Borders and Lulu.com have teamed up to create Border's Lifestyle, a new service allowing anyone to design and publish their own book and have it distributed through Borders stores, even including your own book tour and in-store readings. Is it, according to Ben Vershbow of if:book, “bringing vanity publishing to a whole new level of […]
I was going to link to a list of the symptoms of severe food poisoning and leave off at that. But after sleeping sixteen hours out of the last twenty-four (I won't get too graphic about how I spent the other eight hours but you can imagine… …I'm feeling a bit better so I decided […]
Gives new meaning to the phrase “cook book“. And pretty much any site's even more fun when viewed with this.
One of the things I'm trying to do while on the road training branch librarians and the general public about the Internet and computers is to go beyond the usual suspects (Google, Wikipedia, Flickr and so on) to share some more obscure sites people might not have heard about but which are really interesting or […]
Word Sandwich is sort of like the old Mastermind game but with words instead of colours. Pick a five letter word and the game tells you if you're either “higher” or “lower” than the hidden word alphabetically starting with the first letter and winnowing it down with each succeeding one.
(via MetaFilter which leads to FongSongs)
Each year for the past ten years, the Edge Foundation has asked leading intellectuals and thinkers, from Brian Eno to Richard Dawkins to Tim O'Reilly for their thoughts on a particular question.The 2008 question is “What have you changed your mind about? Why?” You can also find an archive of previous questions such as…2007 – […]
Lists of Bests is a rather unique site that allows you to not only see various “Best of” lists but also to track your progress working through the lists and compare your progress with others. The usual categories (books, music, movies) are here but there are some unique ones too (travel, people, things to do […]
Google will soon be releasing their own take on a Wikipedia-style of information resource – Google Knols (screenshot). Some of the significant differences will be: named authors (who can choose to receive a portion of ad revenue for the “knol” pages they write) instead of Wikipedia’s anonymous author model. The site will allow multiple “knols” […]
This list is focused mostly on the Internet and technology as things that librarians are better at (rather than librarians successfully utilizing these tools beyond what normal users might do – he says, typing on a blog) but it’s still a lot of food for thought. To be honest, I think it wouldn’t be hard to make a […]
