Library News Round-Up – 27 February 2009
Are there stories about or concerning libraries that you think are worth sharing? Please leave us a comment and provide a link so we can check it out! Here are a few of the stories I ran across in the past few weeks that I felt were worth noting.
Books and E-Books
![Kindle via xkcd](http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/kindle.png)
Libraries and Librarians
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Internet and Technology
Some MIT students developed a wearable computing system that "turns any surface into an interactive display screen." Wired has the story, with neat videos. The NY Times explores the "deep web", the database-driven underworld of internet information that surface-skimming web crawlers have difficulty indexing. Sure, Google has over 1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion) web sites indexed ... but you might consider some other search engines if you want to get at deeper content. Google now has a Twitter account. PC World posits that this may be the first step in Google's acquisition of the popular micro-blogging service. Their first tweet? "I’m 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010." Which means, of course, "I'm feeling lucky."(html)