The first U.S. Federal copyright law was passed in 1790, and it granted ownership rights to creators of books, maps, and charts for a specified amount of time.  Copyright law has changed over time, and can be very confusing, but the purpose is always the…

I have a joke for you: The past, present, and future walk into a bar… Want to know the punch line?  🙂  Continue reading.  In this edition of TechToolThursday, I’m going to introduce you to the Smithsonian Channel app for iOS and Android devices.  We’ll…

Twitter, Google+, Facebook, Pinterest, blogs, wikis, and the list goes on and on.  In a previous post, I talked about how easy it is in our digital world to get totally overloaded and overwhelmed with the constant barrage of information coming at us from all directions.  Especially those…