Yet another patented Reddit book recommendation thread.
An interesting infographic from the National Post. Cancer is the leading cause of death at 30% while heart disease comes in second at 21%. (I don’t see that common library killer, “death by papercut” listed anywhere!)
No one in the convention hall at the Queensbury Convention Centre was more surprised than Ryan Meili. It was June 6, 2009 and the Saskatchewan NDP were choosing their new leader from among four candidates. After Deb Higgins had been dropped off after the first ballot and Yens Pedersen had conceded, Meili knew there was […]
I wasn’t sure which would be a fitting song to post for Saskatchewan’s election day but I saw the lyric I quoted in the post title posted to Twitter by an NDP staff member this morning… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPab_W2r5lA
An annual tradition on this blog is the posting of this Hawksley Workman song which perfectly captures the joy that comes with the first snowfall of the year. I also realised this also makes an informal weather history – and not sure if I’m always consistent on this but I think I tend to record […]
On Thursday, Pace got his first stripe in karate moving from a white belt to…a white belt with a single red stripe on it. On Friday, he passed his swimming lessons and will now move from “Salamander” to “Sunfish”… And of course way back on Monday, Pace was easily the cutest tiger on the block… […]
There are a lot of recommendation engines out there – Amazon, GoodReads, LibraryThing, Novelist, etc. etc. etc. – but BookLamp is one of the most unique I’ve found in that it tries to use pure mathematical algorithms to choose the books it recommends for users, similar to what Pandora does for music. Their biggest fault […]
Three years ago, my dad underwent treatment for prostate cancer. I also have an uncle (my dad’s brother), one of my dad’s best friends and a few others who I know who’ve underwent treatment for this disease. So this year, I’ve decided to join the Movember cause to raise funds to help find a cure […]
And the answer (at least according to this infographic) is yes. Bonus: here’s a wise prognosticator on the same subject back in 2006… (Okay, it’s me but I’m pretty proud of this one – not just that it was my highest mark of library school but also because I really kicked ass on my presentation […]
A great article giving a few examples of how libraries have used crowdsourcing to manage large projects that are beyond the scope of their regular workforce and/or which take advantage of the “Wisdom of Crowds”.
