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Turning the Page In A Digital Age

A recent Globe & Mail article on Indigo's current practices and strategies provides a lot of ideas about what public libraries will have to consider in an increasingly

Friday Fun Link – You Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover – But Can You By Its Title? (July 3, 2009)

Print-on-demand web site, Lulu.com has a service that helps project how well your book will do based solely on its title.  The algorithm was developed exclusively for Lulu

Friday Fun Link – "This Bespells Doom" – Authors Signing Kindles (June 26, 2009)

If Jeff Bezos was smart, he'd have incorporated a stylus right into the design of the Kindle so authors could “sign” their digital books.  (Of course, maybe they

King of Pop Dies

There's tons of commentary all over the web after the news broke that Michael Jackson died today.  I don't have much to add but here's a couple random

Friday Fun Link – A Trailer For "The Road" (May 22, 2009)

I haven't looked this forward to a movie since probably “Batman: Dark Knight” which completely lived up to my expectations plus more.  I hope this one does the

Friday Fun Link – "If there was one book you could read again for the first time, what would it be?" (May 8, 2009)

Ask.Reddit has some interesting responses to the question “If you could read one book again for the first time, what would it be?” Hmm, one book?  There are

Barack Obama Reads "Where The Wild Things Are" at the White House Easter Egg Hunt

Pretty good technique…is there anything this man can't do?(Thanks to Pam J. for the link via Facebook)

Music Monday – "I was sitting there watching TV/Wendy came and sat on my knee."

In honour of the last episode of “Corner Gas” tonight, here's one of my favourite songs by the Odds, the former band of Craig Northey who wrote the

Friday Fun Link – Free Music Archive (April 10, 2009)

The Free Music Archive is a social music website built around a curated library of free, legal audio…we're working towards an open source model and your feedback will

Friday Fun Link – Video to MP3 Convertor

Sometimes you come across a really cool song on YouTube that you know you'll never get via iTunes or even the P2P filesharing services.  That's where Video2MP3.net comes

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