A great summary of every single type of free online service you (or your library) might be interested in… (via LibrarianInBlack) Best Free Web Stuff for Broke Libraries View more presentations from Sarah Houghton-Jan.
Guility. Yep. Definitely. Learned it in Typing10 a million years ago. Hard to break a habit like that. (H/T to CP on FB for the link)
The nature of the Internet is changing and developing constantly and one of the most significant evolutions is the nature of commerce online. Now, there’s always been commerce online and most definitely since the web entered the popular consciousness in the mid to late 1990’s. I remember buying a book from Amazon somewhere around 1997 […]
(Trying the “Press This” WordPress bookmarklet…) 8 Smears and Misconceptions About WikiLeaks Spread By the Media | | AlterNet. [Edit: Oh, and here’s a Reddit thread that summarizes, beyond the hype and lies, “what has WikiLeaks actually done?”]
As I posted on Facebook on New Year’s Day, there was a time when puking all night on New Year’s Eve meant you’d had a “good time”. But this year, it wasn’t such a good time since Pace caught a flu bug and spent the night in bed between Shea and I, puking into a […]
I think I post this site every year and once again, Fimoculous is compiling all of the various “Best of” and “Top 10” lists that come out around the end of the year. It’s a great place to check in on the music, movies, books and other listable items that you may have missed.
A Google Labs project, the strangely named NGram Viewer allows you to search for various words and see how their usage in books within the Google Books archive has changed over the past 200 year (or any time frame you specify). Examples: Hitler Computer (note the weird blip around 1900?) War Socialism Negro Canada (highest […]
This slideshow presentation was made only using Google Docs’ “Presentation” mode – no Flash, no animation software, no trickery at all!
With the announcement of Mark Zuckerberg as Time’s 2010 “Person of the Year”, I thought it would be fitting to post this awesome map that’s been created by a Facebook engineer comprised solely of lines showing the connections between 10 million Facebook users around the world. (Full size image – 4.3 mb but worth it) […]
Sorry to go to “all WikiLeaks, all the time” lately but this story really interests me for all the implications it has in a number of areas – from world politics to freedom of speech to corporate power to the overarching impact of the Internet in each of those realms. Here’s another editorial which I […]
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Posted 12 December 2010
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