There were a lot of suitors in the mix for this inevitability but in the end, I think Google's the best fit. Will be interesting to see how this develops from here. I think part of the reason Big Media never went after YouTube was that it didn't have a lot of capital – why […]
I told my in-laws about this blog and now I know that my mother-in-law is reading on a regular basis. So I thought I'd do an entry dedicated to her and my father-in-law. They're part-owners of a herd of buffalo in Saskatchewan so I thought this riddle is fitting. The sentence listed in the title […]
Here is a list of Firefox extensions I have installed on my computer: DOM Inspector – inspect web page information FoxyTunes – allows you to control multimedia functions within your browser GooglePreview – shows screenshots along with Google searches MetaFilthy – tracks which threads you've read on MetaFilter ColourfulTabs – makes tabs more readable SearchEngineOrdering […]
The new online library student journal (creatively called “Library Student Journal”) has an article about how libraries currently serve babies. (Resists urge to make Jonathan Swift joke.) I guess one way to solve the problem of “baby” entries versus “library” entries on this blog is to combine the two topics!And what's my record for blog […]
The vast majority of people I talk to who have recently started blogs all seem to say the same thing: “I don't really like blogs but I decided to give it a shot.” This instinctive reaction against blogs is interesting – why is there a natural resistance to blogs? (Going way back to entry one […]
Even though it rained off and on, Shea and I had a great day at the Kitchener-Waterloo's edition of the Word on the Street Festival today. Having been a board member of the Calgary edition for three years, I was looking forward to seeing what one of the other host cities for this national festival […]
Scholarly Journal Submission UpdateJust finished submitting the revised version of “Useless as Tits on a Bull: User Fees in Alberta Public Libraries” to Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Research and Theory. As I said before, it's been an extremely educational process, I got some great feedback and even if they don't decide to publish it […]
So I got hooked on the RockStar: Supernova TV show and tonight watched the finale where Toronto's Lukas Rossi became the second Canadian in a row to win on the show. I am proud to report that I was the one who created the intial page for him on Wikipedia and of course, this makes […]
Woke up at 8am today to watch the real-time video stream of CNN's coverage from five years ago that they're showing all day today.
Here's my own real-time coverage, a chat I had that morning with the person who took over from me at the Sask Publishers Group
In addition to giving out free water, a free keychain with a combination compass, pen light and whistle, free candy necklaces and free frisbees, Weldon Library had a pretty cool idea to help promote the library for their Frosh Week display – producing on-the-spot postcards at their display just outside their front entrance. On a […]
