E-Books Tipping Point for Library E-Books The American Library Association (ALA) has just released its 2011 Public Library Funding and Technology Access Survey, and among its findings, 67% of public libraries in the U.S. now offer free access to e-books for their patrons. That's up 30% since 2007. Of course, access to e-books ranges greatly from state-to-state: 100% of Maryland and Utah… Audrey Watters View comments
Sponsors Check Out the Companies That Make ReadWriteWeb Possible Our readers know ReadWriteWeb as the blog that's ahead of the technology curve. Our sponsors know us as that, too. Once a week we introduce our sponsors to our readers and let them know a little more about who they are and what they do. You can say thanks to the companies that make ReadWriteWeb happen by tweeting them (see the link below each… imported_1 View comments
Cartoons Cartoon: May the Source Be With You The other day, I was at a local coffee shop trying to troubleshoot a page on my cartoon site. I didn't have my trusty laptop with me, but I no worries — I had my iPad, which is practically the same thing, right? Until I opened the page in Safari, and had a look at the source. Or, rather, didn't. It turns out Safari in iOS – you're… Play Rob Cottingham View comments
E-Learning How Consumer Technology & User-Generated Content Are Changing Ed-Tech I'm at the ISTE 2011 conference this week, which purports to be the premier ed-tech conference in the world. I'll be reporting on the latest-and-greatest in education technology - in new technology innovations as well as how these tools are being incorporated by teachers and students into the classroom. The big names in the ed-tech industry… Audrey Watters View comments
How-To 5 Free E-Books and Tutorials on SQL We've covered several programming languages now, but we haven't really gotten into database development yet. Although NoSQL is hot, SQL (structured query language) isn't going away. Different databases (such as Oracle, MySQL and PostgreSQL) use different variations, but the idea is to have a unified system so that a developer can move from… Hack Klint Finley View comments