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2010 “End of Year Questions” Meme: BC Bound, Getting Kinected, Hello SILS!

I’ve done this every year since I started this blog and once again, here’s a quick summary of my 2010 in meme form: 1. What did you do

Sappy Sunday – “Today You, Tomorrow Me”

Although it wasn’t written for the holiday season (actually it was in a thread about picking up hitchhikers), a Redditor shares a “pay it forward” story that seems

Web War I: The War to End All Warz?

On Sunday, I did a post about the WikiLeaks situation where I mentioned the possibility of the world’s first true “cyber-war” as one likely outcome, citing the denial

Wisdom Wednesday – “Another Look at Bill C32 and the Access Copyright Tariff”

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

WikiLeaks: Free Speech, Cyberwar 1.0 and Corporate Control of the Cloud

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

The Library’s Role in Supporting Wikipedia

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

Friday Fun Link – Food For A Dollar

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

Notes from Rachel Van Riel Workshop at Regina Public Library

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

Five Hits on Thanksgiving Day

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

Saskatchewan’s Libraries Helping to Support California Pro-Pot Legislation?!?

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

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