Amazing what getting a mobile phone will do in terms of making your realise that your blog is quite, uhm…heavy…with all kinds of marginally useful widgets, random links and assorted other junk. Luckily, there's a really easy way to use Google Reader to create a poor man's mobile version of your blog.Just bookmark the following […]
Because Cory Doctorow's new novel, “Little Brother” is the first e-book I'm reading on my iPhone (very readable, thank-you very much), I got to see his copyright notice which I'm reproducing here in its entirety because it's such a great summary of how copyright should work in a sane and rational world: THE COPYRIGHT THING […]
I found out about Paul MacLeod because I saw that Hawksley Workman had produced one of his early albums. (Oh, I see Hawksley did a few of them actually.) I downloaded this song which I found on Napster or another early file sharing service then went out and bought the entire album (yes, I know, […]
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 […]
