Tout is a new social media site that combines elements of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to allow you to do 15-second video status updates. “Some moments in life just can’t be reflected in text. Tout delivers “life as it happens” in full-motion color and sound, as opposed to ‘life as it’s written in 140 characters […]
What Man Understands That He Is Dying Daily? – great carpe diem article about life, love and fatherhood (via RM Facebook post) The Economy of Cuba and Cuban Convertible Peso – insight into how the Cuban economy works 2011 : The Year of the Librarian – The Atlantic makes the connection at SXSW 2011 Behind […]
Brad Wall has 666 followers on Twitter!!!, originally uploaded by headtale. I did a similar post pointing this out about Dwain Lingenfelter’s Facebook page during the leadership race so I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out that I just noticed Brad Wall currently has 666 followers on Twitter! (The big difference is that […]
Just a link dump of some of the stuff I’ve got hanging around in my browser… “Evolving English” Exhibit at the British Library (via MF) “You’ll Upset Your Mother” – Atheists Are Expected to Remain Silent In A World Where Religion Is the Norm O Canada: Economic Lessons from Our Northern Neighbour (via somebody on […]
We have a PVR on our TV and one of the biggest benefits for me is the ability to all but avoid commercials – either by recording programs and watching them at a later time or even while watching a show in near real-time. This is especially useful for “event” television like oh, I don’t […]
Came across this on Twitter and thought I’d pass it along for anyone in Saskatchewan who’s interested in finding some more local contact for their Twitter feed.
A great summary of every single type of free online service you (or your library) might be interested in… (via LibrarianInBlack) Best Free Web Stuff for Broke Libraries View more presentations from Sarah Houghton-Jan.
The nature of the Internet is changing and developing constantly and one of the most significant evolutions is the nature of commerce online. Now, there’s always been commerce online and most definitely since the web entered the popular consciousness in the mid to late 1990’s. I remember buying a book from Amazon somewhere around 1997 […]
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 service of attacks on the WikiLeaks site as the first salvo and mentioning the plans of the hactivist group, Anonymous , to retaliate. That indeed came to […]
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 […]
