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Sports Illustrated and Popular Science have demoed their vision of the magazine of tomorrow

A somewhat angry commentary in the San Bernadino County Sun talking about a local community in that part of California shutting down its libraries for the remainder of the fiscal year.

Radio New Zealand International reports about a new "new media" venture in online television launched in New Caledonia, a quite autonomous overseas territory of France in the Pacific

Read all about it at the Irish Independent

The Federal Communications Commission is seeking data about broadband deployment at libraries and in other community hubs. (PDF)

Scott Douglas asks: What Christmas card do you get your librarian friends this year? How about a library-themed Christmas card?

CNN published a story on the future of libraries. Nothing really new that we haven't read before. But not necessarily complimentary either.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/09/04/future.library.technology/index.html

The National Hurricane Center in Florida has an experimental podcast feed set up. In the past they have sent down that feed the audio of press briefings. The link to plug into your podcatcher is: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/audio/index_podcast.xml

The briefings, if made, are safe for patron consumption. The feed from NHC has been added to the aggregator at LISFeeds.

BusinessWeek tears apart some consumer gadgets to look at that difference