Dr. Sam Trosow holds a pretty special place in my FIMS experience as both the first and last professor I had classes with. Thinking about my first class is pretty funny in retrospect but at the time quite stressful since I mis-read my schedule as my first night class happening at 7pm when in reality, […]
WikiLeaks (which is down as I write this for reasons I’ll get to) is a site that’s been around since 2006 and first got a mention on this blog just over a year ago for a library-related story. Since then, the site has released two fairly large dumps of information obtained from a single army […]
Wikipedia is having its annual fundraising drive and that got me thinking about a recent conversation I had with a fellow librarian. The discussion started as one of those “is reference dead?” chats (I don’t think it is by the way – though it’s definitely taken a pretty big hit with the rise of the […]
An interesting photo slideshow from NYT of how much of various foods you can get for a dollar. (via MetaFilter and in honour of some enjoyable time spent with MetaFilter moderator, Jessamyn West today at the RPL Staff Conference. There are exactly four MetaFilter members in the Regina area. I am one of them. Yay […]
RPL hosted a workshop with well-known library consultant, Rachel Van Riel of OpeningTheBook.com today, the only Saskatchewan stop on a cross-Canada tour that will also take her to Alberta and Ontario. The information presented was excellent and I’d highly recommend her to anyone looking for ideas on how to improve their libraries. As always, a […]
Hockey The Flames got spanked in their first game of the season against the Oilers (who almost made me want to cheer with them with what a dynamic young team they’ve assembled. But then I remembered that only could happen after they’ve sucked for much of the last decade so the feeling passed.) Topping the […]
I could write headlines for the World Weekly News with a subject line like that! But I did catch this little tidbit in a story about how Facebook is refusing pro-pot advertisments, even as one of the site’s co-founders donated $50 000 to the cause. Stephen Silberstein, the founder of Innovative Interfaces, a company that […]
Another in the long list of “Things I Should Post About” is a in-depth exploration of my own views on copyright, piracy and the impact & actions of the various related industries. But for now, I’ll say that sometimes it’s the exact opposite of what the RIAA would have you believe. For example, I watched […]
Recently finished Seth Godin”s book “The Purple Cow” which has a main premise that businesses should no longer do mass marketing to the big bulge that is the early and late majority but instead, focus on niche marketing to the much smaller but much more rabid early adopters group who are much more likely to […]
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Posted 19 September 2010
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“A woman with AIDS is filmed briefly, every day, for 90 days, and the changes she undergoes are dramatic. The very end may make you weep, but perhaps not for the reasons you expect.” Aids PSA Topsy from Human Music & Sound Design on Vimeo. (via MetaFilter)
