Daily Links and Deals: Even researchers agree that slow internet can stress you out

Posted on March 17, 2016 by Glinda Harrison

Daily Links for Thursday, March 17, 2016:

Tennessee kills muni-broadband expansion bill after AT&T opposition (Ars Technica) Big business wins against the people again. My city wanted to put in free wi-fi, so stories like this his close to home. 😦

Mossberg: The False Debate Between Open and Closed in Tech (ReCode) Part of the problem may be how we are defining these terms.

Newly discovered malware could attack factory-configured iPhones (The Next Web) The fact that this can affect factory-configured phones and not just jailbroken ones in a big deal.

Even researchers agree that slow internet can stress you out (Engadget) See? Too much buffering is bad for you! We now have studies to back it up!

NYC’s Free Wifi Service Is Turning Into a Privacy Nightmare (Gizmodo) Free wi-fi may be more expensive than you thought….

Deals of the Day:

Amazon’s Kindle Daily Deals includes Fated (Dark Protectors Book 1) by Rebecca Zanetti for $2.99.

The Barnes and Noble Nook Daily Find is The Irish Americans: A History by Jay P. Dolan for $1.99. The Romance Daily Find is The Deputy’s Redemption by Delores Fossen for 99 cents.

And just for St. Patrick’s Day, you can take $10 Off Your Purchase of $75 or More With CodeBNLUCKY17 when you shop BN.com.

Kobo’s Daily Deal is Good at Games by Jill Mansell for $1.99.

iTunes’ Weekly Bestsellers Under $4 includes Envy of Angels – A Sin du Jour Affair by Matt Wallace for $2.99.

(A note on Daily Deals: All prices current at the time of posting and subject to change. Most items marked Daily Deals are good for only the day posted.

Many large promotions have discount pricing that is set by the publisher. This usually means that titles can be found at a discount price across most platforms (with iTunes sometimes being the exception). If you have a favorite retailer you like to patronize, check the title on that website. There is a good chance that they will be matching the sale price.)

Daily Links are interesting links I discover as I go about my online day. The frequency and number of links posted depend upon the daily news. I also post other, different links of interest on Twitter and on the Google Plus eBook Evangelist Page.

Daily Links and Deals: Scribd waits until Valentine’s Day has passed, then breaks romance readers hearts

Posted on February 18, 2016 by Glinda Harrison

Daily Links for Thursday, February 18, 2016:

Scribd waits until Valentine’s Day has passed, then breaks romance readers hearts (LA Times) – Interesting take on the Scribd situation.

Neverware turns your old PC or Mac into a Chromebook, adds dual-booting (9 to 5 Google) – So, who has an old netbook just waiting to be resurrected?

When phone verification and recycled numbers collide, Lyft leaks user data (Ars Technica) – Wasn’t the phone identification supposed to make things safer?

Appeals court says Apple’s settlement in e-book price-fixing case can stand (Ars Technica) – No surprises here….

Why are some of the ugliest sites on the Web also the most popular? (The Next Web) – A look at websites that look like they belong back in the 1990s and why they are so popular.

Hospital pays $17K ransom to get back access to encrypted files (Computer World) – In an update to this story from a few days ago, the hospital has paid up.

Flexible smartphones may be coming sooner than you think (Engadget) – Is five years soon enough?

The 227-Year-Old Statute Being Used to Order Apple to Endanger Your Privacy, Explained (Gizmodo) – The irony of this is overwhelming….

Deals of the Day:

Amazon’s Kindle Daily Deal includes Neil Gaiman’s Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances for $1.99.

The Barnes and Noble Nook Daily Find is Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinsonfor $2.99. The Romance Daily Find is #scandal by Sarah Ockler for $1.99 (clever title!).

Kobo’s Daily Deal is Chasing Darkness: An Elvis Cole Novel by Robert Crais for $1.99.

iTunes’ Weekly Bestsellers Under $4 includes The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan for $2.99.

(A note on Daily Deals: All prices current at the time of posting and subject to change. Most items marked Daily Deals are good for only the day posted.

Library Corner: 1-20-2016

Posted on January 20, 2016 by Glinda Harrison

Here is this week’s roundup of library news:

US Library News:

Penn Libraries’ OPenn Manuscript Portal to Host the Country’s Largest Regional Collections of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts (Penn Libraries)

Wisconsin: Bill: Overdue library book? Police notified. (Fon du Lac Reporter/USA Network)

A playful turn for libraries (Harvard Gazette)

International Library News:

UK: Access to Research given green light to continue (Publishers Licensing Society)

Canada:Ottawa Public Library, Library and Archives Canada working together on new central branch (CBC News)

UK: Snooper’s charter: cafes and libraries face having to store Wi-Fi users’ data (The Guardian)

Italy: 4.5 Million Italians Have Read an eBook in the Past Three Months (The Digital Reader)

Russian minister vows investigation after ‘book burning’ at college libraries (The Telegraph UK)

Policy and Privacy:

Aspen Institute Launches Action Guide for Re-Envisioning Your Public Library (Aspen Institute)

Copyright:

Flickr Commons – Going Strong! (LOC)

How Mickey Mouse Evades the Public Domain (Priceonomics)

Reference and Statistics:

Economics: FRASER Database Adds Browse by Subject Feature, 1000+ Subjects Available (Infodocket)

Launch and Learn: Our New History Hub Pilot Project (National Archives AOTUS)

A New U.S. House Oversight and Gov Reform Committee Staff Report Says FOIA is “Broken” (Infodocket)

Digital Collections:

U.S. Homophile Internationalism: Archive and Exhibit (Out History)

29 Sketchbooks by Renowned Artist Richard Diebenkorn, Containing 1,045 Drawings, Now Freely Viewable Online (Open Culture)

Camden, Maine Public Library Joins the Flickr Commons (Infodocket)

815 Free Art Books from World Class Museums: The Met, the Guggenheim, the Getty & LACMA (Open Culture)

About once a week, I post links to digital-related library news articles and information about digital collections available online. I also post other links of interest about the digital life daily on the Google Plus eBook Evangelist Page.

Daily Links: How to preserve your work before the Internet eats it

Posted on January 14, 2016 by Glinda Harrison

Daily Links for Thursday, January 14, 2016:

How to preserve your work before the Internet eats it (Poynter) – We keep saying that information on the internet never goes away. We may want to re-think that….

Oh Snap! Founding Fathers Didn’t Envision Snapchatting State of Union (California Magazine) – How 21st century technology like Snapchat is affecting politics.

Do Americans Care About Privacy? It Depends, Because Privacy Is Personal… (Techcrunch) – Recent research seems to be offering somewhat ambiguous answers.

BBC risks excluding viewers by prioritising online content (The Guardian) – Since BBC viewers have to pay for their television, there are some valid concerns here.

‘Braille Kindle’ developed for the blind: Tactile tablet will allow people to feel images and text on the screen (Daily Mail) – This reader has a lot of potential.

Onyx Boox Maclay Android eReader Launches in Russia (The Digital Reader) – Another Onyx Boox e-reader launches at a more affordable price point.

Deals of the Day:

Amazon’s Kindle Daily Deal includes Song of the Silent Snow: Stories by Hubert Selby Jr. for $2.99.

As one of their Today’s Deals, Amazon is offering a Motorola Nexus 6 Unlocked Cellphone for$249.99 to 299.99, depending on color and configuration.

And, to celebrate their Golden Globe Wins, Amazon is offering free streaming of Mozart in the Jungle Season from Friday, January 15, at 9:00 p.m. PT to 11:59 p.m. local time on Sunday, January 17, 2016. Amazon Prime will be available for the reduced price of just $73 during the same period.

The Barnes and Noble Nook Daily Find is The Scream Catcher by Vincent Zandri for $1.99. The Romance Daily Find is paranormal romance Fated by Rebecca Zanetti for $2.99. B & N is also running a number of January promotions you can read about here.

Kobo’s Daily Deal is Fix, Freeze, Feast: The Delicious, Money-Saving Way to Feed Your Family by Kati Neville and Lindsay Tkacsik for $2.99. There is also a selection of Great Reads For $4.99 or Less.

iTunes’ Weekly Bestsellers Under $4 includes Two Minute Rule by Robert Crais for $2.99.

(A note on Daily Deals: All prices current at the time of posting and subject to change. Most items marked Daily Deals are good for only the day posted.

CES Roundup for 1-5-2016

Posted on January 5, 2016 by Glinda Harrison

Today’s interesting stories from CES 2016 for January 5, 2016:

Fitbit Announces the Fitbit Blaze Smartwatch! (Gear Diary) And then immediately took a stock hit for it…. (Techcrunch)

First app-enabled pregnancy test is delivered at CES (Mashable) – This was probably inevitable. But an app to wait for results with you?

This is how you get smart drunk at CES 2016 (The Verge) – Yes! Let’s have better drinking through technology!

Reclaim Your Privacy with the eBlocker (Gear Diary) – Forget those pesky ad blockers! This one stop solution can do all the work for you.

Sony’s new Walkman comes in splashy rainbow colors (The Verge) – Look! This year in colors! Do we really need another iteration of a Walkman?

No, I am not going to CES, but I love reading about the gadgets. I will be doing these roundup posts intermittently during the week. The official CES website is here.

Did you know that Amazon has a page for products from CES2016? You can find it here.

Daily Links: Paying for news with your privacy

Posted on November 9, 2015 by Glinda Harrison

Think you’re reading the news for free? New research shows you’re likely paying with your privacy (The Conversation) – Yes, I have been stalked by a pair of shoes – and a piece or two of furniture as well.

Cord cutters cut off from presidential debates (CNET) – Media is changing and the debates are one area where online viewing has not caught up.

UK gov’t promises all homes will have legal right to 10Mbps broadband by 2020 (Ars Technica) – The big question is can the UK actually pull this off?

An Archive of 10,000 Cylinder Recordings Readied for the Spotify Era (Hyperallergic) – Yes, you can actually listen to (and download) works from this amazing collection from the UCSB Library.

On Amazon, the Kindle, the Paperwhite and the Kindle Kids bundle are all $20 off until Wednesday.