Category: Internet

Betty White on SNL and Six Other Victories of the Internet That Influenced Pop Culture

Former Golden Girl and definitely not-the-typical Saturday Night Live host, Betty White actually *was* the host of last night's show, mainly because of an Internet campaign that started

Facebook Doesn't Care About You

Facebook has a long history of implementing features that are counter to what users want and/or treating their users like shit with a general lack of respect.  Lately,

Amazon Releases Info on Most Highlighted Kindle Books and Passages

How many times have you been reading a book, come across a great quote and then, unless you're really anal diligent and somehow transcribed it, ended up forgetting

Friday Fun Link – Blippy & fallin.gs – Oversharing Hits New Lows

If you didn't hear, Blippy, a site that encouraged users to share details about their credit card purchases in another escalation of the TMI world of social networking,

Saturday Snap – iDrool

Our Deputy Director was in Chicago for a conference recently and brought home a really nice souvenir! Shea's jealous that I got to play around with this as

Parody Is Not An Infrigement of Copyright (Watch It While You Can)

I wrote about this meme before.  Turns out that a couple years after these parodies gave their German-language art house film some international attention, the people who made

On Being A Manager (Someday Maybe) and The Future of Work

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

50 Best Book People to Follow on Twitter

Can you write a novel in 140 characters?  I bet these folks could!

Friday Fun Link – Is Google God? (April 2, 2010)

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

Music Monday – "You gotta sing, sing, sing, sing out loud/Doesn't matter if you stay on track"

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?  

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