It's a loooong story but in our genealogy class, there was a bit of a revolt and a group of students ended up going to the prof to request our final assignment be changed from something that, as assigned, was going to be very redundant and not give us much in the way of library-centered […]
I recently exchanged a couple e-mails with an MLIS student who was thinking of doing a paper on Yahoo! Answers having seen one of their executives do a presentation at OLA SuperConference. I suggested that she should focus on Ask Metafilter which is arguably a lot more successful at what it does than Yahoo Answers. […]
Heard via the grapevine that “505 – Technology” is officially gone as a required course at FIMS. Here's a bit of background on how this came about… (Disclaimer: all of the following is from my admittedly-faulty memory of stuff that happened months ago when I was at my busiest point in my final semester. For […]
“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”.
