If you’re like me, you probably woke up yesterday to find your Facebook, Twitter and other social feeds flooded with links to a video called “Kony 2012“. Most people posting it didn’t have much more info than that so I didn’t watch it right away – partly because its length (half an hour) and partly […]
While each of the candidates can point to some Saskatchewan backers, the most visibly involved segment of Saskatchewan’s NDP membership has been a group providing support for Niki Ashton – who thusfar has fallen short of the field in terms of overall support. But if (as seems likely) Ashton drops off the ballot with a […]
I haven’t written a lot about the federal NDP leadership race although I have been following it fairly closely. With the recent (and unfortunate) withdrawal of Romeo Saganash, there are seven candidates left in the race. My friend, the Accidental Jurist, has been keeping tabs and after today’s French-language debate, posted his latest rankings of […]
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Posted 12 February 2012
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I’ve mentioned Quora a couple times before. It’s a community-based Q&A site built by two ex-Facebook employees that some project will be bigger than Twitter and Wikipedia. The site lets you follow different topics as well as individual questions. This approach gives you a pretty high degree of personalization and the weekly e-mail digest of […]
Noted library leader, Ken Haycock, has a regular e-newsletter which contains columns on a wide variety of library and related topics. I don’t always agree with these columns (I’m still percolating a response to one he sent out in recently about why public libraries should be open on Christmas Day) but do find them thought-provoking […]
We’re a couple days into our trip and finally over our jet lag and the time change (four hours earlier than home) though Shea and I still find ourselves going to bed around 8pm (midnight at home) and getting up at 4am (8am at home) so far. We’re on Kauai’s east side so that’s okay […]
On December 25, people around the world celebrate the birth of a man whose ideas not only changed the world but revolutionized it. Although the man’s religious beliefs evolved and changed over time, that doesn’t change the fact that he is widely regarded as one of the most influential people to ever have lived. I […]
It’s one of the most remarkable Christmas songs of all-time as well as my personal favourite (but did it make its writers rich as some think a hit Christmas song inevitably does?) Here’s the first in a six-part story of how it came to be (the other five parts should come up as you finish […]
[Edit: I am a prophet! Kim Jong Il died two days after I posted this entry!] With the announcement of “The Protester” as Time’s 2011 Person of the Year, it made me realise that its been a bad year for dictators. Osama Bin Laden is gone. Ghadaffi is gone. Mubarak is gone. Vladimir Putin is […]
I don’t know how long it’s been around but Bagism.com is one of the first sites I visited regularly on the Internet back in the mid to late 1990’s. I haven’t thought of that site for years until thinking about a good way to capture today’s sad anniversary. I’m sure it’s not what John meant […]
