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Monthly Archives July 2012

Too Many Tab Tuesday – Library Edition

If You Could Redesign Any Aspect of Your Library, What Would You Do?  (Reddit) Annoying Things Library Patrons Do/Say (LibraryThing) One Hundred Zeroes – ongoing updated list of Amazon bestseller e-books available for free Book Burning Party To Save a Library – this story and video made the rounds of the biblioblog/FB/Twitter-sphere awhile ago saying […]

Posted 17 July 2012 § Library ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – “Shining up above me the jet fuel/Down the road/Lots above with the money/And the silence sing.”

One of my all-time favourite Britpop bands, Blur, has a new single out:

Posted 16 July 2012 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Facebook Didn’t Kill Digg, Reddit Did

After being one of the hottest web properties and spurning a $200 MILLION dollar offer from Google, user-driven voting site Digg was sold last week for a measley $500,000.  Some commentators thought it was competition from user-driven sharing sites like Facebook and Twitter that put the nail in Digg’s coffin but ignored the rise of […]

Posted 15 July 2012 § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Saturday Snap – Pace’s First Rider Game (and An Attempt At Some Balanced Thoughts on the New Stadium)

As required by Saskatchewan law, I’m a lifelong fan of the Roughriders. But I’m not a diehard ultra-fan. I get to a game every once in awhile (less since we had Pace) but don’t own season tickets.  I have a t-shirt and ball cap with the Rider logo (and now a jersey) but don’t get kitted […]

Posted 14 July 2012 § Family § Politics § PopCulture ‡ Comments (4) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – Good News Round-Up!

It’s been a pretty good news week for me. Week started with news that some long-awaited Assistive Technology I’d ordered at work had finally arrived. At the risk of being a “vague-booker” (er, “vague-blogger”) by hinting at things I can’t actually openly discuss right now, later in the week, I got a couple awesome pieces of […]

Posted 13 July 2012 § FridayFunLink § Library § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

The Generosity Strategy

WordPress’s founder talks about the approach of giving away everything to do with your product in the hopes that you gain market share as well as making profit by sharing premium versions of your products.  Other than that upselling part, kinda sounds like libraries, doesn’t it?

Posted 12 July 2012 § Library § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Going Viral

Normally I’m pretty happy with my quiet little “soap blog”, the few regular visitors I have each day plus the spike I see when I write about something timely or controversial or whatever. I don’t usually do a lot to promote my site more widely – I no longer syndicate to Facebook or tweet every […]

Posted 11 July 2012 § Politics § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) °

An Open Letter to Premier Brad Wall: On Film, Family & The Real Meaning of Rock & Roll

Hello Mr. Wall, We didn’t get formally introduced but we met briefly this past weekend at Cypress Hills Provincial Park. It was my son who was on the otherwise empty outdoor ampitheatre stage, singing and dancing, when you walked by. As you passed, you joked about enjoying the free show then carried on your walk […]

Posted 10 July 2012 § Family § Politics § Video § Wisdom ‡ Comments (6) ° Tagged: , , ,

Music Monday – “Heading down to the land of the pines/I’m strumming my way into North Caroline”

Back from an excellent week of camping in Cypress Hills so back to the grind in all manner of ways including here on the blog.  A quick and easy update with one of my most played songs during the trip (which I think I’ve posted before but it’s worth posting again)…  

Posted 09 July 2012 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “Can you track the deer/Can you dig the well/Couldn’t quite hear your answer/Couldn’t quite hear your answer/Think I see a rip in the social fabric/Brother, can you spare some ammo?”

Going camping so may be out of radio contact for the next few days.  (Also hoping to get some new drywall and paint on this blog via a contractor while I’m away.) In the meantime, some post-apocalyptic blues…

Posted 02 July 2012 § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: