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Here is a fascinating presentation by Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University. Michael gave a talk at the Library of Congress about YouTube and its role in the participatory culture.
He explains how one of his videos, Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us, became very popular in [...]

A Google employee performed an informal interview of 50 people passing though Time Square, asking them questions about browsers (what is a browser, & how is it different from Google; have you heard of Google Chrome). While the video is edited & comes from Google, it is fun to hear the responses. Apparently, [...]

I was inspired by a recent article to investigate the new touch screens that are being developed by companies like N-Trig and Sony. You may even already own some technology that this, such as some of the new touch screen mobile phones. Below is a video that was posted several months ago that [...]

Microsoft has upped the competition with the new release of its Xbox. At the 2009 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) this week, Microsoft showed the direction it intends to go for home entertainment and computing with its first public demonstration of its Project Nadal. Instead of serving as a simple gaming center, it will [...]

Google will release a new free open source tool called Google Wave for communication and collaboration on the web, coming later this year. This seems to be an alternative to some social networking sites (e.g. MySpace & Facebook), as well as e-learning packages (e.g. Sakai & Blackboard). Some interesting features include the natural language [...]

A number of people have asked me how Google gets their Street View images for their mapping service. I asked a Google representative at a library conference how the images were obtained, and was informed that a camera was basically strapped to the top of a car which is driven up and down local [...]

This is one of my favorite videos dealing with libraries. It is a little over two minutes, but also combines humor with the “library” content. Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHljR4LYmOA

This is a really cool chalkboard animation that is very well made. I can’t imagine how long this took to draw, but it there must be hundreds, if not thousands of drawings from this one animation.
Firekites – AUTUMN STORY – chalk animation from Lucinda Schreiber on Vimeo.

Here is a great video of Mindspot, a universe for youth. It is a library built for the needs of youth in the Aarhus Public Libraries, Denmark. Find more info see http://www.mindspot.dk

On Tuesday, a lawsuit was filed against the U.S. Patent and Trade Office and Myriad Genetics, challenging whether the U.S. government has the right to grant exclusive patent rights to private companies for human genes. The patenting of genes is not a new phenomenon; according to various sources such as http://news.nationalgeogra