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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
