[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 […]
A web site that allows you to “play” the HTML of any web site. This isn't as straight-forward as it sounds…The CodeOrgan analyses the “body” content of any web page and translates that content into music. The CodeOrgan uses a complex algorithm to define the key, synth style and drum pattern most appropriate to the […]
With Google announcing a two million dollar donation to Wikipedia, I wonder, “did I predict the future nearly four years ago?” “I don't know if any two technology companies have been better suited for each other. There's already been rumours of a strategic partnership and, like the recent YouTube purchase, I think a formal partnership […]
…I would've cut the grass! View Larger Map And my workplace – Regina Public Library on the right and beautiful Victoria Park on the left… View Larger Map Oh, okay, one more. Here's our family farm overlooking the Qu'Appelle Valley. (It's not documented but someone said that a lot of small towns are in the […]
It's February which means Freedom to Read Week is coming at the end of the month. Every year, I try to do a few posts during that week to celebrate and draw attention to this important subject. For the past year, I've been bookmarking various stories I've come across that I thought had potential for […]
WikiHow is a site where anyone can add instructional guides on pretty much any topic you can think of. There's lots of good information (in between the tons of Google ads) from How to Teach Yourself Piano to How To Treat A Snakebite – although the usual caveat about the guides being user-submitted and editable […]
Apple's newest product wasn't a huge secret – the majority of observers predicted some form of tablet computer. So the speculation mainly centered around what form their tablet computer would take: like an iTouch but “better”? Some sort of iPhone/netbook hybrid? Something revolutionary with technologies we've never seen before? (Touch on both sides of the […]
Very revealing conversation with lots of info about the behind-the-scenes workings of Facebook as well as the site's future plans. Obviously, it's important to keep in mind this is an anonymous interview on the Internet. So who knows how true it is? AllofFacebook.com, a site dedicated to all things Facebook has an analysis but won't […]
