I’ve got a well-documented love/hate relationship with Wikipedia. As much as I love the idea of Wikipedia, I’m frequently disappointed by how it runs in practice. The non-notability issues. The deletionists. The scammers (including, recently, a Wikipedia trustee who was discovered accepting payment via his consulting company for ensuring placement of certain articles on the […]
What is the best non-fiction book you’ve ever read? Good fiction about mental illness? Suggestions to get a male non-reader more into books? Reddit’s Favourite Books: The Master List – a Redditor goes through a bunch of popular book recommendation threads and uses the up votes of the books in each to compile a master […]
I usually do a “Music Monday” post at the start of the week. But since the SK NDP Leadership has just started, I thought it might be fun (and alliterative!) to give over a few of my Mondays in the coming weeks and months to some thoughts on the race, Ryan Meili’s campaign and other […]
Now I Know (site currently down making this a bad day to post this but whatever) is an enjoyable little e-newsletter that comes out every couple of days with all kinds of interesting facts about all kinds of things. Here’s the most recent one… You’re sitting at your desk, standing in the kitchen, watching TV, […]
During the last Sask NDP leadership race, I spent a lot of time analysing the social media aspects of each candidate’s campaign. As we get another leadership race underway, the social media landscape has changed and grown, both in terms of services available and also the reach of sites like Facebook, Twitter and numerous other […]
Lots to think about in this interview and presentation… Some choice quotes… We don’t have to wait to see if social media and crowdsourcing and mobile data in the cloud are going to add up to anything useful. It’s happened. These things are real, now today….We need to change our collective mindset from “let’s be […]
About a month ago, there was a minor uproar online after a female patron at a comedy show posted of an extremely unsettling experience her and her friend had on a Tumblr blog. The two women decided to go to a show featuring well-known comic Dane Cook (who they’d heard of) with Daniel Tosh (who […]
I’ve made a few passing references to the fact that I am no longer the Organization Development Specialist at Regina Public Library. Without going into specifics, there’s a bit of back story to how that all came about but the main thing to know for the purposes of this post is that when my position […]
A colleague sent me this article about a new augmented reality device – a ring with an embedded camera that can snap photos of objects then send that photo to a smartphone which can, in turn, analyse and provide feedback about what is being seen – colours, prices, etc. This hits two areas of interest […]
A web developer has created a map of the 350 000 largest sites on the Internet reflecting their relative size and also their relationships with each other. (via MetaFilter)
