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Library News & Notes —
November 28, 2008

Internet Sites of the Week

After the Crash: How Software Models Doomed the Markets
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=after-the-crash&sc=WR_20081125

A Do-It-Yourself Christmas: 34 Great Gifts You Can Make Yourself
http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2008/11/13/(Shortened url)
(Source: Neat New Stuff on the Net)

Facebook broke my heart
http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/articles/2008/11/25/kristin_oneill_blames_facebook_for_her_recent_breakup/

Google Page Rank - What Do You Know About it
http://www.pandia.com/sew/1012-google-page-rank.html

Group think
"The turn to online research is narrowing the range of modern scholarship, a new study suggests"
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/11/23/group_think/
(Source: The Kept-Up Academic Librarian)

Harvard Freezes Staff Hiring and May Call Off Faculty Searches
http://chronicle.com/news/article/5567/harvard(Shortened url)

How to improve email communication: Developing strategies to mimic face-to-face interactions
http://www.physorg.com/news146850901.html

IBM plans 'brain-like' computers
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7740484.stm

Kill Your Telephone
http://www.slate.com/id/2205328/?from=rss

Massachusetts: Best 'New Economy' state
http://money.cnn.com/2008/11/18/smallbusiness/(Shortened url)

More Gamble Than Gift: This Holiday Season's High-Tech Duds
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/(Shortened url)

Online networks a magnet for job-seekers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/26/(Shortened url)

The Network Of Everything: Personal Networks Will Have To Cope With At Least A Thousand Devices
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081117082425.htm
(Source: SciTechDaily)

The Three-E Strategy for Overcoming Resistance to Technological Change
http://connect.educause.edu/Library/(Shortened url)
(Source: Library Web)

100 Blogs That Will Make You Smarter
http://www.onlineuniversities.com/blog/2008/11/100-blogs-that-will-make-you-smarter/
(Source: Library Stuff)

 

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Received November 22 - 28, 2008