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Friday Fun Link – Best Social Media Management & Analysis Tools

I don’t do a huge amount of this on my own blog/FB/Twitter/etc. but still useful to know what tools are out there for managing all aspects of your online presence – tracking mentions, controlling content, your social media reach and so on.

¶ Posted 17 November 2017 § FridayFunLink § Meme § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, facebook, twitter, youtube

“Jason Hammond” In The News

I admit it – I have a “Google Alert” set-up for my own name. Sadly, I’ve never seen anything come up about myself in any news reports. But every few days I get a notification about somebody somewhere in the world named “Jason Hammond” doing one interesting thing or another. Here’s a couple other recent […]

¶ Posted 15 November 2017 § News ‡ Comments (0) °

YouTube Policy Changes – Censorship or Just Good Business Practice?

I think I’ve mentioned before that one of my highest marks in library school was, ironically, for the one class I took within our faculty but outside our department – a “History of Information” course that was offered through the journalism school. My final presentation in that class was about the future of online video […]

¶ Posted 10 October 2017 § Censorship § LibrarySchool § MemoryLane § News § PopCulture § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, history, language, television, youtube

Redditor Tracks White House Chief of Staff Face Palm To the Exact Moment Trump Goes Off Script

Any shot of a person rubbing their forehead could be taken out of context. But when it’s a photo of the White House Chief of Staff face palming with his watch clearly visible (ENHANCE!) while the President is going off script threatening to annihilate North Korea, you know the Internet’s going to be on the […]

¶ Posted 19 September 2017 § Humour § Meme § News § Politics § Technology § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, language, unitedstates

Friday Fun Link – “Google.com” Was Registered Twenty Years Ago Today

At the time, I never thought I’d leave AltaVista, which is retroactively recognized as the “Google of Its Time“.

¶ Posted 15 September 2017 § FridayFunLink § MemoryLane § News § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, google, history

Obligatory iPhone X Post

I feel an obligation to post this… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4wEI5zhHB0

¶ Posted 13 September 2017 § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, economics, history

Westeros’ New Power Couple?

¶ Posted 29 August 2017 § Humour § Library § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: television

Friday Fun Link – r/solareclipse

We were out at the lake all weekend and just got back today (Tuesday) but I’m going to do a few quick backdated posts for the past few days starting with the Friday Fun Link I missed – Reddit’s r/solareclipse sub-Reddit which actually works really well as a delayed link because it now has lots of […]

¶ Posted 18 August 2017 § FridayFunLink § Meme § Technology § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, science

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – iPhone’s 10th Anniversary

Today is the tenth anniversary of the iPhone being released, perhaps the single most revolutionary product of my lifetime. There has been numerous models of iPhone in that time of course, each offering incremental and often transformative improvements. I got my first iPhone 3GS around 2009 – I was too cheap to buy one even […]