Borges: Where Libraries Meet Schopenhauer

The Library of Babel is a short story about a fictional library written by Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges. It is set in an infinite library composed of hexagonal room and contacting nothing but books full of randomly combined letters. In the library, cults have formed that seek…

Radio Is Dead, Long Live Radio

Recently, I found myself wondering about radio. Radio, which had its first licensed broadcast in 1920 (Pluskota, 2015), has survived decades of new technology that should have destroyed it: television, 8-track tapes, cassette tapes, CDs, and MP3 players, just to name a few…

My time at Dominican University

This post was written a while ago, but for some reason didn’t show up on the website so I’m taking the time to retool it a little bit now that I’ve taken a few more classes.

A Case Study about the Mobile Web

“Library on the go: a focus group study of the mobile web and the academic library” is a case study about students who use mobile technology to access the academic library’s mobile Website in the Kent State University, which focused on its students. What I like is that Kent university…

The future of reference

I have read an article about the Future of Reference is Outside the Library that presents the future vision of reference services and how it should be as bedrock of the community. It seems the sites of libraries now becomes different, and libraries want to engage with the community and change the idea…

Usability: A Critical Thinking Exercise

The usability study was a great opportunity to think critically about the effects of a website’s design on how users access its content. That is certainly something I gained from doing it myself, and I’m sure all of us did while we shared our respective…

The Difficulties of Freemium

I am a victim of freemium. A lot of us are. Freemium is a business model in which, as Vineet Kumar (2014) explains, “Users get basic features at no cost and can access richer functionality for a subscription fee.” One of the most popular examples of a freemium service out there…

Live, Laugh, Love… and Level UP

Games have been an essential part of society for centuries, if not longer. Games provide a sense of fulfillment for those who achieve their goals; they cultivate perseverance to those who are defeated; and foster pride among spectators. The Ancient Olympics games as well as…

Moore’s Law: in Theory and Practice

We’ve had a number of fascinating discussions in our class sessions throughout this semester about the nature of digital technologies, which are undergoing immense changes, and how such changes are impacting society. I’ve enjoyed these discussions because it gives us…

Rethinking Privacy

On September 21st, 2015 a presentation by a fellow classmate jogged my noggin’. The presentation was about Google analytics. Now, as groups, we discussed privacy as well as data collection of users. Some of us were not comfortable with the idea, whereas others embraced this. For me, I wasn’t…