Entries from November 2007

November 1, 2007

Ghosts in P-Ville??

I couldn’t let Halloween go by without throwing a little creepiness into things — and yes, you guessed it, it involves haunted libraries! Apparently the Phoenixville Public Library is haunted by a woman in the attic of the 1902 Carnegie designed building. “She’s wearing a bustle dress, a high hat, and having a [...]

November 1, 2007

A New Way to Google: TouchGraph

You know who you are – the kid who sat in the back row and doodled endlessly because the drone of Ms. Frizzle’s history lesson promised nothing but boredom and maybe a few chuckles on the new ‘do. Reading lists or paragraphs didn’t quite cut it; listening to a lecture just went in one [...]

November 1, 2007

A New Way to Read: BookGlutton

Check out this new e-book reader.  It’s in beta, but you can sign up to try it out.  Looks like it combines the social web with traditional e-reading at a level not yet seen.  Basically, you can read a book while chatting with someone else who’s reading the same book at [...]