34 – age I turned today 25 – age someone recently told me I was really at 4 – Number of gifts Pace got from Shea today 2 – Number of gifts I got from Shea today2 – Number of times Pace almost peed on me1 – Number of times Pace peed in his own […]
Okay, we're not quite there yet (or you aren't if you're my age – I suspect 18-24 year olds are) but it feels like we're heading in that direction. E-mail was the original “killer app” of the Internet. It was the one service that everybody online had since you got issued an e-mail address as […]
The author of the popular Freakonomics book looks at the question, “If public libraries didn’t exist, could you start one today?” “But here’s the point I’m (finally) getting to: if there was no such thing today as the public library and someone like Bill Gates proposed to establish them in cities and towns across the […]
I finally managed to catch up on responses to the comments that have come in over the last month (my policy is to try to respond to every comment I get – post a “hey Jay” and see if it's true! ) There was one a month ago from Taryn that said this:“Hi Jason, I'm […]
(Chris liked this photo I snapped of him after a 503 class so much that he asked me to send it to him for possible use in his wedding album.)It seems like a cruel joke that I'm in the midst of posting eulogies I've done for my grandparents and then I get the news that […]
When did this blog go from a wide swath of technology-related stories to “Today's Facebook news is…” But Facebook is booming – I'm finding and being found by old college friends, work colleagues and more. My mom's not on (yet) but I expect that add request any day. The strangest? I was looking at […]
A MetaFilter thread discussing an essay entitled “Viewing American Class Divisions Through MySpace and Facebook” leads to this interesting nugget: Toronto has the most Facebook members of any city in the world (that's absolute “most”, not even per capita. This means TO outranks much larger cities including New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. Canada has […]
Here's a great answer to the question of what exactly happens when you do a Google query.
In keeping with the topic of the day over at my other most favourite site on the Internet, LibrarianActivist, here’s a report on internet filtering from the National Coalition Against Censorship which is admittedly, a bit dated, having been produced in 2001. But it gives an excellent overview of many of the issues and problems […]
I can't remember if I ever mentioned it on this blog (probably knowing me) but I'm currently volunteering on the web site redesign task force of the Canadian Library Association. For tomorrow's telefconference, everybody was asked to submit a link to a web site whose navigation they thought worked well. Some people did, others simply […]
