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In this edition of Thinking Out Loud, George and Joan talk about bosses. While it’s easy to gripe about bosses, George and Joan take a deeper look and explore the idea that the problem isn’t always just the boss – it can also be the employee and/or the workplace. Are you [...]
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In this edition of Thinking Out Loud, George and Joan suggest that librarians devote less of their energy to formatting the “right” answers when writing requests for proposals (or requests for information) and more care and thought to asking the right questions.
During the podcast, they mention a Wayne County Library [...]
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The great grudge match of which they speak is the upcoming showdown between IBM’s supercomputer Watson and two former Jeopardy champions. In their podcast former two-time Jeopardy champion George and Jeopardy fan Joan ponder whether a computer, even a really, really fast one, can think in real time as nimbly as [...]
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In the spirit of the season, and giving credit to Francis Pharcellus and the New York Sun, George and Joan offer this holiday podcast and answer the question, “Is there a future for libraries?” with a resounding “YES!”
Happy holidays from Infopeople!
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In this latest edition of Thinking Out Loud, George and Joan riff on a topic that came to George’s mind after reading an article in the New Yorker entitled The Next Level, by James Surowiecki (October 18, 2010). The article looks at what happened to Blockbuster and how they [...]
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