So, whether these sites will be useful or not is up for debate. I personally have found it to be of great importance in my life.

I’m going to say something obvious and try to make it sound profound: technology changes the way we approach our work.

In the recent NetConnect supplement to Library Journal, Melissa L. Rethlefsen writes about how federated search is easier, but does not always create the best quality results. Federated search can search across library databases, library OPACs, and internet search engines.

That’s the big idea Fast Company floated on Friday, anyway. It wasn’t a very popular idea. In fact, only about 20% of commenters agreed with the statement.

After entering the corporate world, I have been thinking about how our language and word choice affects who we are, or mostly importantly who we claim to be. But as I continued to reflect, I realized that language is just as dynamic as the people speaking it. As technology and marketing evolve rapidly, so will our vernacular.

Any thoughts on staying productive during a trip? Should I just give up on work and try to relax? Or is it realistic for me to stay plugged in with the appropriate gadgets?

Social Browse is a Firefox Add-on. It sits comfortably on the left side of my browser. You can show and hide it much like your web history. Social Browse is what you would get if you were to take StumbleUpon and Delicious, run them into each other at high speeds, and then make it easier to share/use.

“My Brain Hurts” is a great look at how the digital revolution is leaving the consumer behind. Or in other words, how geek marketers like me are pushing the technology faster than consumers are keeping up.

There is nothing worse than coming to home to a full mailbox that’s devoid of anything useful. From supermarket flyers to catalogs to credit card offers, I’m inundated daily with mail that hits the recycling bin without being read.

When I search on my clients’ intranets, I get a list of all the pages which contain all or part of my search query—there’s no authority algorithm to filter my results for me. As a result, the bigger the intranet, the more useless the search function.