Category Archives: Internet

Link Dump

I don't do a lot of link dump posts but I've had a few things sitting open in tabs for the past couple weeks that had the potential to be full-fledged posts…except now, the baby has all but wrecked my ability to write anything for an extended length of time so this is what you […]

Friday Fun Link – The Best Places To Get Free Books Online (May 18, 2007)

LibrarianActivist has highlighted a couple sites in the past that offer free e-book downloads but this page has a comprehensive list of all the options online for getting free e-books and tree-books. (I love that the title of the post where I saw it on MetaFilter is “The Best Place To Get Free Books” and […]

Facebook Embarrassments

I was talking to a friend who refuses to join Facebook.  They said that part of the reason they didn't want to join was how competitive it seemed: “I have 46 friends.”  “I have 87 friends.”  “I have 99 friends.”  And what's the first line of my Feliciter article about Facebook?  “I have exactly 159 […]

Facebook's Dark Side (And Some Thoughts Why I Blog)

I'd seen this before but a friend sending it to me last week inspired me to get it up on the blog.  It's a Flash video making some conspiracy theorist claims about Facebook – the people who run it having CIA ties, the abuse of its data-mining abilities and so on.I'm not sure what to […]

The Revolution Will Not Be Dugg Down

This is one of the craziest things I've ever seen online.  Digg, the community web site where users can upload stories and then other users vote them up or down with the most popular stories forming the highly trafficked home page, had a major revolt yesterday.It began when an article that contained the encryption key […]

Friday Fun Link – "The Hole in the Wall" – A Digital Divide Experiment in India

An Indian physicist puts a PC with a high speed internet connection in a wall in the slums and watches what happens. What he discovered was that the most avid users of the machine were ghetto kids aged 6 to 12, most of whom have only the most rudimentary education and little knowledge of English. […]

Save Internet Radio

I'm not a huge fan of Internet petitions for the most part but this one makes sense, not least of all because it is trying to mobilize Internet users to save something specific to the online world, namely Internet radio.  The Myths & Facts section of the SaveInternetRadio.org web site is enlightening as is this […]

Time Lapse of the Wikipedia Article for the Virginia Tech Shooting

I'd seen something like this once before for some other news event (Saddam's hanging?) and, as I suspected, someone has one again created a time lapse of how the Wikipedia article for the VT shootings developed over its first 12 hours. Kinda interesting watching the article grow/change/mutate in a very organic fashion.  Actually, that makes […]

A Few Thoughts on E-mail

I came across the home page of a computer science professor who's given up on e-mail while searching for information on Facebook.  (It's not that he's switched completely to Facebook as you might think though – he's actually become 99% snail mail and 1% fax from the sound of things.  He doesn't use e-mail or […]

69/100 – My Web site's Grade Is Equal to My Grade Nine French Mark

WebSite Grade For https://headtale.com : 69/100 (overall) A website grade of 69 for https://headtale.com means that of the thousands of websites that have previously been submitted to the tool, our algorithm has calculated that this site scores higher than 69% of them in terms of its marketing effectiveness. The algorithm uses a proprietary blend of […]