Category: Internet

Majority of Canadian Internet Users Say File Sharing Is No Big Deal

An article detailing results of Canadian internet users' views on file sharing.  Nearly 45% of respondents say those who use P2P and file sharing services to download music

The Sites I Use for Basic Research

Our recent trip to Vegas made me think that I should do an entry where I list all of the sites I tend to visit (roughly in order)

Ryan Meili and Dwain Lingenfelter Facebook Face-off (aka I Have Too Much Time On My Hands)

When I first started looking into the NDP leadership race, I went to the now obligatory Facebook fan pages of each of the four leadership candidates.  I was

Friday Fun Link – The Very Happy Googlepillar? (Mar 20, 2009)

I knew taking a blog-holiday to go to Vegas could be a bad idea.  I haven't posted for the last couple days which is a gap that I've

I'm Published…Sort of

I've mentioned one of the all-time most popular Ask Metafilter threads on this blog before – “What childhood experience most shaped who you are today?”  It's a a

FTRW 2009 – Internet Filtering in Ontario Lbraries?

I started the week talking about a discussion the librarians at RPL were having about the issue of patrons viewing pornography on the public access computers.  Although this

Friday Fun Link – 25 Things I Hate About Facebook (Feb 20, 2009)

I did a “Seven Things You Don't Know About Me” mini-meme but I haven't succumbed to the pressure to do the full “25 Things” meme that's going around. 

A Brief List of the MAJOR Facebook Screw-ups Over The Years

(with the relevant Mark Zuckerberg apology excerpt in italics…)1. Their launch of Newsfeed in 2006 which they implement, then backtrack then re-implement it with tighter privacy controls available.“We

Friday Fun Link – DeweyMusic (Feb 6, 2009)

The title of this site is perhaps a bit misleading, especially for us library types.  So  I'll let the original poster on MetaFilter take it away… “DeweyMusic makes

Web 2.0 Is Eating My Brain

I've got Web 2.0 on the brain lately.  After former FIMS classmate and current RPL colleague Trudi S. gave a very well-received “Introduction to Web 2.0” session for

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