoft Word to write a letter. This patron got a hold of me (I am the go to “geek”) and asked me to look at her computer. I walked in and noticed that a…

Moore’s Law: Limitation, Confusion, Inconsistencies

Moore’s law about the extremely fast expansion of computing power based on the number of transistors, and the limits of such expansion, is a bit more complicated than it may seem. As Singh (2015) recently pointed out, Moore’s observation…

US Government on Web Design and even Usability

About three weeks ago in class, we talked about web design, and some of that discussion connected with the discussion of usability the following week.

Can Moore’s Law be Saved by Carbon Nanotubes?

Moore’s Law, which posits that “the number of transistors packed into a computer chip will double every 18 months” (Metz) has been holding true for the most part thanks to Intel.

I’m Roy Kinsey. Born in Chicago in the fall of 1985. I’ve always been fond of expressing myself through writing. I got that from my parents. My very intelligent and musical parents. Natural performers. My mother and grandmother used to write the lyrics to Whitney Houston’s first album to learn the lyrics. I think that showed me the importance of…

I have been thinking a lot about the Standing Reserve. This is a concept Martin Heidegger wrote about in relation to the Greek notion of aletheia, or a disclosure, according to Heidegger. Disclosure is an unconcealing of the World. In relationship to information, what is disclosed is data, or “things given.” I had been writing about Heidegger in…

Shaimaa Alansari :)

This is Shaimaa Alansari; I am an international graduate student at Dominican University. This is my third semester at Dominican studying for my Master’s degree in Library and Information Science. An interesting fact about me is that I am the first female Saudi student who starts in the MLIS…

My [Filter] Bubbles!

Eli Praiser is the author of the book “The Filter Bubble.” A term he coined that describes what is happening today to the users of the internet and the personalized experiences each individual goes through when surfing the web.