“In 1994, over 70 percent of total fiction sales were accounted for by a mere five authors.” Just in time for the biggest book release in the history of the universe, a contrarian view from the Washington Post. It’s out tonight at midnight but rumours of leaks have been happening for the past few days. […]
I don't talk a lot about my work on this blog but I thought I'd discuss one of my favourite activities that I do – approving the purchase of books that patrons have requested – to celebrate my three month anniversary in this position which is tomorrow. In my library system, this is known as […]
In keeping with the topic of the day over at my other most favourite site on the Internet, LibrarianActivist, here’s a report on internet filtering from the National Coalition Against Censorship which is admittedly, a bit dated, having been produced in 2001. But it gives an excellent overview of many of the issues and problems […]
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 […]
This is one of the craziest things I've ever seen online. Digg, the community web site where users can upload stories and then other users vote them up or down with the most popular stories forming the highly trafficked home page, had a major revolt yesterday.It began when an article that contained the encryption key […]
I'm not a huge fan of Internet petitions for the most part but this one makes sense, not least of all because it is trying to mobilize Internet users to save something specific to the online world, namely Internet radio. The Myths & Facts section of the SaveInternetRadio.org web site is enlightening as is this […]
When I uploaded my FTRW interview to YouSendIt a couple days ago, I didn't realise they now required you to set-up an account before downloading files (boo!) Quinn has very generously agreed to host the file for those of who who may have found this a barrier for whatever reason. To save the file to […]
Does anybody know a place to store a 30MB file for easy sharing online? I'd store it on my site – I have the space but know the file transfers would eat up my monthly bandwidth in no time. I taped the FTRW interview yesterday off the air (memories of taping “American Top 40 with […]
Just a reminder – the replay of my appearance on the “Book Chick” radio show on local community radio talking about Freedom to Read Week last week will be replayed tomorrow at noon, Saskatchewan time (11am Alberta time, 1pm Ontario time.) You can listen in at: www.cjtr.ca If you don't catch that, I'm hoping to […]
Here's something that was posted to the Canadian Library Association mailing list this week that's a fitting way to end my week of FTRW posts: the results of the CLA’s Advisory Committee on Intellectual Freedom’s web survey titled “Tracking Challenged Resources in Canadian Libraries” (PDF) for the year 2006. This report doesn’t include every instance […]
