Okay, maybe not but the Facebook MyType application is the first application I've installed on Facebook in a *long* time.I'm not sure what I got in high school but I think every time I've taken the test (official or an unofficial variation) since then, I've gotten ENFP.Here's a summary of what that personality type is […]
Kiva is a web site that helps facilitate micro-credit loans to entrepreneurs around the world. (As always, Wikipedia has more information about this organization if you're interested.) Shea got a Kiva gift certificate as a Mother's Day Gift and is helping two people: Ruth Celenia Santana Morales who sells clothes and jewelery in the Dominican […]
Spectra is a new visual news reader from MSNBC. I haven't played around with it much but it looks cool, mostly because the news spins in a circle instead of the old-fashioned columnar approach. Whoo-hooo! On a much broader scale, I've recently come across a couple lists predicting of technologies that will change the world […]
“YouTomb is a research project by MIT Free Culture that tracks videos taken down from YouTube for alleged copyright violation.” (via Reddit)
TimeTube is a site that creates a timeline of YouTube videos based on any keyword you enter and sorted based on the date they were added. You can also view the results in a couple other modes – “list view”, “flipbook” and “map view” for videos that have been tagged with a location. They have […]
Seems counter-intuitive but apparently a Slice of the German Wikipedia is to Be Captured on Paper. (via Sandra M.)
I have to admit that I've been cheating on MetaFilter. Once a site that I had to spend quality time with on a daily basis, it had slipped and been replaced in my affection by Reddit, a sexy little site which has a lot more technology news, a lot more politics, a lot more humour, […]
The funniest part is that I've got nothing but positive comments about my Pace montage on YouTube and I probably encouraged one or two people to seek out (and maybe even buy!) this old country tune. Well, I can't complain too much – Universal Music Group is progressive enough that they let the video stay […]
Well, the conference is over for another year! We finished off the joint SLA-MLA conference with a great social event at the Cathedral Village Free House where I was finally able to meet Jessamyn West. Well, that's not quite true – I've “met” her before but this was the first time meeting her in person. […]
If you're like me, you spend all your time wondering “What's it like to be a celebrity in today's day and age with your name splashed all over, not just TV, print and other traditional media, but on literally millions of sites across the Internet, large and small?” Also, “what does George Clooney think of […]
