“The Baldwin Project seeks to make available online a comprehensive collection of resources for parents and teachers of children. Our focus, initially, is on literature for children that is in the public domain in the United States. This includes all works first published before 1923.”Many of the texts include illustrations from the original book, such […]
I found the Secret Santa site, Elfster, via MetaFilter and thought I'd give it a shot on this blog. Odds are, if you're reading this blog, you're a book lover who has a living space full of books you'll likely never get around to reading or will never read again. So here's what I'm proposing: […]
In library school, we learned that young people today have become visual learners (to the point that their brain patterns are physically different than people in previous generations!) While people of our parents age learned through books and people of my generation (Gen X) were like the transitional conductor between text and video, them crazy […]
I came up with the moniker “Head Tale” when I had a freelance consulting company doing web site design back in the late 1990's. I liked that the name connoted a few different things including the luck of a coin flip, telling stories, and my hometown of Indian Head. (Okay, and I also liked that […]
I recently came across an article titled “Facebook in a Crowd” in the New York Times magazine. It was written by Canadian writer, Hal Niedzviecki and details the fact that he has nearly 700 Facebook friends but, when he tried to use Facebook Events to plan a party in Toronto and invited every one on […]
So I'm watching the Calgary Flames game earlier tonight and that inspires me to do something I haven't done in a long time – look at the MLS listings for our old neighbourhood in Calgary. I'll admit that when we first left Calgary in 2004, I did this search on a WAY too regular basis. […]
See if you can follow this…Shea's cousin posted a comment on a photo that someone he knows uploaded to Facebook. Shea was able to view this photo and the comments that had been made about it even though she is not Facebook friends with the person that originally posted the photo. (This is a […]
Yet another groundbreaking Google project was announced a month ago. I didn't blog about it at the time but I recently rediscovered it via the Vancouver Law Librarian blog which made me realise the full scope of this project already. So I thought I better pass it along. So Google's announcement that it will be […]
Deletionpedia attempts to capture the tens of thousands of pages that have been deleted from Wikipedia for one reason or another. It sometimes misses the odd one but hey, look, the page I started on Lukas Rossi is still going strong! If you didn't read it the first time I posted it, you should also […]
…Be Found in Social Q&A Sites? I think so. Ask.MetaFilter.com is one of my first stops whenever I'm seeking information – whether it's technology, parenting or pretty much anything else. Jessamyn may not be going quite as far as me on this but she did have a recent post on the topic. “[It] really comes […]
