Wordie – Flickr But Without the Photos (aka "A Site For Word Lovers")

Wordie is a site that “lets you make lists of words and phrases. Words you love, words you hate, words on a given topic, whatever. Lists are visible

Friday Late Link – Visualization of English Words (Friday Jan 16, 2009)

A visualization of all nouns in the English language arranged by semantic meaning.(via MetaFilter)

"As usual, when it was mentioned that 75% (or whatever) of those working in libraries were women, you could hear the crickets chirping." (or "The Story of How Jason Became A Librarian")

Steven Chabot, my colleague (and roomie) from the Canadian Library Human Resources Summit is looking into some of the reasons why men enter the profession.  Anything related to

YouTube Now Muting Videos Which Use Unauthorized Copyrighted Music

About a year ago, I got a “Claim of Copyright” notice for the montage video I made of photos around Pace's birth using the song “Tippy-Toeing” by Loretta

Top Tech Trends 2009

About once a month, give or take, RPL hosts an Education Institute presentation that staff members can attend.  Today's session is Micheal Stephens giving his annual “Top Tech

Music Monday – "I'll be very angry/And possibly litigious…with a great dance beat."

I'm no fan of the techmo music but when Stephen Colbert demands that none of his viewers remix the interview after a visit from Lawrence Lessig, that's good

Mortality Movie Weekend

Last night, we watched Tim Burton's “Big Fish“.  I barely remember hearing about this movie when it came out for some unknown reason.  I only picked it up

Friday Fun Link – JustHearIt (Jan 9, 2009)

There are a few similar services out there but JustHearIt is one of the best I've seen for being able to instantly stream pretty much any song you

A Digital Library, Free to the World

Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, gives a TED talk on his vision of a digitized future…

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