(via MetaFilter which leads to FongSongs)
One of my favourite professors from FIMS, Sam Trosow, has co-authored a new book entitled “Canadian Copyright: A Citizen's Guide“. The page I link to is the home page of the other co-author and has a few excerpts. This site has a brief summary and links to where you can buy the book.
I've had a few different jobs in my life. One of my favourites was my college summer job where I visited various small towns around Saskatchewan as a traveling cable TV salesman. (Yes, I know a “vacuum cleaner salesman” joke just popped in your head. Don't bother – I've heard it.)But this job was different […]
I thought I wrote about Wikia when I first heard about it but couldn't find anything via my blog search engine. So I guess this will be my first mention of it here. Here's a link to the new search engine……and here's some more background information.
Radiohead are usually extremely innovative with any multimedia products they put out – from videos to concert films to web sites (although the current version is quite traditional compared to what they've done in the past.) That makes this hour long video they recently released of them performing all the songs from “In Rainbows” in […]
Kathleen DeLong, a librarian at the University of Alberta, is conducting a survey on the engagement of new library professionals in leadership roles and activities as part of her LIS PhD. If you're a recently hired librarian (within the last five years), why not take a few minutes to help her out by filling out […]
I was looking through my MetaFilter profile – seeing which posts and comments of others that I've favourited and who has favourited posts and comments of mine. This led me to realise that someone appears to have paid the $5 lifetime membership to create a MetaFilter account simply to have a profile with a single […]
Each year for the past ten years, the Edge Foundation has asked leading intellectuals and thinkers, from Brian Eno to Richard Dawkins to Tim O'Reilly for their thoughts on a particular question.The 2008 question is “What have you changed your mind about? Why?” You can also find an archive of previous questions such as…2007 – […]
Download Squad ranks them as follows: 1. Acrobat Reader2. iTunes3. RealPlayer4. Internet Explorer 5. Microsoft OutlookYet how many libraries rely on two or three of these programs, both for their PAC's and for their staff computers?
