Category Archives: Internet

Truth In Number: The Wikipedia Story (Trailer)

This looks pretty wicked…

Google Gets Healthy, Rate My MD

Google is apparently setting up a health site. Google Health Screenshots are now available online.  On a related note, I've talked about RateMyProfessors.com on this blog before but have you seen RateMDs.com which is similar except when somebody gets a 0 rating, that usually means they've killed somebody or otherwise, majorly screwed up.   Kinda […]

Crackbook Musings

Shea was rapidly catching up to me so I've spent the last couple hours ping-ponging from person to person's friend lists on Facebook madly adding people I know (and knew and wish I knew).  Here are some random thoughts from the process…– In “The Tipping Point“, Malcolm Gladwell uses the term “Connector” to define one […]

If It's Saturday, It Must Be A Link Dump (Plus A Bonus Sex Story)

I just had it brought to my attention that Bloglines isn't reading my feed (and hasn't since July 18 – wow, my birthday post helped knock out part of the Internet!).  If you subscribe to this blog via Bloglines, hopefully you've realised this and are checking in directly or reading this via another RSS reader […]

TinyURL Explorer

TinyURL is a useful site that helps convert some of those mega-long URL's that some web sites give to their pages into something that's way more manageable.  The site doesn't re-use their shortened versions and doesn't delete them (although some you click on may be expired at the source) so naturally, somebody has come up […]

All Walls Will Crumble In Time… (Thoughts on Creating A New Facebook Account)

Shea's been resisting for a long time but while attending a 65th birthday party last night and hearing various parents discuss whether or not they should join Facebook like their kids, Shea decided she'd rather lump herself with the younger generation than the older one and has thus, finally joined Facebook.I was happy to see […]

Yet Five More Ways To Improve Facebook

I'm getting lots of hits for my Facebook related writings (especially my recent post on whether Facebook was replacing e-mail) so why not add to the chatter some more?  So, to follow-up on the last two lists like this, here are yet five more ways I'd improve Facebook (post-apps version.)  (Oh, and if you haven't […]

Friday Fun Link – 10 Reasons Librarians Should Use Ask.com Instead of Google (July 27, 2007)

The title says it all. (Also I’m in a bit of a pinch for time this week as I’m heading to a lake soon and will be sans Internet for a day or two.)

Reference Question o' the Day

Can anybody with better Google-fu than I find a web page/study/chart listing internet usage by profession/occupation?  I've just done some quick searching with Google but haven't turned up anything.  This isn't for anything particular – just out of interest – but I'd be especially happy if “librarian” was included on any list you find as […]

Around the Horn: Highlights From Other Blogs I Read

Similar to my FFL last week, Michelle L. links to another article slamming the impact of the Potter books. If you're going to buy her book, don't buy it for half price at a supermarket. As an example of a world gone mad, you couldn't do much better than this: a writer whose sales have […]