Category: Internet

Friday Fun Link – Spectra Visual Newsreader (and Some Thoughts on Some Other, More World-Changing Future Technologies) (May 23, 2008)

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

YouTomb: A Directory of Videos Taken Down From YouTube

“YouTomb is a research project by MIT Free Culture that tracks videos taken down from YouTube for alleged copyright violation.” (via Reddit)

Friday Fun Link – TimeTube: YouTube Timelines Mashup (May 9, 2008)

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

Wikipedia Goes To…Print?

Seems counter-intuitive but apparently a Slice of the German Wikipedia is to Be Captured on Paper. (via Sandra M.)

Canada Is Today's Frontier Upon Which The War of File-Sharing Legality Is Being Waged

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

I'm So Proud – My First Official Copyright Violation Notice (a single tear rolls down my cheek)

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

"[We] discussed who had learned to drive on a tractor [answer: almost everyone, including me]"

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

Friday Fun Link – What Happens When George Clooney Googles "George Clooney" (May 3, 2008)

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,

10 Ways The Internet (As We Know It) Will Die

In roughly a decade or so, we've gone from the Internet just entering the general public's consciousness to being ubiquitous and something most of us pretty much take

"You can however, see a screening of 'I Am Legend'. Of course, somebody probably downloaded it from the Net." – Brad Fidler Searches For the Actual Physical Location Where the Internet Began

Quinn's friend, Brad Fidler, happens to be at the UCLA where, in 1969, the first message was transmitted across what we now know as the Internet.  He's made

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