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Using Information Technology for PSAs

go watch this:


Yeh Hum Naheen (We are not that)
The song was the brainchild of Waseem Mahmood whose children asked him to do something about the rising radicalization of Islam -something they as young Muslims did not feel that represented the religion that they were brought up to believe in. They wanted to get a message to young Pakistanis like themselves that all that was happening around them in the name of Islam was not them - thus the song was born.

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Interesting, Scary and Hilarious

The Toronto Public Health Department has just used facebook to track down a woman who needed a rabies shot after dealing with a rabid bat.

Interesting? Yes, because technology is clearly providing crazy new ways for us to interact with eachother and find information to help people.

Scary? Indeed, because "the Man," as it were, can apparently track you down quite easily. This undermines the idea of internet anonymity because it means that people are able to go from your virtual identity to your front door in fewer than three weeks.

Hilarious? Obviously. The woman from the Health Department's last name is Crapper.

"NARA has the right to determine whether sweaters. . . are considered outerwear."

Things I did not know when I woke up this morning: sweaters with full length zippers are not allowed at the National Archives in D.C.

Apparently, you will kill the paper.

This would not be allowed:

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Thomas King, Bottled Water and Social Justice, Oh My

Thomas King, Bottled Water and Social Justice

P.S. I might be going to make fun, too.

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Baseball Games and White Russians and Information Technology, Oh My

So, inspired by the more verbose and thorough efforts of my classmates, I will endeavor to introduce the point of this Blog, and then introduce what I believe to be an interesting piece of information technology.

This blog is an attempt to navigate and master the information technology know colloquially as "Blogging" within the context of FIS1311, Information Technology Applications at the Faculty of Information Studies. This class will (hopefully) result in my becoming less ignorant of the ways of the IT crowd. Reading this blog will hopefully help *you* become less ignorant of the ways of the IT crowd, as least as far as my understanding of them filtered through their web presences goes.

With this in mind, I introduce Library Thing.. Perhaps one of the coolest/most nerdy websites I have seen in a while. You can catalog your own books (woo!) and show your friends what you have, and find similarly literate people. A literati take on e-community building.

and it begins

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