Laurabelle's Blog

Why doesn't this seem as unrealistic as it should? Hoping it will push them to the top of an increasingly competitive market, Internet portal Yahoo has added soul-search capabilities to its expanding line of search tools, company executives announced Monday. Capable of navigating the billions of thoughts, experiences, and emotions that make up the human [...]

A lot of people are making noise these days about GMail, Google's new, free email service. 1,000 MB of free storage can't be bad, right? But it comes with a catch — Google will use the contents of the email stored in your account for the purposes of advertising:

Dorothea says some really good things about the love-hate relationship between library science and information science, although she doesn't put it exactly that way. The fact is that there are a lot of stereotypes going around between old-school librarians and technologists, and none of it is helping the mutual-good-feeling points, but we all need each [...]

Dorothea claims that the way to tell a librarian from a library technician is by whether that person knows his own Cutter number or not. While I don't disagree that it can be hard to tell those with a degree in library science from those without (alas, I used to be one of those people [...]

I have no idea why, but for the past few months I've had regular nightmares. They're not terribly frequent, maybe one every few weeks, but given that I had never in my life had a nightmare before I was 18 and that the next one after that was about 5 years later, this is an [...]