Well, it's been five days with the iPhone and I'd say that it's a tie between the camera and the Apps for what I'm enjoying the most on the new gizmo. I've downloaded a whackload of apps in the last few days – even paid for a couple! Here are the ones I currently […]
You can read the report then the MetaFilter commentary to get an idea of why this report garnered such a reaction – positive, negative and just in terms of provoking conversation.The biggest thing to catch my eye? In a report which has sections dedicated to discussing how young people use Radio, Television, Newspapers, Gaming, Internet, […]
After contemplating it for…well, pretty much ever since the first iPhone came out…I finally broke down and bought one of the 32GB 3GS models today. To be honest, I probably wouldn't have done it even now except I heard it through the Shea-vine that her folks wanted to put some money towards a phone for […]
This article talks about a new auction site called Swoopo.com which is apparently super-addictive. The gimmick is that the site is sort of like a cross between an auction, a lottery and those “you only pay $0.25/call to vote for your American Idol. Er, vote as many times as you'd like!” deals.Every item up for […]
I first heard about a new Google service, Wave, during the Emerging Technology Interest Group pre-conference at CLA in early May. The whole idea is “What would e-mail look like if it was invented today?” And Wave is Google's answer. I never got around to posting it then but with yesterday's announcement that Google is […]
I heard about this innovative library program during a presentation by Red Deer Public Library’s Director at CLA. For the last two municipal elections, that city’s library has created information pages for all municipal candidates from the mayor to council to both school boards. The candidates provided the information and the library simply posted it […]
I don't hang out there as much as I used to but MetaFilter is still one of my favourite online communities – not least because the number of librarians that hang out there. (The link is to a cool Greasemonkey script that marks all posts by librarians on the site.) I'd lurked on the site […]
Came across this article while doing some unrelated searches. It's short so I'll quote it in its entirety. The cool thing? It's from 2003! I don't know what the Sask NDP uses these days but hopefully they've only expanded their use of open source technologies! (The link back to the original NDP newsletter with three […]
The MyHeritage Look-a-Like Meter is pretty fun. Pace apparently looks 11% more like Shea than me though to be fair, they have similar facial expressions in the picture I use, neither of them are wearing glasses while I am and of course, neither Pace nor his mother have a beard either!
I know I've been neglecting lots of things on this blog with all the political posts the past few months and the Friday Fun Link is one that I've felt most guilty about. Therefore, this week I'm going to do a pre-FFL, a real FFL and a post-FFL – lucky you! To start, Karaoke Machine […]
