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We are a group of staff & faculty from the Texas A&M University Libraries interested in watching trends in technology that affect libraries, research, and education.

In the news

• Putting the Library in Wikipedia -- Univ North Texas librarians add scholarly content, feature UNT Texas history collections, but report some problems, run afoul of some Wikipedia guidelines and rules. InfoToday Online Sept 3, 2008
• Nielson Online ratings Wikipedia -- about 3/4 of traffic driven by search engines, primarily Google; traffic increase of 8000% in 5 years
• Frozen Wikipedia potentially better for college Chronicle of Higher Education May 16, 2008
• scholar2scholar: how web 2.0 is changing scholarly communication archived webinar and more from Drexel University Libraries' Scholarly Communication Symposium April 2008
• Horizon Report 2008 white paper on key emerging technologies from The New Media Consortium and the Educause Learning Initiative
• Cell Phone Novels from Wired
• Best Future Technology Trends (7 min video)
• Gantz, John F., et al. The Diverse and Exploding Digital Universe: an updated forecast of worldwide information growth through 2011 March 2008 IDC White Paper
• Tynan, Dan The Ten Most Disruptive Technology Combinations Washington Post Mar 19, 2008
• 25 facebook apps that are perfect for online education
• Michels, Patrick Universities use Second Life to teach complex concepts Government Technology Feb 26, 2008
• [http://www.crossref.org/01company/pr/press021208.htm Cross Ref offers free citation look up for Bloggers from CrossRef
• Travel 2.0 Social Networking takes a useful Turn[http://www.usatoday.com/travel/columnist/grossman/2007-01-26-grossman_x.htm USA Today
• Toshiba Quits HD DVD Business (the format war is over)[http://news.wired.com/dynamic/stories/J/JAPAN_TOSHIBA?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-02-19-07-41-57 Wired
• Microsoft to Announce WorldWide Telescope on February 27TechCrunch
• Sonico, the Biggest Social Network You've Probably Never Heard of[http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/16/sonico-the-biggest-social-networking-site-youve-probably-never-heard-of/ TechCrunch
• Microsoft, Yahoo Merger Talks No Longer Active[http://www.cnbc.com/id/18484517 CNBC Business News
• Harvard Faculty Adopts Open Access Requirement
• Gartner Says "Generation Virtual" Will Have a Profound Influence on Culture, Society and Business
• Generation V entry from[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_V Wikipedia
• Technology Petting Zoos from[http://stephenslighthouse.sirsidynix.com/archives/2008/02/technology_pett.html Stephen's Lighthouse
• Mashups: The new breed of Web app fromIBM
• 15 Trends to Watch 2008 fromPublisher's Weekly