I'd seen this before but a friend sending it to me last week inspired me to get it up on the blog. It's a Flash video making some conspiracy theorist claims about Facebook – the people who run it having CIA ties, the abuse of its data-mining abilities and so on.I'm not sure what to […]
One of my favourite things about the stats package that comes with this blog is seeing who is linking to me (and therefore where my hits are coming from. For example, I got a ton of hits for my “12 Types of Library School Students” entry (three times as many as anything I've written in […]
WebSite Grade For https://headtale.com : 69/100 (overall) A website grade of 69 for https://headtale.com means that of the thousands of websites that have previously been submitted to the tool, our algorithm has calculated that this site scores higher than 69% of them in terms of its marketing effectiveness. The algorithm uses a proprietary blend of […]
I've addressed this before but my readership has grown quite a bit since the last time I talked about it so I'll give some background on the FFL's again. My “Friday Fun Links” started as a way to provide regular content when I set up a listserv for the Writers Guild of Alberta. When I […]
Is there any job you start where you don't get overwhelmed with information the first day? When I started working at a gas station at 14 or 15, they handed me a list of 100 SKU codes for every product we sold and told me to have it memorized by the weekend. I also had […]
I haven't looked at my traffic stats for awhile so imagine my surprise when I log in today and see that I'm really close to my bandwidth limit. I had an issue with this shutting down the blog back in November and December but had my bandwidth limit doubled, figuring that would suffice until I […]
I've put a bookmarking widget up on the top left of this site that will allow you to submit my site (and any individual page or range of pages – ie. all pages within a category or a keyword) to any of thirty or so social bookmarking sites. This includes all the major services – […]
I know that everybody who reads this blog doesn't necessarily read all of the same blogs that I do. So every once in awhile, I like to highlight some of the great entries I've found elsewhere. For example, Meshell had a great post on what exactly a blog is, why people do it and a […]
Well, after nearly six months straight of daily posts (a quick run through the sidebar calendar shows Aug 30/06 was the last day I missed!), the streak ended yesterday. (There was also a missing date on December 24 but I know I posted that day – not sure why it doesn't show up on the […]
“Blogs, they're what old people do now…E-mail is the same way. The youngest generation of Internet users don't bother with blogs or e-mail, preferring social sites such as MySpace and instant messaging to stay in touch.” – Librarian.net's Jessamyn West, profiled in the “Everybody's Interesting” column of Valley News…although to be fair, the article does […]
