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Founder, Scott RakestrawScott Rakestraw has been delivering technology as a service for nearly 4 decades.  After earning a Bachelor Degree in Communication, specializing in mass media, Scott’s early career was a mix of radio, publishing and television supporting technology for font-line team members and senior corporate executives

Scott has worked for major media outlets including, Mediabase Research, Cox Broadcasting, Paramount Television Stations and CBS Television.  He has also  been a team leader in publishing, serving as the Research Director at Monday Morning Replay and the Senior Technical Support Analyst for Gale Research (now Cengage).

“Working in the media was a great place to learn how the world and the world of business operates- how to work with a team to accomplish a mission.” says Rakestraw.  “I learned many things living in the corporate world but I was always searching for some meaning to the work.”

The search lead Scott directly into to public service roles.  He has served as Telecommunications Manager for The Library Network and as a Senior Technology Project Manager for public libraries. He founded “Save Your Breath.org” in 1998 and to help fine organizations, specifically non-profits implement and deliver technology solutions.

“People get overwhelmed by technology. When you have the right partner, you’ll never have to ‘Sweat the Tech’.”


“SaveYourBreath.org” is a Michigan based consulting firm specializing in Technology Project Management, Solution Design, System Architecture and Staff Development.

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The AI Trust Crisis

A Strategic Opportunity for Libraries Society is at a crossroads. Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping (or going to reshape) virtually every industry. Yet, in the latest poll by You.gov, the public trust in AI is Plummeting like circulation stats during the pandemic closures. This isn’t just another tech wave— it’s a defining moment for libraries …

The ‘Subversives’

  They speak of radical ideas like privacy, literacy and inclusiveness.   They live and work in our community and very often, they are activists and advocates.   Today’s librarians teach seniors to navigate tablets, guide job seekers through career transitions, and nurture creative expression through community arts and STEM programs. In a world drowning …

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  • YouTube Rolls Out Likeness Detection To All Creators Over 18
    on May 18, 2026 at 7:46 pm

    YouTube is launching its likeness detection technology to all eligible creators over 18 to combat the spread of misleading AI-generated content.

  • Digital-First Streamers Up Ad Spend, Prime Video At $52M
    on May 18, 2026 at 4:40 pm

    Legacy TV-owned streaming services including Paramount+; Peacock, Disney+, ESPN and Hulu benefit from those companies' owned TV network ad-promotional inventory.

  • 'Creator Journalism:' Better Label, Shine For News Consumers?
    on May 18, 2026 at 3:53 pm

    "This creator journalism is not a sideshow. It is fast becoming the show," said Deborah Turness, who resigned from her position as CEO of BBC News in 2025. "If we have been wondering for years what would eventually replace the broadcast news mass media model, we are seeing the answer now."

  • Brooke Shields Gets Cozy In Acorn Mystery Series
    on May 18, 2026 at 2:57 pm

    A bestselling mystery author is an amateur sleuth who conducts her own self-styled investigations of murders in the storybook seaside town in which she lives. If this sounds like the premise for the old 1980s and ’90s CBS series “Murder, She Wrote,” then that would be correct.  But it also serves as a description of a new mystery series starring Brooke Shields. Angela Lansbury famously played mystery author Jessica Fletcher on “Murder, She Wrote,” which had an extraordinarily long run on CBS for twelve seasons (1984-96). The new Brooke Shields show -- titled “You’re Killing Me” and premiering Monday on Acorn -- has Shields, 60, playing Allison Chandler, a very successful mystery writer who has written so many novels relying on the same detective character that her sales have plateaued. The character is named Chandler, perhaps as a nod to Raymond Chandler, who wrote detective novels for 19 years starting in 1939 with The Big Sleep. But Raymond Chandler’s hard-boiled novels were not “cozy” mysteries. The term “cozy mystery” has come to describe a genre of murder-mystery TV shows that take place in quaint towns or villages, where murders are incomprehensibly numerous in relation to the population. In a cozy mystery, crime scenes are not depicted graphically and the murders are relatively chaste affairs.  The crime-solvers in the shows range from a local police detective to amateurs such as vicars, mystery writers and, in at least one mystery show, a nun (“Sister Boniface Mysteries”). Cozy mysteries imported from British television are a staple of PBS, and the content on Acorn TV is, for the most part, British as well. “You’re Killing Me” is definitely cozy and decidedly American, although it was filmed in and around Halifax, Nova Scotia. Like “Murder, She Wrote,” which took place in the fictional seaside town of Cabot Cove, “You’re Killing Me” also takes place in a similarly named fictional “cove” named Founders Cove. In the first episode previewed by the TV Blog on Friday, Chandler is receiving an award at a convention of mystery writers that just happens to be taking place in the very town in which she lives. All of a sudden, a man known to everyone in town plummets from a high hotel window and crash-lands on the roof of a parked car. And thus begins the episode’s murder mystery.  “You’re Killing Me” diverges from the “Murder, She Wrote” formula in one important way.  Unlike Jessica Fletcher, Allison Chandler takes on a sidekick -- a young woman who styles herself as a true-crime podcaster (played by Amalia Williamson, above photo, right, with Shields). As Episode One proceeds, the Baby Boomer and the Gen-Z’er clash over everything from cellphones to coffee orders. More to the point, they are each carrying on their own investigations and bumping into each other everywhere they go. Eventually, they make peace, team up, face danger together and solve the murder mystery. The verdict? “You’re Killing Me” is a very nice show that is easy to take -- in a word, cozy.  “You’re Killing Me” starts streaming on Monday, May 18, on Acorn TV.

  • Dua Lipa Sues Samsung For $15M For Copyright Infringement
    on May 17, 2026 at 7:01 pm

    Lipa learned about the alleged infringement in June 2025 and demanded Samsung stop using the image. The complaint claims the company refused.


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