Sunday, March 8, 2009

Twitter and Kindle...new technologies are not for everyone, but they will be.

Of all the blogs I’ve been reading over the past week there are two topics which keep popping up everywhere: The Kindle Book Reader and Twitter. While I’ve never used either of these two very different these I have read about them and I’ve heard numerous people talking, and complaining, about Twitter. The Kindle is popular among people in their late 40s and while I can see how it is revolutionizing reading but I still prefer an actual book in my hand to reading one on any type of screen. E-Books are the wave of the future, but working in a library and using IUCAT every day I can safely say that our population at IUPUC also prefers to hold the physical book in their hands as well. Everything has its place. Twitter sounds a little overwhelming, my classmates have had to use it for another class and apparently hate it. It too, sounds like a great tool and librarians are raving over it. There’s got to be something to it and I’m sure in a few short months none of us will be able to live without Twitter. We will think to ourselves, “How did I get along before Twitter?” Just like we all do now in trying to remember a time before Google.

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