Local Farmingdale News - At Your Fingertips

Hi All,

Farmingdale is known for many things: Grumman, Republic Aviation, the Farmingdale Public Library, Farmingdale State College (remember the Aggie school?), Mile-a-Minute Murphy, Bethpage State Park and much more. 

Which, of course, means there is plenty of history and news relating to Farmingdale.

For a timely, unbiased, current, interesting and well written site that covers the ins-and-outs of Farmingdale...check out the Farmingdale Patch.  Click on this link to learn a bit more about Patch.com - basically its the Patch FAQ. 

The Farmingdale Patch has a wide variety of sections relating to Farmingdale: including a section on Arts and Entertainment,  Business, Community Corner, Health and Fitness, Home/Garden, Jobs, Kids/Family, Politics/Government, Schools, Sports and Weather.

As you can see and read; the Farmingdale Patch has Farmingdale very well covered.

Enjoy the site and the news!

Regards,
Stu

Reading and Book Trends 2018

Hi All,

So originally I was going to write a blog entry about 'Shopping Trends in 2017' - but then I looked around and realized everybody and their sister would be blogging about this type of topic.

I needed to write about something different - and then I typed in 'trends 2017' in Google.  And low and behold the idea struck me - write about 'Book trends in 2017'.

Click on the various links below to learn about book trends.

Enjoy the lists and the trends for 2018!

Regards,
Stu

Izzard Ink Publishing - 5 Publishing Trends For 2018 

Publishers Weekly - Bologna 2017, Agents Talk Children's and YA Trends 

Pressbooks.com - 2017 Publishing Trends For Authors 

The Guardian - Up Lit: The New Book Trend With Kindness at Its Core 

BookBusinessmag.com - Top Trends: What Publishers Should Expect in 2017?

Medium.com - Fiction Trends to Watch For in 2017 (and Beyond) 

Children'sBookReview.com - Trends in Children's Books and Young Adult Novels 2017

CNNMedia.com - Real Books Are Back, E-book Sales Plunge 20% 

GoodReads -  2018 Book Lists

Publishers Weekly - New and Anticipated Books 2018

Unsplash! (Free photos)

Hi All,

Supershort blog entry today!

It's simple....if yu need beautiful, free photos for your computer or for your document(s), visit Unsplash. It is a website that users can find, beautiful, free photos.

Topics are arranged at the top of the page and include Business, Computer, Nature, Love, House, Landscape, Cat and Happy. 

So....what is Unsplash?  Great question - basically it is a website where over 300,000 free high-resolution photos are available to you for free.  Photos come from a  community of photographers.

Click on this link for more collections of photos from Unsplash! Warning - there are lots and lots of photos here to use in documents AND to just look at for their sheer beauty!!!!

Click on this link for Unsplash's FAQ page to learn more about the site. 

Enjoy the site!

Regards,
Stu

Visual Capitalist

Hi All,

Looking for visual content (read: information and data) on business and financial topics?  Look no further than a new website called the Visual Capitalist.

As the Visual Capitalist says on their website, "Visual Capitalist is a new way to discover business opportunities and learn about investment trends.  The site is populated with exclusive infographics from our own design studio and curated visual content from around the web. Visual Capitalist was founded in 2011 under the belief that art, data, and storytelling can be combined in a manner that makes complex issues and processes more digestible. Today, we reach millions of people each year with our unique content."

The site has links to Markets, Technology, Energy, Mining, Green, Money, Politics and Miscellaneous topics. 

Charts and tables on the website are colorful, interactive, timely and very easy to understand.  For a perfect example of a useful chart click on this link entitled Visual Capitalist's 15 Top Infographics For 2015.

The list of the infographics includes a mix of infographics, data visualizations, and charts from 2015.

Enjoy the site!

Regards,
Stu

Popurls...Genuine Aggregator

Hi All,

With today's access to information folks can get news 24x7x365 via tv, tablets, smartphones, internet, cable tv and other methods...

If you like news headlines, click on this link - which goes to Popurls - a genuine aggregator.  What the heck is it you ask?  Glad you asked!

Popurls is a news aggregator.  Basically it scours the web - and sites like Reddit, The Verge, Digg, Huffington Post, New York Times, Buzz Feed, Slashdot, Boingboing and many others.  It then presents the headlines - of which you, the reader, can click on.  Clicking on the various headlines takes you to the original text of the article on whichever site it is located.

News comes in various flavors: Tech, Geek, Design, Business, Entertainment, Sports and Politics. 

For more information about Popurls, click on this link; which comes from the sites' 'About Us' section.

Enjoy the news in this interesting format!

Regards,
Stu

Reading...

Hi All,

I've come across two separate websites that are related to reading in different ways. 

The first article is from the NewYorker.  Entitled 'Being a Better Online Reader' the article discusses how to be a better reader.  Sections of the article discuss the physicality of the book vs the ephemerality of the screen, online distractions when you read, reading comprehension and how it differs when you read a book vs reading online with a monitor/screen/tablet and ways to increase reading comprehension when reading on a monitor/screen/tablet.

The second entry came via an article from the New York Times.  Entitled, 'With the Blessing of Bill Gates, an Unlikely Summertime Best Seller', the article discusses a business book that Bill Gates (one of Microsoft's founder) highly recommended.  The book in question is 'John Brooks'', 'Business Adventures'.- which was published back in 1969 - and has been out of print since then.  Because of Bill Gates' recommendation, the book is coming back in print and is a bestseller on Amazon.com.

The article discusses Bill Gates book blog - entitled GatesNotes - which is where he recommended the book.   Click here for the blog entry where Bill Gates recommends the book - along with five others that he recommends for summer reading.  Click on this link to read Bill Gates' full review of Business Adventures by John Brooks.

So, the real appeal here is that the reader can read book reviews by Bill Gates - of course from the books that he's read.  And what an eclectic reader he is!  Even a cursory look at the titles of the books he's read is breaktaking in its variety and scope!

Title/subject

Business Adventures/Business
Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism/History
Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History/Environment
Reinventing American Health Care/Health Care
Why Does College Cost So Much?/Higher Education
Most Powerful Idea in the World/history, steam engines, technology
World Until Yesterday/anthropology
Poor Numbers/economics,statistics

Enjoy the links - and if you click on any of the titles listed above, you'll go to that particular book review GatesNotes. 

Finally, click on this link to go to the online library card catalog to see if any of these books are available at the Farmingdale Public Library.

Enjoy!


Regards,
Stu