In my interview for my first librarian job, I was asked that all-time favourite interview question, “Where do you see yourself going in ten years?” I replied “I'd like to be a director someday” but to this day, I honestly don't know how much of that answer was me being honest and how much was […]
Can you write a novel in 140 characters? I bet these folks could!
If you think about it, you can make a pretty strong case that Google is the closest thing we have to a scientifically-provable omniscient, omnipresent God. (I know I'm a believer!)Meanwhile, I saw this photo on an atheist message board today with the very un-PC but otherwise fitting caption given the recent sex scandals rocking […]
It's not where I got the name for this recurring feature but did you know there's an advocacy campaign to promote music education that's actually called Music Monday? Here's a catchy little a capella number from Serena Ryder that's the theme song for the cause which will be sung by school children across Canada on […]
Easily the best session at the PLA Virtual Conference I hosted at RPL last week was the one on “Marketing as Conversation: How to Interact with Your Community Through Your Web Site”. In fact, throughout the presentation, I just kept nodding my head and grinning like a goofball, thinking to myself, “Yep, uh-huh, that's right!” […]
A company that makes an alternate to traditional female hygiene products, the Moon cup, has a brilliant marketing gimmick on their web site where they encourage readers to submit their pet names for their, ahem, lady bits. One of the many jokes in the list of entries (I would give anything to hear George Carlin […]
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[Edit: As pointed out in the comments to this post and a Globe & Mail follow-up, they backed down on this announcement within a day.] The Harper Conservatives are quietly cutting funding for any organization within 25 km of a public library that offers public Internet access via the long-standing Community Access Program. This could […]
A pretty cool visual representation of the Top 100 Sites on the Internet. (via MetaFilter)
It's not book related but nothing says Freedom of Expression like the newest buzz site of the Internet, ChatRoulette. The site is exactly what it says – you hit the site and you see a chat window for yourself and one for a random person somewhere in the world. As soon as you get bored […]
