According to this news report, Wikipedia may “freeze” some of its encyclopedia entries that have been vetted by experts as a way to make faculty and students feel more comfortable about using the encyclopedia that anyone can edit. This would allow for people to point to a specific article’s archived copy in a much easier [...]
Have you ever Googled yourself? I have. The Pew Internet & American Life’s report “Digital Footprints: Online Identity Management and Search in the Age of Transparency” (Link to the PDF) provides an interesting insight into the topic of an online identity. To be honest, since the report is 50 pages, I didn’t [...]
I just finished reading the article “Getting Past Google: Perspectives on Information Literacy from the Millennial Mind” by Carie Windham (PDF). It’s worth a read, especially for librarians and administrators at schools & colleges. One thing in there that I thought was especially useful was a set of tips on staying safe on [...]
