In homage to RefGrunt, here's a sample of some of the topics I addressed and questions I helped people with during my two “Ask The Computer Guru” drop-in sessions and two “Everything You Want To Know about the Internet” presentations today…– how to restore the e-mail address book from a crashed computer to a new […]
This physics based Flash game is probably the single most fun thing I've found on the Internet in a long time. Very addictive! (via MetaFilter which has some ideas on what you should build – catapult anyone? – and I noticed it was also posted on Reddit)
I thought I wrote about Wikia when I first heard about it but couldn't find anything via my blog search engine. So I guess this will be my first mention of it here. Here's a link to the new search engine……and here's some more background information.
I was looking through my MetaFilter profile – seeing which posts and comments of others that I've favourited and who has favourited posts and comments of mine. This led me to realise that someone appears to have paid the $5 lifetime membership to create a MetaFilter account simply to have a profile with a single […]
Quinn has posted a great article on his site (I've bolded the really fascinating part below):At the risk of jinxing things – I think it’s pretty clear that there’s a historic shift underway between activities we used to engage in offline and things we now do online. It’s no surprise, for example, that CD saleswere down […]
Housecleaning isn't just a physical activity anymore – now, I find I have to take the time to clear out my virtual detritus every once in awhile too. So here are some links and articles I've had kicking around for awhile waiting for a good time to post. Amazon: New & Future Book ReleasesLibrarians talk […]
I was looking at my blog stats today and started thinking about RSS (really simple syndication for anyone who doesn't know – a technology that allows you to use an external source – either your e-mail client or a web site or a piece of software or whatever) to track your favourite sites. So, if […]
Google will soon be releasing their own take on a Wikipedia-style of information resource – Google Knols (screenshot). Some of the significant differences will be: named authors (who can choose to receive a portion of ad revenue for the “knol” pages they write) instead of Wikipedia’s anonymous author model. The site will allow multiple “knols” […]
Following up nicely on yesterday's post about Yahoo Answers! (with its passing compliment of Ask MetaFilter), I see today that a MetaFilter user has taken the time to compile and categorize a master list of book-related questions from Ask MetaFilter in Wiki format. Called ReadMe, I especially like that the first question listed on the […]
