Times are tough. Library funding is down, library use is up, and people are asking more and more questions demanding more and more time from their public library staff. In response to these increasing demands on library resources, Library Development staff at the Washington State Library have been c...

The [in]famous (to those listening to TWiT podcasts, at least) Andy Ihnatko and Scott Bourne have started up a new Q&A-style website known as "Managing Your Digital Life" or MYDL.me and, in a fit of generosity, are giving away not one, but two Drobos to some random, lucky souls, all f...

LISWire.com, The Librarian's News Wire, is the sister site to LISNews.org. Birdie (AKA Robin K. Blum) and I run LISWire where we allow member companies and organizations to send their full-text news releases and multimedia content to librarians, journalists, library professionals and the general pub...

Kalooga is a new Dutch search-engine for images. Rather than searching for individual images, it only looks for coherent sets / collections of images on the topic. On a few test searches for broad terms like “bananas”, it seems useful and fast....

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I don't much care for that word "boobs" but what else can they be as shown in this picture: Yes, I did Google "Asian Boob Scarf", Sally, and only waded through two pages of "lusty Asian girls" on the image results before finding these lovely ladies. You don't think of genteel looking Asian women bei...

I switched to the Vigilance theme on my site because I like it’s clean look and lines… but thought it was missing something. I didn’t want to specify a single image for its optional banner, and don’t actually use Flickr myself, but I spent a little time tweaking phpFlickr and...

It came from Sweden......

The New Media Index is a weekly report that captures the leading commentary of blogs and social media sites focused on news and compares those subjects to that of the mainstream press. PEJ launched the New Media Index as a companion to its weekly News Coverage Index. Blogs and other new media are an...

The band Officer Roseland has decided to pay its fans to download their newest album, Stimulus Package. By going to http://www.mystimuluspackage.org/stimulus/ and clicking GIVE Officer Roseland will give $1 to the Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation then present a download link, or clicking TAKE Off...