Category: Internet

Collegial Connections in a Digital Age

It's fascinating to think about the relationships we have with our colleagues in this digital age compared to how it was in pre-Internet (or at least the Jurassic

Google Saved My Ass!

Well, that title's probably a bit of an exaggeration but it got your attention, no?  I have an add-on in my Firefox called “Tab Mix Plus” which is

FTRW 2008 – "The Charms of Wikipedia" (with discussion of the policy of deleting of "non-notable" articles)

Author Nicholson Baker takes a look at Wikipedia and includes a critique of the number of articles being deleted for less-than-solid reasons.  [Edit to add a link to

FTRW 2008 – Rotten.com

One of the semi-frequent questions/complaints I get from our branch librarians is how to deal with patrons who are looking at pornography.  But during my training, one branch

Think Facebook Is The Only Game In Town?

It is in Canada but this map of social network popularity around the world shows there are a number of other services that are popular depending on where

The Demographics of Search (and A List of The Internet's Most Popular Sites)

TechCrunch recently had a story about a new study which found that  lower-income people tend to prefer Yahoo! and higher-income people prefer Google.  (Shea's reading over my shoulder

Automated Genealogy

Just the other day, I was thinking to myself “with all the social networking sites out there, when is somebody going to design an online genealogy site that

Friday Late Link – Free On-Demand Music (Feb 9, 2008)

I was going to link to a list of the symptoms of severe food poisoning and leave off at that.  But after sleeping sixteen hours out of the

We Get Questions, Lots and Lots of Questions

Just finished trying to help someone update their profile on VampireFreaks.com (half successfully, half not – I figured out how to add a background image rather than a

Silent Banker Trojan?!?

So I was giving my standard “these days, buying online or doing your online banking is as safe, if not safer, than doing it via a real world

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