Category Archives: Technology

Friday Fun Link – 11 Sounds Your Kids Have Probably Never Heard

Luckily, through the magic of YouTube, now they can!

Singly – A Site For Your (Online) Life

There have been other sites – FriendFeed is one that immediately pops to mind – that have tried to become a central hub for all of your online activity.  But I don’t know if any have ever tried to pull your online activity into one location as a repository, not just a hub. Now, the […]

Why Isn’t YouTube Canadian?

Did you know that before there was YouTube, there was a similar Canadian site called iCraveTV.  Before there was Google, there was a similar Canadian company called OpenText?  Before there was Facebook, there was a similar Canadian company called Nexopia? Michael Geist exposes Canada’s regulatory environment as a major barrier to Canadian companies having success […]

Sappy Sunday – Sometimes Real Life Is Better Than Any CGI Fiction

Guaranteed to blow your mind – a time-lapse video shot by International Space Station astronauts flying over the Earth over a period of two months. Earth | Time Lapse View from Space | Fly Over | Nasa, ISS from Michael König on Vimeo. (via MetaFilter where they’ve solved what the ribbon of light across a […]

Saturday Snap – my iPhone Home Screen

A minor meme going around the social networks right now asks people to post their iPhone’s home screen. I just upgraded to an iPhone 4S last week (the battery was getting worse literally every single day so I finally broke down on the upgrade – even though I had to pay out to evil Rogers […]

Friday Fun Link – BookLamp

There are a lot of recommendation engines out there – Amazon, GoodReads, LibraryThing, Novelist, etc. etc. etc. – but BookLamp is one of the most unique I’ve found in that it tries to use pure mathematical algorithms to choose the books it recommends for users, similar to what Pandora does for music. Their biggest fault […]

Wisdom Wednesday – Is YouTube Killing Television?

And the answer (at least according to this infographic) is yes. Bonus: here’s a wise prognosticator on the same subject back in 2006… (Okay, it’s me but I’m pretty proud of this one – not just that it was my highest mark of library school but also because I really kicked ass on my presentation […]

Libraries and Crowdsourcing

A great article giving a few examples of how libraries have used crowdsourcing to manage large projects that are beyond the scope of their regular workforce and/or which take advantage of the “Wisdom of Crowds”.

Sad Sunday – “We all — in the end — die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many stories.”

Steve Jobs’ sister gave a eulogy at his recent funeral with many insights into the life he lived, how he dealt with his illness and even his telling last words.

Saturday Snap – Michael Jackson – The Immortal World Tour

[Edit: this post got linked to by a MJ Fan Community.  Visit that page for more news & reviews of the Saskatoon and other shows.] I’m sitting in a hotel room in Saskatoon having just watched “Cirque Du Soleil Presents: Michael Jackson – THE IMMORTAL World Tour” show. This is my third Cirque show (I […]