Category Archives: Web 2.Oh Really?

Amazon Meets the FAIL Whale

Posted on Monday, April 13, 2009 by Keith

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 →

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Call Me SparticusLover626

Posted on Monday, March 23, 2009 by Keith

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 →

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Writing Software

Posted on Sunday, October 19, 2008 by Keith

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 →

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It’s All Very Technical

Posted on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 by Keith

I usually refrain from discussing work or job-related things on the blog, but I have to share the good news: having been unemployed for less than a month, I have a new job! Starting August 4, I will be head … Continue reading →

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Not-So-Balanced Libraries

Posted on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 by Keith

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 →

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Hay You Kids, Get On My Lawn!

Posted on Saturday, January 12, 2008 by Keith

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 →

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