Black Students Experience More Online Bias Than Whites

"A new study has found that black students experience more online racial discrimination and generally have a more negative view of campus racial diversity than their white counterparts."

If Libraries Remove Computers, Will Anyone Come?

"If iPads and other new mobile computers catch on, libraries might not need to offer rooms full of computers for students to do their research, writing, and Facebooking. But if that happens, will students have any reason left to visit the library?"

Church Recruits Young Priests Via Facebook

"On Facebook, Humblot discovered a forum dedicated to people who, like him, are considering the priesthood. The page was part of a campaign, launched by the Catholic Church this month, to attract young people to the priesthood following decades of dwindling ordainments — and amid waves of sexual abuse allegations that have darkened the reputation of the Catholic priest."

If Libraries Remove Computers, Will Anyone Come?

". . .But now Mr. Mathews says he hears colleagues planning to remove desktops and trying programs to loan out iPads or netbooks to students who want to use a computer while in the library. 'So the real question is: What happens when they don't need computers anymore?' His answer is sobering for library officials: 'If you take the computers out of the commons, I think you'd see our numbers drop by half,' he argues."

Poll Shows Most Young Adults Engage in Risky Online Behaviors

"Despite possessing a high level of awareness about threats lurking on the Internet, young adults routinely engage in risky online behavior, says a report from RSA, the security division of EMC, based on a TRU Research survey of 1,000 18- to 24-year-olds."

Web Site Is Building a Searchable Index of Open Courseware

"The owner of a new Web site wants his search engine to become an easy way to comb through the open courseware of many colleges."

Should CEOs Be Fluent in Social Media?

"We had a chance to sit down with Forrester Research CEO George Colony at this year’s Forrester Marketing Forum to talk about whether or not CEOs should be engaged in social media."

Study: Net Neutrality Rules Would Cost Telecom Jobs

"Network neutrality rules adopted by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission could lead to the loss of more than 340,000 jobs in the broadband industry over the next 10 years, with few offsetting Web content jobs, according to a new study funded by a group opposed to the proposed rules."

Microsoft, Google Eye Arabic Web Growth Potential

"The further integration of Arabic language capabilities in internet and other technological architecture will grant millions access to the digital world, Microsoft and Google executives said."

U.S. Students Suffering From Internet Addiction: Study

"American college students are hooked on cellphones, social media and the Internet and showing symptoms similar to drug and alcohol addictions, according to a new study."

The iSeminary Cometh

"Across the board, online technology is dramatically changing the landscape of undergraduate- and graduate-level education, including for many of the 234 American and Canadian members of the Association of Theological Schools (ATS)."

Microsoft Office 2010 Arrives May 12

"So what's really new in the new Office? Microsoft has plenty of selling points to tempt you, but highlights include new search features, a co-authoring tool that lets multiple users edit a document simultaneously, more online features letting you find your documents using any Web browser, new diagramming and charting features, language translation, and numerous cosmetic changes."

Web Hit By Hi-Tech Crime Wave

"Hi-tech criminals are racking up more than 100 attacks a second on the world's computers, a survey suggests."

Study: Teen Girls Text Far More Than Boys

"The Pew Internet and American Life Project surveyed 800 teens across the country, and found 88-percent of Americans ages 12 to 17 have nearly replaced talking with texting, CBS station WCBS-TV reports. A third of teens send more than 100 texts a day. That's 3,000 texts a month. And girls type away much more than their counterparts, sending an average of 80 texts a day compared to just 30 for boys."

Ten Countries Urge Privacy Changes at Google

"Data protection and privacy chiefs from 10 countries issued a joint letter pushing search engine giant Google to improve respect for data privacy, Canada's Office of the Privacy Commissioner said on Tuesday."

Fast-growing Facebook Aims For More Social Web

"Facebook's user base is growing at its fastest rate ever, the online social network company said on Wednesday as it rolled out features that link the company's platform more tightly with outside Web sites."

Google Helps Online Searchers With Spelling

"Google on Friday said it has enhanced its search engine to make it easier for people to find what they seek online despite spelling slips."

How Twitter Has Changed

"At its developer conference, codenamed Chirp, the company unveiled promoted tweets, new official mobile apps, an enhanced geo-tagging feature, a proprietary link-shortening function, live search on Bing and the sale of its archives."

Study: Young Adults Do Care About Online Privacy

New report shows "young adults generally care as much about privacy as older Americans."

Multitasking Has Its Limits

"For those who think they can juggle several tasks at once with ease, new research from France suggests that humans may not be able to perform more than two complicated jobs at one time."

Google Unveils 'Replay' Search Feature

"It's already easy to find relevant Twitter updates in Google real-time search results. Now, thanks to a new Google feature, you can see what people were tweeting about a topic last week or last month."

Twitter Claims 105 million Registered Users

"Twitter has more than 105 million registered users, co-founder Biz Stone said Wednesday. The announcement, at the micro-blogging site's Chirp conference for developers, marked the first time Twitter has announced it number of accounts. The tally - 105,779,710, to be exact - is significantly more than outside analysts had estimated. The company also says it's adding 300,000 accounts per day, with much of its growth coming outside the United States."

Library of Congress to Archive your Tweets

"Twitter and the Library of Congress announced Wednesday that every public tweet posted since Twitter started in 2006 will be archived digitally by the federal library."

Study: Frequent Password Changes are Useless

"Now new research proves what you've probably suspected ever since your first pop-up announcing that your password has expired and you need to create a new one. This presumed security measure is little more than a big waste of time, the Boston Globe reports."

Nearly 800,000 U.S. TV households 'cut the cord,' report says

"Make no mistake: The big cable, satellite, and telco carriers are still sitting pretty with more than 100 million TV subscribers. Nevertheless, a new report claims that more and more viewers are "cutting the cord" in favor of watching their favorite shows via over-the-air antennas (remember those?), Netflix, or the Web."

Distance Education's Rate of Growth Doubles at Community College

"Distance education is growing quickly at community colleges, according to the results of a study published by the Instructional Technology Council. For the 2008-9 academic year, enrollment in distance learning at community colleges grew 22 percent over the 2007-8 academic year, up from a growth rate of 11 percent in the previous year."

Survey of Over 3,000 US-Based Faculty

"Ithaka S+R has released results from its fourth faculty survey in the last decade examining changes in faculty attitudes toward the academic library, information resources and the scholarly communications system as a whole."

The full report is here.

Watching the Internet Think

"The Web is an organism, and science can graph it. Through mesmerizing, flowing images and pulsing charts, new Web sites show who's talking about which topics, how the Internet is connected, and even which colors are popular this season. It's literally the pulse of the Web."

Twitter Set to Make Money Through Advertisements

"Popular microblogging site Twitter is all set to unveil its advertisement model on Tuesday, which would mark its first step toward allaying concerns about its revenue generating potential."

Online Journalists Make Pulitzer History

"Today, a cartoonist for SFGate.com, the online arm of the San Francisco Chronicle, and an investigative journalist at ProPublica won Pulitzer Prizes for their work. The reason we’ve dubbed these wins “history-making” is because this is the first time any online-only publication has won the prestigious award for editorial content."

Plagiarism Spawns $146-Million Ghostwriting Industry in China, Report Says

"Commercial sales of ghostwritten dissertations and journal articles were worth nearly 1 billion yuan (or more than $146-million) in 2009, a 500-percent increase over 2007, according to the study, by Shen Yang."

Without a Trace

"TigerText is a smart-phone application that allows its users to exchange text messages that disappear after a set period. . ."

What Would Henry Luce Make of the Digital Age?

"What made Luce a revolutionary figure in American life was not his politics or his religion or his missionary zeal. It was his success in creating a new era of communications that had an enormous impact on the culture of the 20th century. . ."

Visual Artists Plan to Sue Google Over Digital-Library Project

"In another potential setback for the vast digital library planned by Google, several groups representing photographers and other visual artists plan to file a federal lawsuit against the company on Wednesday, alleging that its efforts to digitize millions of library books amounts to a large-scale infringement of their copyrights, The New York Times reported."

Schools Tackle Teacher-on-Teacher Bullying

"Most schools have policies that target bullying, but they are usually aimed at students. Now, school districts in Iowa and California are developing rules to prevent teachers from bullying teachers."

Some Campus Networks May Not Talk to iPads

"George Washington University networking officials say that security features on their wireless network may keep iPad users from connecting, and the issue may affect other universities as well. Most campus networks seem to be able to talk to the new tablet computers, though."

Eroding Library Role?

"If libraries do not seriously rethink their role in the lives of researchers, they could come to be seen as resource purchasers more than as research collaborators, according to a report released today by the nonprofit group Ithaka S+R."

Study: More Women Embracing Web Communities

"A new study is showing a sharp reversal in attitudes toward online communities. More young women are now embracing online communities than their male counterparts. By contrast, men are showing some signs of 'networking fatigue,' with fewer men saying that their online communities are as important as their offline equivalents."

Making the Real-Time Web Relevant

"Search has been our gateway to the Web for almost as long as it has existed, and the big search players of the day are gearing up to handle a new challenge: how can the explosion of instant content produced by news organizations, blogs, and social-media users be organized in a relevant fashion, sorting through one of the worst signal-to-noise ratios in modern communication? Oh, and by the way, those results have to be displayed instantly."

Study: We still love our iPhones

"Now more than ever, Americans are falling all over themselves to continue their collective love affair with the Apple iPhone. In J.D. Power's most recent quarterly survey of smartphone owners' satisfaction levels with their handsets, the iPhone again has come out — far and away — at the top of the heap. In every metric but one, owners give the iPhone the highest marks: 5 stars out of 5 in the J.D. Power 'Power Circle Ratings.'"

13 Glaring iPad Shortcomings

"The iPad shows great promise. It's thin and sleek and not like any other gadget out there. It was also more hyped than any new device in recent memory. But is it worth buying?"

Apple: 300,000 iPads Sold on Day One

"Apple said it sold 300,000 iPads in the United States on the first day the highly anticipated tablet device was available. The company also said Monday that iPad users downloaded over one million apps from Apple's App Store and over 250,000 ebooks from its iBookstore during the first day, Saturday."

Effort Will Help Libraries Put Academic Papers in Data 'Cloud'

"Leaders of the movement to build universitywide collections of research papers are hoping that cloud computing—a kind of off-site storage for data—will give a new spark to their efforts."

Want to See the Future of Search? Better Look East

"Naver and Daum, the Google and Bing of South Korea, Show How Search Will Move Beyond Text Queries"