For the mash-ups, I ssearched first for books and found a neat site call bookwormzonline.com that helps you locate independent bookstores by zip code, address, etc. and displays a map to them. I was happy to see that the two bookstores near my house were listed. I also searched for libraries and found libraries411 site. I'm not sure how the site "knew" what city/state I was located in because it displayed a very dense map of libraries in the greater Cleveland area. I could drill down to specific libraries & link to their web sites, or view maps, print directions, and get all sorts of information. I was very happy to see the great number of libraries in Cleveland, thanks to our great public library systems: Cleveland Public Libraries and Cuyahoga County Public Libraries.
Rollyo --I was alarmed to read in Librarian.net that color laser printers encode the printer's serial # and manufacturer # on documents printed from that printer. Xerox codes this information in little yellow dots on every printout. We don't have color printers in the library yet, but new printers that we purchase will probably be color. I think this is a real invasion of privacy!
I need to explore Rollyo further to see if there's a way to limit the search of privacy to current postings. The Shifted Librarian had old postings from 2003 & Libraryman had posting from 2005 which were too old for me.
I wasn't as surprised to read in Librarianinblack that Google is harvesting personal information and giving it away to the government and others. I think Google has to study usage of its resources in order to improve them and build on them. I was happy to read that people replying to this posting disagreed with the assessment that Google was giving away the data.
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