“Why don't you look it up on DiggieFilter?” – my mother-in-law talking about the web site I mention all the time on my blog.
Sometimes an idea for the day’s FFL pops right in your in-box on a Friday morning. Here’s something fellow Librarian Activist editor, David Jackson, sent me today. “I Bless The Rains Down in Africa” is an article from music web site Pitchfork, comparing the presence of information about Africa with information about the Star Wars […]
“Blogs, they're what old people do now…E-mail is the same way. The youngest generation of Internet users don't bother with blogs or e-mail, preferring social sites such as MySpace and instant messaging to stay in touch.” – Librarian.net's Jessamyn West, profiled in the “Everybody's Interesting” column of Valley News…although to be fair, the article does […]
A cultural anthropology professor has put together a very engaging presentation on what exactly “Web 2.0” is all about. (via Digg) [2007-02-05 – I love MetaFilter but man, sometimes they can be harsh. The majority are ripping this video a new one in a thread that was just posted. I sometimes forget that people – […]
Saskatchewan Round-UpSask Government Insurance, a crown corporation that provides insurance to all drivers in our province, is offering $180 rebates to safe drivers on their automobile insurance and lowering rates by an average of 5% as well (when we already have the lowest auto insurance rates in Canada – why do you think I love […]
Google announced their fourth quarter earnings today. They made a profit of $1.03 Billion which is triple what they made in the final quarter of 2005. I have to admit that I was responsible for, oh, about twenty bucks of that. I've detailed my experiments with creating Wikipedia pages, submitting Digg stories and my thoughts […]
Here's a group called “Librarians Who LibraryThing”.
One of the beautiful things about Firefox as a browser is how customizable it is. According to my stats, the vast majority of people reading this blog use that browser so I thought I'd pass along this site that I had bookmarked: I Want A Firefox Extension To… which is a collection of over 200 […]
Most people reading this are probably familiar with LibraryThing, a web site that allows you to easily enter and catalogue your books, see the libraries of others (including those with a similar collection to yours) and much more. But LibraryThing is not the only site in this area. Shelfari is the latest addition to the […]
Here's a new blog that regularly posts answer to reference-type questions. (via MetaFilter)
