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Daily Archives Friday, April 2007

2005 Canadian Book Publishing Statistics

The book publishing industry recorded total revenues of just over $2.4 billion in 2005, up only 1.6% from 2004. This was in sharp contrast to the 19% growth rate that occurred from 2000 to 2004. Despite the lackluster performance nationally, total revenue gains were strong in the West with British Columbia (+19.9%), Saskatchewan (+9.1%) and Alberta (+8.7%) outpacing the national average. In contrast, publishers […]

Posted 06 April 2007 § Main Page § PopCulture ‡ Comments (4) ° Tagged:

Security Hole in Facebook?

I've had this happen a couple times in the past few weeks so thought I'd mention it.  If you add someone on Facebook who has the “Auto Reply” function on their e-mail program enabled, the “Jason Hammond has added you” message gets sent back and flows right through Facebook to your e-mail in-box thus revealing […]

Posted 06 April 2007 § Internet § LibrarySchool § Main Page ‡ Comments (2) °

Friday Fun Link – "Don't Mind Me, I'm Dead" – How The Public Library Became Heartbreak Hotel (April 6, 2007)

I've addressed this before but my readership has grown quite a bit since the last time I talked about it so I'll give some background on the FFL's again.  My “Friday Fun Links” started as a way to provide regular content when I set up a listserv for the Writers Guild of Alberta.  When I […]

Posted 06 April 2007 § Blog § FridayFunLink § Main Page § Politics ‡ Comments (0) °

FIMS MLIS Placement Surveys (2003-2005)

Well, my first week of work is over (nice to start on a week with a stat holiday!) and as I dig into my bag of bookmarks for something relevant to post on a day where I'm burned out after a day that started early, included a lot of miles on the road, finished with […]

Posted 06 April 2007 § LibrarySchool § Main Page § Work ‡ Comments (0) °