Adapting To Technology

What kind of technology user are you? Take the Pew Internet & American Life Project Internet Typology Survey and find out. The survey is designed to measure how internet users and their online pursuits have changed over time.

Who's Doing What on the Web

An article from Business Week discusses demographics and activities of Web users. For demographic breakdown of your institution, try contacting the institutional research services at your college.

--Jason Setzer
Reference Librarian
Davidson County Community College

Second Life and Google Metaverse

Here's an article from Technology Review about a Second Life and Google Earth Metaverse. Free registration is required to access the article through the web site; however, NC LIVE users can access the article via EBSCO's Academic Search Premier.

--Jason Setzer
Reference Librarian
Davidson County Community College

All a-Twitter

Twitter allows individuals to post brief updates about what they're doing at a specific moment. Since it's inception, people have found other uses for Twitter. Here's an article on the Top 5 Ways Smart People Use Twitter.

--Jason Setzer
Reference Librarian
Davidson County Community College

New Natural Language Search Engine

There's a new natural language search engine that claims to consider the "meaning" and "context" of queries. The search engine uses several "grammar engines" to identify the relationships between words.

--Jason Setzer
Reference Librarian
Davidson County Community College

The Blended Librarian

Read their definition of a Blended Librarian to find out why you might want to examine their Resources and Tools pages.