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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

The Rise & Fall of the Columbia House Record Club — and How We Learned to Steal Music

An article about the decline of mail-order record clubs claims that it was the “12 for a $0.01” record clubs that conditioned consumers to pay little to nothing

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… [slideshare id=26213&doc=the-universal-television-the-internet-and-the-end-of-space-time-pdf-w-speaking-notes-16189] (Okay, it’s me

Reddit, Free Speech and “Child Porn”

It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of the site, Reddit. In fact, I’d go so far as to say it’s currently my favourite site on the

I Will *Not* Be Asking You To Donate To The Wildrose Party Money Bomb ;-)

It’s not often that you can take credit for being the first to do something notable in Canadian history. (Well, you could if you counted things like “first

Too Many Tabs Tuesday

“Men, Which Books or Movies Have Most Resonated With Your Inner Thoughts?” (AskMF) MetaSkim – a new news site that attempts to provide targeted local news (MetaFilter) YouTube

In A Reverse of the Ongoing Move Towards Digitization of Books…

…the Internet Archive has announced a project to create an archive of one (physical) copy of every single book ever published.

CLA Releases Party Platform Analysis

It’s a rare post that allows me to combine the three pillars of this blog – libraries, technology and politics. But today, the Canadian Library Association released their

E-Books, Libraries and the Lessons of Blockbuster

I’m very interested in the impact of e-books on libraries and have been doing a lot of reading on the subject lately. I came across this article about

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