Oh yeah, and it's Friday so time for the weekly FFL (I almost forgot!) Tag-clouds for the first debates of the Democratic and Republican primaries. (via MetaFilter)
We've got a bit of a break before the evening events at SLA so me and a couple of my co-workers came back to our suite to relax. It's been a great day – seeing lots of people I know from my former life (SPG has a booth here staffed by a former colleague from […]
…for the Saskatchewan Library Association conference so posts may be few and far between until Saturday evening. Have a good weekend!
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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 […]
(Ottawa, April 24, 2007) – The Canadian Library Association (CLA) is pleased to announce Melissa Poremba as winner of the Canadian Library Association’s 24th Student Article Contest for “Resources You can Count on @ Your Library”. Melissa is a distance education student in the Library and Information Technician Program at Mohawk College. The idea for […]
A classmate wrote recently and mentioned in passing that I should read The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed. This made me realise it might be interesting to do an open post asking my readers (most of whom are librarians, writers or book industry types) what books they're reading and/or would […]
I posted an anecdote about Kurt Vonnegut from author Dave Margoshes a couple entries back. In the course of writing to ask permission to do this, I also took the opportunity to ask Dave, who also acts as the food critic with the local Prairie Dog weekly newspaper, if he’d be willing to give me […]
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 […]
