Okay, so it's not really my roomba's birthday, but it IS the 20th anniversary of irobot. irobot started out as military kind of robot proj and now, it's cleaning my floors... LOL I need a scooba though! ;-)[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf9wHkkNGUU&hl=en_US&fs=1&]Anyhow, I wandered over to the irobot site and discovered this popup "warning" (I'm still laughing, what doesn't it cover?

this is kind of nifty.. Just about the time that I was feeling that I was about to click off, it actually changed direction. So stick with it -- lots of stereotypes about 'net users and millenials (altho' never called such):[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Weq_sHxghcg&hl=en_US&fs=1&]

Interesting article about a potential project involving google, paypal, verizon and others."Open Identity Exchange (OIX) is a newly founded non-profit organization, launched today at the RSA Conference 2010 by Google, PayPal, Equifax, VeriSign, Verizon, CA and Booz Allen Hamilton. The aim of this new organization is exchange of online identity credentials across public and private sectors; in other words, it can certify online identity providers to U.S. federal standards."http://mashable.com/2010/03/03/google-paypal-oix/Hmm...

I decided to start digging out some of my old stuff that I either 1)haven't posted here before, or perhaps, 2)I posted it 5 years ago, but it is still relevant or 3) it is super popular (on twitter, on a blog, etc.) which makes me think it is worth a re-post. I promise my site is not about to become a re-hash and just like for the Question of the Day, these will have their own category and header.

So, this was MY question today: as in, I wanted to re-post a tweet about moonshine arts & literary magazine. I couldn't quite remember what I wrote and I didn't use a #hashtag. So what to do? How do you search your own twitter feed? There are lots of cool trending tools out there, but those are very limited in terms of timeframe. I personally like trendtastic.Per my usual M.O. I tweeted, buzzed, & facebook'd my request --even before I google'd, now what does that tell ya?

The buck stops at the library. If we keep cutting library aid, people who can’t figure out how to file for taxes, or how to use e-mail, are going to be out of luck.

Lots of aren't librarians cool stuff, but overall a nice piece on libraries and librarians. http://www.salon.com/books/nonfiction/index.html?story=/books/feature/2010/02/21/interview_marilyn_johnson_librarians

Covers the most basic elements of webdesign: layout, fonts, whitespace, color theory; additionally encompasses fundamental guidelines and findings regarding how users use the web.Btw, my portion is more of the design stuff. Oh, and this is a google presentation so the design of the presentation itself is a little fugly.

I kind of wondered if photo booths would become a thing of the past (sigh, polaroid...) but at least one company is trying to move them to the home market. It does make you wonder a little if anyone will buy this....http://www.partyboothapp.com/

The Pew Institute has been researching technology and various demographics. The study in January covers internet, broadband & cellphone statistics:55% of American adults connect to the internet wirelessly, either through a WiFi or WiMax connection via their laptops or through their handheld device like a smart phone. This figure did not change in a statistically significant way during 2009. The most recent study (released Feb.

This is from an article at allfacebook, but lots of chatter (Techcrunch, lots o' blogs) all over the 'net about facebook's new (or perhaps, just improved) if it's scaled off of the current private messaging (PM) feature...

According to Mike Arrington, Facebook is preparing to roll out its own email client, code named “Titan”.