Medicare to Go Broke by 2019, Trustees Predict. The go-broke date is seven years sooner than what the trustees projected last year, before the prescription drug law. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

Mars Rover Finds More Evidence of Ancient Waters. NASA's Mars rover Opportunity is resting on what was once a salty, rippling body of water, project scientists announced today. By Steve Twomey. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

IT Security at Microsoft. Microsoft has released a great slide deck and Word document discussing what the Microsoft Corporate Security group does to prevent malicious or unauthorized use of digital assets at Microsoft. It is very interesting to see how their asset protection takes place through a formal risk management framework, risk management processes, and [...]

i am a librarian!.  Cynthia Wilson is a photographer and a library school student and is interested in documenting real librarians for her book I am a Librarian. If you don't mind getting your picture taken and answering a few questions, please contact her via iamalibrarian.com.[librarian.net : a library weblog]

Why Weblogs for KM?.  Michael Angeles sees many reasons to use weblogs for KM, and he details those reasons, plus much more, in his recent presentation, “Supporting Enterprise Knowledge Management with Weblogs: A Weblog Services Roadmap”, given at the recent Computers in Libraries conference. According to Michael, the new KM is a bottom-up effort, which [...]

Library Kitties.  American Profile has a heartwarming story on library cats this week. I want a library kitty in my library, but I always worry about three things:1) The kitty running out the front door and disappearing forever (which would be simply horrible).2) It's not fair to leave the kitty alone once the library closes–perhaps [...]

Blog/print synergy: my strategies.  For almost a decade I've used the Web — and most recently my blog — to research, develop, and enhance the articles I write for magazines. When I ran into Dan Gillmor at SXSW we discussed some of my strategies, and Dan asked me to write them up. Seems worth doing, [...]

Zend's New PHP5 Info Center. PHP 5 brings along a host of new features and major improvements like you've grown to expect from past major versions. Answering the need for scalable development architectures in the Enterprise, PHP 5 boasts the new Zend Engine 2, which includes a brand new object model, allowing for the development [...]

New Dr Who Actor Named Eccleston is new Doctor Who Shallow Grave actor Christopher Eccleston has been named as the new Doctor Who to front the cult BBC sci-fi show when it returns next year. Eccleston, who starred alongside Nicole Kidman in the horror movie The Others, will be the ninth TV Time Lord to control [...]

Information Hailstorm. Just a trail of thought I started today… While we may have information at our fingertips, we lack control over them in time.  We used to consume news at twice a day, morning and evening.  Now news consumes us any time of the day, whirling around us like a relentless hailstorm.  The worst [...]