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Category Archives: Web 2.Oh Really?
Amazon Meets the FAIL Whale
So, this whole Amazonfail thing is pretty wacky. For those of you not emersed in the Internet, the short version goes like this: A bunch of LGBT/feminist and sex ed books listed on Amazon were reclasified as “adult” and omitted … Continue reading
Posted in Books, By the Power of the Interweb!, Technology, That from a long way off look like flies, Web 2.Oh Really?
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Call Me SparticusLover626
I’ve been using Twitter and Facebook for a few months now and my general assessment is that these tools are useful for now. That’s about as good as it gets when evaluating technology, especially web apps that are doomed to … Continue reading
Writing Software
I’ve been having problems finding a good, reliable open source word processing program. MS Office is a bloated piece of crap, so naturally it’s the industry standard, even if you have to rejigger the preferences as it was not intended … Continue reading
Posted in Open Source, Technology, Web 2.Oh Really?, Writing
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Not-So-Balanced Libraries
Previously on The Invisible Library: After discovering that a two year old blog post of mine had been citied in a book on how to make libraries work better in the web 2.0 world, I wondered aloud about the context … Continue reading
Hay You Kids, Get On My Lawn!
Stephen Fry on the much vaunted Web 2.0 and it’s Social Networking Voodoo: I am old enough to remember Prestel and the original bulletin boards and “commercial online services” Prodigy, CompuServe and America Online. These were closed communities. You paid … Continue reading