Sorry I couldn’t resist.
I’m sure you remember the Nature/Britannica debate back in December of 2005 and March of this year. If you don’t you can read about it here and here.
Well yesterday Tom at Tombrarian posted a link to the response from Nature to Britannica’s claims that their article was not written [...]

I haven’t finished reading yet - but I can tell this is going to be a good article. Take a look at The Hive published in The Atlantic Monthly. It’s an article about Wikipedia and its history.

WOW! Connie Crosby did a great job with this week’s carnival. I know I haven’t been posting about the carnival lately, but I do keep up with it and if you don’t you should at least check out Connie’s colorful post.

That’s right I can admit I don’t know everything there is to know about HTML.
That doesn’t stop me from being a little ashamed to admit that I just read about 5 HTML elements I hadn’t used (or heard of) before on the SEOmoz Blog.
My favorites? <acronym> & <optgroup> - I have to go find [...]

I just found a list of learning resources on LifeHacker that I wanted to share with you all:

Free audio and video from LearnOutLoud
Get free e-textbooks from Textbook Revolution
Find free courses with OpenCourseWare Finder
Free classes from MIT
Get free webcasts from Berkeley

There are more on their list at: Free educational resources roundup and under their learning tag.
There [...]

Guardian Unlimited has a great article about the 15 sites that have changed the world. #1 is Ebay! Google doesn’t appear on the list until #13. Check it out.
[read about on Download Squad]

That’s right - it went backwards - from Blogger to Blogger Beta. Okay, enough silliness - Google released a new version of Blogger yesterday (hence the beta). I was going to go play with my puppy blog to see how the new features work out - but it turns out you can’t use [...]

Wired News has an article about Wiki.com.
Launched over the weekend, Wiki.com joins the already populous field of do-it-yourself wiki sites, which allow anyone to add and edit content on a specified topic.
In its first day live, visitors have been snapping up subdomains with topical words, like soccer.wiki.com, or common first names.
Currently, anyone can register a [...]

Well, what isn’t?? An online friend of mine sent me a link last week that talked about how subscribing to RSS feeds could be a security risk - today I found a similar article on News.com.
Attackers could exploit the problem by setting up a malicious blog and enticing a user to subscribe to the [...]

You may have heard this already, but Dell is recalling batteries that have been overheating and setting laptops on fire. I have one of the potentially affected laptops - but I haven’t turned it off to check the battery yet
Learn more about this recall and share it with your friends and family [...]

As you know I have finally signed up for FeedBurner - but why the change? Well I was getting a little annoyed with depending on Bloglines to tell me how many subscribers I have. Bloglines was telling me that I had something like 28 subscribers - After 2 days FeedBurner says I have 79 [...]

Okay I give - how the heck do you get a little icon to appear next to your feed in a reader like Bloglines? I looked at a bunch of people’s RSS feeds today and could not see anything there that I didn’t have in my feed. I have a favicon set up for [...]

I know you’ve all been subscribed for a while - but I’ve finally signed up for FeedBurner and I’d love it if you all used my FeedBurner link to subscribe. Thanks in advance!

I just read on LibrarianInBlack about a list of Extentions specifically for Web programmers. I have some of them, but I did find some new tools. The one I was most excited about was Screen Grab, but its not compatible with the newest version of Firefox, so I’ll have to wait.

I just read about Stu.dicio.us on Solution Watch.
Claimed to be a social notetaking service, Stu.dicio.us allows students to publicly save organized notes, manage a class schedule, and keep up to date with tasks using a time sensitive to do list.
It sounded interesting so I went to take a look - the problem is [...]

I just read on Tombrarian that there is a discounted rate offered by Southern California Online Users Group to attend Internet Librarian. Apparently you don't have to be a member of SCOUG to get the discount, you just have to register before September 18th. Learn More.
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I am all registered for my first term at Drexel. Can you believe that registration opened at 7am this morning for new masters students and at 7:38 when I registered 5 sessions I wanted were already filled.
Why didn’t I register sooner? Well I was up this morning at 4am (lots going on [...]

I have been having problems with Bloglines since they did their maintenance the other day. My feeds keep saying there are new posts, but when I click to read I get no results. Sometime changing the “Display items within the last” to a longer timeframe will make posts show up - when that [...]

That’s right, the long awaited site from WorldCat is now live - visit WorldCat.org. I have one major complaint - there is no easy way to get back home. I keep trying to click the logo in the top left - but that doesn’t work - and there is no link to home.
Hopefully [...]

I know that there are other similar services out there - but this is the only one I’ve played with. GiftHat lets you create and share a wishlist - the best thing is that you can import your Amazon wishlist right into their database. There are a few features I’d like to see.

They [...]

Have you seen this video yet? Stephen Colbert on Wikiality. I’ve seen it mentioned too many places to give credit to everyone - but today I saw it on Information Wants to be Free.

I was listening to LibVibe on the train to work today and Marv mentioned an article that intrigued me. So, I came into work and emailed Marv to ask for the link. Now I have to share it with you all.
The quote he mentioned in his report was from an article [...]

Google now has a competing site for SourceForge - at least that’s what it sounds like to me. The new site is called Google Code - Project Hosting.
The new service from Google is a hosting environment called Project Hosting, that allows developers to upload and store any open-source project code they have in their arsenal. [...]

The folks at Meebo are offering a widget you can add to any webpage (requires flash) called meebo me.
meebo me is designed for anyone with a home on the web. If you’ve got a web page where you’d like to communicate with your visitors, meebo me allows you to see the people who are visiting [...]

I just read on Download Squad about this nifty CD.
The Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society has put together a CD with 100 free/open source application for Windows XP/2000 users. You can pay for the CD or you can download an ISO file straight from their site. The CD includes Desktop Applications, [...]