“New Readers” Graphic – from the NY Times; lessons for librarians and faculty?

See entire story here:  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/books/27reading.html
More and more of our library users are reading in ways that might seem a bit (or a lot) foreign) to non digital natives.  Are they learning as much? Acquiring 21st century skills?  Shortening attention spans? These are questions still to be answered, and perhaps librarians and  teaching faculty are in [...]

A new study of medical blogs is available from the Journal of General Internal Medicine

BACKGROUND: Medical weblogs (“blogs”) have emerged
as a new connection between health professionals and
the public.
OBJECTIVE: To examine the scope and content of
medical blogs and approximate how often blog authors
commented about patients, violated patient privacy, or
displayed a lack of professionalism.
DESIGN: We defined medical blogs as those that contain
some medical content and were apparently written by
physicians or nurses…
RESULTS: [...]

Cuil – a new search engine to consider using…

A brand new search engine is available and one I was curious about, so I took a quick look and found it fascinating…give it a try!
From their About Page:
The Internet is getting bigger and more disorganized every day. Cuil’s goal is to solve the two great problems of search: how to index the whole Internet—not [...]