Category: Internet

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:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Security Hole in Facebook?

I've had this happen a couple times in the past few weeks so thought I'd mention it.  If you add someone on Facebook who has the “Auto Reply”

A Response to Rory Litwin Re: Librarian Stereotypes

A librarian at LPL named Kevin Moore started a Facebook group called “No, I don't look like a librarian” and a few people uploaded humourous pictures of themselves

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