Year: 2009

A Couple Interesting Inaugural Address Links

The Atlantic Monthly takes a look at the techniques and deeper meaning of Barack Obama's Inaugural Address.The Toronto Star presents word clouds of previous Inaugural Addresses including Obama's. 

TechCrunch "CrunchPad"

Technology site TechCrunch is expanding beyond being one of the best sources for news about Web 2.0-type companies and have been driving development of an inexpensive, touchpad computer

Music Monday – "It's been a long time comin'/But I know, a change is gonna come."

Is there any other song to choose today, on Martin Luther King Day in the US and with the inauguration of Barack Obama happening tomorrow?  (I don't know

Why Google Employees Quit

This post on TechCrunch is showing up on most of the major link aggregators I visit (MetaFilter, Reddit, etc.) so I thought I'd post it here.  Although libraries

Wordie – Flickr But Without the Photos (aka "A Site For Word Lovers")

Wordie is a site that “lets you make lists of words and phrases. Words you love, words you hate, words on a given topic, whatever. Lists are visible

Friday Late Link – Visualization of English Words (Friday Jan 16, 2009)

A visualization of all nouns in the English language arranged by semantic meaning.(via MetaFilter)

"As usual, when it was mentioned that 75% (or whatever) of those working in libraries were women, you could hear the crickets chirping." (or "The Story of How Jason Became A Librarian")

Steven Chabot, my colleague (and roomie) from the Canadian Library Human Resources Summit is looking into some of the reasons why men enter the profession.  Anything related to

YouTube Now Muting Videos Which Use Unauthorized Copyrighted Music

About a year ago, I got a “Claim of Copyright” notice for the montage video I made of photos around Pace's birth using the song “Tippy-Toeing” by Loretta

Top Tech Trends 2009

About once a month, give or take, RPL hosts an Education Institute presentation that staff members can attend.  Today's session is Micheal Stephens giving his annual “Top Tech

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