The BBC reports that the top Google search terms this year were Bebo Myspace …which is kind of peculiar, if you think about it a moment. Both Bebo and Myspace have blindingly obvious URLs, so instead of typing into a Google search box you could type into the address bar directly (you could even leave […]
Category: Tech stuff
Leah is wrong, as usual
Why online should be off limits in the bedroom And on and on it goes. Wherever you find a household with wireless technology, you will more than likely find a man who is trying to bring a laptop into bed and a woman who is trying to prevent him from doing it. One girlfriend of […]
Internet filtering map
The OpenNet Initiative out of The Citizen Lab at U of T has done an excellently effective visual representation of internet filtering worldwide. You can click on countries to get more details. Very nice piece of work.
Thinking about technology
A chunk of my job has me looking around to see who’s doing what with interactivity, information sharing and the other more human aspects of tech. Librarians seem to be light-years ahead of academics on a lot of this stuff — or at least, they’re better at writing it and better at sharing it. Shifted […]