Most people reading this are probably familiar with LibraryThing, a web site that allows you to easily enter and catalogue your books, see the libraries of others (including those with a similar collection to yours) and much more. But LibraryThing is not the only site in this area. Shelfari is the latest addition to the […]
US News names their 25 Best Careers for 2007 and Librarian is right up there – although we get a “C” rating for both “job outlook” and “prestige”. (Physician’s assistant on the other hand…)
Found this via another site. It uses the number of sites linking to your blog to calculate a value for that blog. (I guess my IPO will be a bit longer in the making. LibrarianActivist on the other hand… ) Head Tale My blog is worth $7,339.02.How much is your blog worth? LibrarianActivist.org […]
For the second week in a row, I'm sort of fudging the Friday Fun Link. Last week, I did it by posting one video on LibrarianActivist and a different one on Head Tale. This week, I'm repeating something I already posted here (an entry about year-end lists from a couple weeks ago) over there. So […]
I posted a fitting John Lennon Christmas song over at LibrarianActivist for this week's Friday Fun Link but I think for the first time ever, I'm not going to post the exact same link on this blog. This is the video for a song that I think isn't very well known in North America (correct […]
Posting this discussion on an Internet web site is sort of antithetical to the purpose but anyhow, AskMetafilter recently had a thread about anti-technology “life hacks” – ways that technologically adept people may be rejecting high-tech in favour of other options. The person who posted the question cited the Hipster PDA, basically a stack of […]
Oh, but how I loved the Encyclopedia Brown books as a child. Wikipedia Brown: A Mini-Mystery for the Internet Generation (via MetaFilter)
“The International Children’s Digital Library was initially created by an interdisciplinary research team at the University of Maryland in cooperation with the Internet Archive. Members of the team include computer scientists, librarians, educational technologists, classroom teachers, graphic designers, and graduate students from the University of Maryland’s (UMD) College of Information Studies (CLIS) and the UMD […]
This Magazine’s current issue has a cover story on “40 Ideas We Need Know” which has many prominent thinkers contributing their thoughts on “a big idea whose time has come.” Copyright reform, the Hipster PDA (which I use myself – who knew I was hip?) and “a safe place to pee” is just a small […]
Just in time for the US mid-term elections next week, this site (which unfortunately is best viewed in Internet Explorer) creates a tag cloud of the most-used phrases in every President’s State of the Union address going back to 1776. Phrases are shown in terms of popularity, frequency and trends. Use the slider at the […]
