Libraries Expand Digital Content

In an effort to attract readers, libraries have increased the amount of digital content they offer including books, music, and movies that can be downloaded by patrons to a computer or mobile device for free.To access the program users need a library card, access to the Internet and some downloadable software such as Adobe Digital Edition, the Mobipocket Reader or the OverDrive Media Console.

McCain Camp Employs Comment Spam

At what point does campaigning become propaganda? Immediately? When does shrewd and savvy cross the line to become just plain yick? Senator John McCain's campaign squad doesn't seem all that concerned about these questions; blog comment spam these days is just part of the political landscape. If the landscape consists of AstroTurf, anyway.

Gmail, Google Apps Issues Resolved

A game of word association would have to go on for quite some time before most people would put "Google Apps" and "Gmail" together with "outage."  The two services recently took a partial tumble, though, and the experience has left some of the affected users less than happy.

Facebook Sees Significant Growth In Japan

The Japanese language version of Facebook had more than triple the amount of visitors to its site in the past year according to comScore World Metrix.The leading social network in Japan was Mixi.jp with 12.7 million visitors in June. Facebook, which recently launched a Japanese language version of the site, has seen significant growth in the past year, gaining 213 percent to 538,000 visitors. MySpace…

LaTimes.com Credits SEO As Traffic Winner

Tech-pundits have droned on for years that print is dead. It sure started to seem that way this year, with report after report of lost newspaper revenue and subscribers. Cooler heads all along have countered the impending doom theory with the idea that nothing worth anything dies—it only evolves. The LA Times puts itself up an example of the latter idea.