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Consumer News

Just in time for the holidays: a blog dedicated to shopping.
It's called The Consumerist and it has a lot of tips on everything from finding customer service phone numbers to special sales.
I'm not a huge fan of shopping (or of reading about shopping), but it's something most of us have to deal with this time of year. We may as well enter the shopping fray as prepared as possible.

posted by Steve in the Library on Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Secret Sites

Jason Kottke has an interesting post on secret sites.
In the post, he reveals he has a secret Web site that only his friends know about. He says a lot of people with public sites also seem to have these secret ones.
It's an interesting thing to think about. We already know about the Invisible Web. But are secret sites a subset of those hidden pockets of information? Should we consider information that wants to be hidden part of the Web? Or is it something personal we have no business reading or finding.
It's a tough call.

posted by Steve in the Library on Friday, December 09, 2005

CUNY eMall

I'm not sure how long this has been up, but if you log-in to the CUNY portal , there's an option to visit the CUNY eMall (it's a little shopping bag on the left side of the screen). The CUNY eMall seems to offer discounts on various products and services. I haven't really checked that out, but I did notice this: https://elms12.e-academy.com/cuny/symantecdirections.htm. It's a link on how to download Symantec antivirus for free!

posted by Steve in the Library on Wednesday, December 07, 2005

The Perils of Wikipedia

USA Today has a scary, first-person piece on the dangers of Wikipedia.
It's written by John Seigenthaler, who worked for Robert Kennedy, and became the source of a false Wikipedia biography.
Wikipedia, which lets anyone create or edit content, had the biography up for 132 days!
Interestingly, Seigenthaler's current Wikipedia biography, which might still be incorrect for all we know, links to the USA Today story.
Wikipedia can be very helpful, but it can also be completely misleading. Unfortunately, it's not easy to tell when it's being one or the other.
So always be careful using Wikipedia as a source.

posted by Steve in the Library on Thursday, December 01, 2005

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		Consumer News Just in time for the holidays: a blog dedicated to shopping. It's called The Consumerist and it has a lot of tips on everything from finding customer service phone numbers to special sales. I'm not a huge fan of shopping (or of reading about shopping), but it's something most of us have to deal with this time of year. We may as well enter the shopping fray as prepared as possible. posted by Steve in the Library on Wednesday, December 14, 2005 Secret Sites Jason Kottke has an interesting post on secret sites. In the post, he reveals he has a secret Web site that only his friends know about. He says a lot of people with public sites also seem to have these secret ones. It's an interesting thing to think about. We already know about the Invisible Web. But are secret sites a subset of those hidden pockets of information? Should we consider information that wants to be hidden part of the Web? Or is it something personal we have no business reading or finding. It's a tough call. posted by Steve in the Library on Friday, December 09, 2005 CUNY eMall I'm not sure how long this has been up, but if you log-in to the CUNY portal , there's an option to visit the CUNY eMall (it's a little shopping bag on the left side of the screen). The CUNY eMall seems to offer discounts on various products and services. I haven't really checked that out, but I did notice this: https://elms12.e-academy.com/cuny/symantecdirections.htm. It's a link on how to download Symantec antivirus for free! posted by Steve in the Library on Wednesday, December 07, 2005 The Perils of Wikipedia USA Today has a scary, first-person piece on the dangers of Wikipedia. It's written by John Seigenthaler, who worked for Robert Kennedy, and became the source of a false Wikipedia biography. Wikipedia, which lets anyone create or edit content, had the biography up for 132 days! Interestingly, Seigenthaler's current Wikipedia biography, which might still be incorrect for all we know, links to the USA Today story. Wikipedia can be very helpful, but it can also be completely misleading. Unfortunately, it's not easy to tell when it's being one or the other. So always be careful using Wikipedia as a source. posted by Steve in the Library on Thursday, December 01, 2005