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A special thanks to Don Watkins (@Don_Watkins) for passing this video along. It echos something I've mentioned many times before. Libraries and librarians are the original information managers and, more importantly, the Internet didn't/doesn't make them obsolete. Rather the Internet has enhanced the library in being able to provide the comprehensive, effective and correlated information.

The cost of cyber-squating. To purchase those DNS names to protect your brand things can get very costly:

• The High Price of Suffix Extortion / (via NPR) A New Internet Domain: Extortion Or Free Speech? / http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2015/04/07/397886748/a-new-internet-domain-extortion-or-free-speech

No, not that Pony Express, the eCommerce one:

Bypassing the certificate: (via ZDNet) Mozilla pushes out fix for Firefox opportunistic encryption flaw / http://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-pushes-out-fix-for-firefox-opportunistic-encryption-flaw/

Now that's mobile computing: (BBC) Google announces budget-priced Chromebits and Chromebooks / http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32143923