With a few changes and additions, the following is what I posted on the MetaFilter thread discussing the riot after last night’s game… — I’ve heard a wide range of opinions (many mentioned in this thread) on why this particular riot happened… It was drunken Canucks fans. It was anarchists. It was gang members/hooligans/insurgents. (I […]
…”within a few years.” So frackin‘ cool if it’s true!
I’m at the Workshop for Instruction in Library Use (WILU) conference in Regina from today until Friday. Here are a few random thoughts from my first day… – it’s always enjoyable to attend a conference in a different city – staying in a hotel, eating meals in cool restaurants, checking out the attractions of a […]
Following up on yesterday’s post listing Five Good Things About Librarians, here are some generalizations about the weaknesses many librarians share… 1. Librarians are often extremely anal retentive What else would you expect from a profession which has the organization and classification of the world’s information as one of its core purposes? Part of this […]
So I’ve had a couple days to let the election results sink in and I thought I’d do a few quick hits on various topics coming out of that history-making day. As I posted on Facebook immediately after, it was real mixed emotions after the results were confirmed. Elation. And puking. Elation in that the […]
When I watch sports, I tend to be someone who, when my team is down, thinks “there’s no way we can win!” and when they’re up, thinks “there’s no way we can lose!” rather than being somebody who knows that the momentum will go back and forth and anything can happen right up until the […]
For the longest time, “Angry Birds” was the most popular game on the iPhone store and for the longest time, I resisted buying it because ninety-nine cents seemed like a lot to pay for something that looked like a silly kid’s game. 😉 But I finally broke down and bought it and though I don’t […]
It’s just come out that the iPhone creates a secret file on user’s computers without their knowledge or permission which has a record of their geo-location information. Unsurprisingly, this has privacy advocates up in arms. Jessamyn West wrote about this and linked to a small app you can download which can help you visualize what […]
Tout is a new social media site that combines elements of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to allow you to do 15-second video status updates. “Some moments in life just can’t be reflected in text. Tout delivers “life as it happens” in full-motion color and sound, as opposed to ‘life as it’s written in 140 characters […]
There’s been lots of social media activity this election as expected. Two of my main aggregators of news & viral content are Twitter’s #exln41 hash tag and Reddit’s Canada sub-Reddit. Here are a few things that have caught my eye recently: ShitHarperDid.com (and related hilarious YouTube videos) (MetaFilter) VoteLab – interesting idea but I suspect […]
