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This is an interesting article on what is basically a gossip site geared toward college students. It’s also kinda of scary at whats being posted on there and the owners response from requests by his alma mater. I am impressed with the actions of the students in taking a stand.

Over on the ACRL Blog, Melissa Mallon posts about things she did learn in library school. A change from all of the posts highlighting what they didn’t learn and overall very positive. What did you learn in library school that’s helped you out?

Resourceshelf just reported more acquisitions/mergers in the library realm involving Proquest, Webfeat, and Serial Solutions. I agree that we need a scorecard to keep up with all of these transactions.

According to Wired online, Vista Service pack 1 will be officially “ruled” (or should be rolled) out in mid-March to those that choose to download updates themselves from the website and mid April to those with automatic updates. Is your library ready?

Okay no it’s not Friday, but I forgot to post this then. Google Maps that once told us the best way to get across the Atlantic Ocean was to swim, now tells us how to get from Here to There.

The blog Drawn! shares with us this cool site that gathers together the different covers of Pelican Books from the 1930 to the 1980’s. It’s interesting to take a look and see the different types of covers from each decade and makes you wonder…how did they end up choosing some of these things?

For those of you that still haven’t updated to IE7, be prepared as it will be forced out in the critical updates on Feb. 12.

Google Health is coming soon. Phil Bradley posts this screenshot of the page. Kinda of creepy that Google (sorry, the all knowing one) is moving in this direction. It’s still about making information accessible , as outlined in this post, but I’m not sure I’d want Google to be the one doing this.

According to Rochelle , who talked to Amazon customer support, libraries that are lending out Kindles (Amazon’s ebook reader) to patrons are in violation of the terms of service. She makes some compelling points on questions that Amazon needs to answer, such as ways to disable people from downloading without disabling the account.

An article wasreleased today on young adults vs. the not so young and “tehcnological turf.” More young adults are finding not only their friends on Facebook and Myspace, but their parents and grandparents. Gone are the days where they had to walk their parents through how to use a computer, now they want to be “friends” on Facebook or IM. This has raised some issues for young people interviewed in the article, as they try to find a space that adults can’t see every move they make.