“YouTomb is a research project by MIT Free Culture that tracks videos taken down from YouTube for alleged copyright violation.” (via Reddit)
After waking to ominous grey skies, we made the call to keep the party at Nickle Lake rather than moving into Grandpa and Grandma Thompson's house in Weyburn for Pace's birthday. We were rewarded with a beautiful, sunny (if a bit windy) day with a great turnout for the party, delicious burgers and hot dogs […]
I'm sort of burnt out after a full day of inventory & weeding on Friday (more than a full day – we were at it from 6am until 9pm or so) and then a full day today spent at Nickel Lake, just outside Weyburn, getting ready for the big birthday party coming up on Monday. […]
“For all the creativity and innovation that goes into making (some) Hollywood films, there are also a lot of ideas that get recycled time and time again. I’m not referring to stock characters or the sequalitis that hits multiplexes every summer. I’m talking about the basic building blocks of storytelling that are ingrained in the […]
As I may have mentioned before, the younger me would probably punch the older me in the mush if he could see how much management theory I'd be reading (and enjoying ) at this point in my life. To me, one of the most interesting aspects of management theory today is the interplay between different […]
Whenever one of those “100 Books You Must Read” lists come out, I'm always a bit ashamed that, even as a former English major, I find that I've barely read any of them.But now, finally, a list where I have read, well, about the same proportion as any other “Top 100 Books” list. 100 Must-Read […]
I drove nearly four hours round-trip today to do a five minute presentation at a tea in honour of a branch assistant who's been with our region for fifteen years……which makes me think that rural librarianship has some unique requirements you won't find in any other type of library……which makes me think that rural librarianship […]
Quite often, I'll do a post on a topic then come across further information at a later date that would expand and improve the post. Usually, I just go back and add the information to the original post, even though I know the odds of anyone seeing it are slim. But in this case, as […]
Jessamyn passed along word that she's got both the speaking notes and the slides from her presentation at the recent Sask Library Association-Manitoba Library Association joint conference online (good thing she has the speaking notes up – she uses that minimalistic “one photo, one caption” style for her presentations so you might not get much […]
