If you haven’t, and you build/develop web sites as (a part of) your job, you really should take the ALA 2008 survey:
In a very interesting post on Techdirt, Michael Masnick attacks the oft-(ab)used “Brain Surgery” argument used by Wikipedia-haters. It goes something like this: “If you needed brain surgery, would you trust someone who was trained as a brain surgeon, or someone who learned brain surgery from Wikipedia?” An alternative version of the question is “would [...]
Adam Darowski has a very interesting post up on his blog (link) on using the URL as a direct-access user interface. I completely agree with what he’s saying, I use the described way of URL hacking as well to see if I can access other parts of a website, but I’m often foiled by completely [...]
I’ve been using Bloglines for a long time, but as of yesterday I switched to Google Reader (thanks to a tip from my friend Moqub). Both are web-based RSS feed readers, and they do mainly the same thing, but still I like Google Reader better. Here’s a short comparison as to the why: Google Reader [...]