A few weeks ago now, I had to decide whether I would renew my domain name for this blog or just kill it off. I must admit the temptation was there to simply pull the plug on it and in less than dramatic fashion, let it slip away into the depths of […]

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I got an email a few days ago from AbeBooks announcing the following new service, BookHint!:
Powered by LibraryThing, AbeBooks presents BookHints: the most insightful book recommendation system to date. BookHints are brought to you from an entire community of book lovers, so keep an eye out for them - we aim to help you […]

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Was there life before del.icio.us? If so, it seems so long ago. Please come back soon.

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I installed an OpenID plugin on my blog tonight — partly to combat spam but partly just to play around with it a bit and see what all the fuss is about. The plugin screwed up some of my fancy new ‘themery’ (not that you RSS folks care) so I opted to leave it turned […]

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It is fun to dream about a time when keyboards and mice are but quaint relics of a bygone era. It wasn’t until I watched the following video that I really realized that we’re not all that far from entering into a Minority Report-like era. How will tactile interfaces change libraries?

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IEEE has a really cool article on Blake Ross, a.k.a. The Firefox Kid. Ross is fascinating on a number of levels, not withstanding the fact that he was literally a kid when he started work on the hugely popular Firefox project (which is a browser many of us can’t imagine going without now). But […]

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I was playing around a bit with Second Life a few nights agot. Kenton had also logged in and the two of us (and our lurking spouses) spent the better part of an hour stumbling around, teleporting here and there, awkwardly banging into things as we attempted to move, and mostly just gawking around like […]

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For an example, see Flickr and this posting. Agreed. This is just the tip of the iceberg.

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