Early adopters, Web services, and viral agents

A post on Eszter's Blog about vanity license plates got me thinking about something completely different.
I read her blog in Omea reader. It is a bit much since it wants to be your feed reader, news reader and mail and browser all in one, and I just use it to read rss posts. Anyway, when I read the blog, the "Bookmark and share this post" icons are formatted in an unnumbered vertical list, so I noticed them more than if I was reading your blog from its native site. I wonder, in this nascent stage of web services, linking utilities, and folksonomies, are early adopters diligently posting to del.icio.us, reddit, digg, furl, spurl, etc. in order to proliferate or populate their favorite service? If so, are eager users becoming "viral marketing" agents?

test your bandwidth (and it looks cool too!)

The site allows you to select servers to ping from around the country on an interactive map and graphically displays connections as they travel with varying speeds along the way. It also lets you store results of tests for your computer and sort them by date, time, speed and distance.



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Eric Staller's "ConferenceBike"

I couldn't resist posting this link to the conferencebike quicktime movie. It is a miraculous invention and a charming movie
From the site: "CONFERENCEBIKE, 1996 - present: We live in an age of mobility and convenience. Our technology, our cars and laptops and cellphones, are insulating us more and more. The CONFERENCEBIKE is an antidote, a symbol and a tool for coming together: where the boardroom meets the gym, takes a ride in the park and says YES! to life."

wikibooks

I knew Wikipedia was a phenomenal resource, but recently I discovered Wikibooks, "a collection of free, open-content textbooks that you can edit."

instant video teaching tool!

not me of course, but the first sensible one I've looked at.

A quick and dirty Castro Bibliography

1	Castro, Fidel, 1926-	Fidel : Hollywood's favorite tyrant / Humberto Fontova.	2005
	Library Location: Daley Library - Book Stacks Call Number: F1788.22.C3 F66 2005
2	Castro, Fidel, 1926-	Cuba after Castro : legacies, challenges, and impediments. Appendices / Edward Gonzalez, Kevin F. McCarthy.	2004
	Library Location: Daley Library - Book Stacks Call Number: F1788 .G58823 2004b
3	Castro, Fidel, 1926-	Fidel Castro : a biography / Thomas M. Leonard.	2004
	Library Location: Daley Library - Book Stacks Call Number: F1788.22.C3 L46 2004
4	Castro, Fidel, 1926-	Cuba confidential [electronic resource] : love and vengeance in Miami and Havana / Ann Louise Bardach.	2003
	Library Location: Electronic Collections Call Number: E183.8.C9 B35 2003eb Click for details
5	Castro, Fidel, 1926-	Real Fidel Castro / Leycester Coltman ; with a foreword by Julia E. Sweig.	2003
	Library Location: Daley Library - Book Stacks Call Number: F1788.22.C3 C59 2003
6	Castro, Fidel, 1926-	Inside the Cuban Revolution : Fidel Castro and the urban underground / Julia E. Sweig.	2002
	Library Location: Daley Library - Book Stacks Call Number: F1787.5 .S96 2002
7	Castro, Fidel, 1926-	Fascell on Cuba : selected speeches and statements on the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, and U.S.-Cuban relations / edited by Jaime Suchlicki ; with a foreword by Bob Graham.	2001
	Library Location: Daley Library - Book Stacks Call Number: E183.8.C9 F373 2001
8	Castro, Fidel, 1926-	Fidel Castro : kidnaper : public meeting of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, second session, September 20, 2000.	2001
	Library Location: Daley Library - Documents/3rd floor Call Number: Y 4.F 76/2: S.HRG.106-870
9	Castro, Fidel, 1926-	Fidel Castro [videorecording] : big man, small island.	2001	Film / Video
	Library Location: Daley Library - Reserve Desk/1st floor Call Number:
10	Castro, Fidel, 1926-	Fidel Castro / Clive Foss.	2000
	Library Location: Daley Library - Book Stacks Call Number: F1788.22.C3 F67 2000
11	Castro, Fidel, 1926-	Castro and the Cuban Revolution / Thomas M. Leonard.	1999
	Library Location: Daley Library - Book Stacks Call Number: F1788 .L388 1999
12	Castro, Fidel, 1926-	Castro's daughter : an exile's memoir of Cuba / Alina Fernández ; translated by Dolores M. Koch.	1998
	Library Location: Daley Library - Book Stacks Call Number: F1788.22.F47 A3 1998
13	Castro, Fidel, 1926-	Vendetta! : Fidel Castro and the Kennedy brothers / William B. Breuer.	1997
	Library Location: Daley Library - Book Stacks Call Number: E183.8.C9 B76 1997
14	Castro, Fidel, 1926-	Castro : comienza la revolución / Enrique Meneses.	1995
	Library Location: Daley Library - Book Stacks Call Number: F1788.22.C3 M39 1995
15	Castro, Fidel, 1926-	Castro / Sebastian Balfour.	1995
	Library Location: Daley Library - Book Stacks Call Number: F1788.22.C3 B35 1995
16	Castro, Fidel, 1926-	Contesting Castro : the United States and the triumph of the Cuban Revolution / Thomas G. Paterson.	1994
	Library Location: Daley Library - Book Stacks Call Number: E183.8.C9 P36 1994
17	Castro, Fidel, 1926-	Covering Castro : rise and decline of Cuba's communist dictator / Jay Mallin Sr.	1994
	Library Location: Daley Library - Book Stacks Call Number: F1788.22.C3 M25 1994
18	Castro, Fidel, 1926-	Fidel! : Castro's political and social thought / Sheldon B. Liss.	1994
	Library Location: Daley Library - Book Stacks Call Number: F1788.22.C3 L57 1994
19	Castro, Fidel, 1926-	Fidel Castro / by Robert E. Quirk.	1993
	Library Location: Daley Library - Book Stacks Call Number: F1788.22.C3 Q57 1993
20	Castro, Fidel, 1926-	Castro's final hour : the secret story behind the coming downfall of communist Cuba / Andres Oppenheimer.	1992
	Library Location: Daley Library - Book Stacks Call Number: F1788 .O66 1992
21	Castro, Fidel, 1926-	Tiger and the children : Fidel Castro and the judgment of history / Roberto Luque Escalona ; translated by Manuel A. Tellechea.	1992
	Library Location: Daley Library - Book Stacks Call Number: F1786 .L9613 1992
22	Castro, Fidel, 1926-	Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution : age, position, character, destiny, personality, and ambition / Carlos Alberto Montaner.	1989
	Library Location: Daley Library - Book Stacks Call Number: F1788 .M573 1989
23	Castro, Fidel, 1926-	Castro, the Blacks, and Africa / Carlos Moore.	1988
	Library Location: Daley Library - Book Stacks Call Number: F1788.22.C3 M66 1988
24	Castro, Fidel, 1926-	Closest of enemies : a personal and diplomatic account of U.S.-Cuban relations since 1957 / by Wayne S. Smith.	1987
	Library Location: Daley Library - Book Stacks Call Number: E183.8.C9 S64 1987
25	Castro, Fidel, 1926-	Fidel : a biography of Fidel Castro / Peter G. Bourne.	1986
	Library Location: Daley Library - Book Stacks Call Number: F1788.22.C3 B68 1986
26	Castro, Fidel, 1926-	Fidel, a critical portrait / Tad Szulc.	1986
	Library Location: Daley Library - Book Stacks Call Number: F1788.22.C3 S98 1986
27	Castro, Fidel, 1926-	Cuba, Castro, and the Caribbean : the Cuban revolution and the crisis in Western conscience / Carlos Alberto Montaner ; translated by Nelson Duran.	1985
	Library Location: Daley Library - Book Stacks Call Number: F1788.2 .M66 1985
28	Castro, Fidel, 1926-	Fidel Castro y la revolución cubana / Carlos Alberto Montaner.	1984
	Library Location: Daley Library - Book Stacks Call Number: F1788 .M574 1984
29	Castro, Fidel, 1926-	Secret report on the Cuban revolution / Carlos Alberto Montaner ; translated by Eduardo Zayas-Bazan.	1981
	Library Location: Daley Library - Book Stacks Call Number: F1788 .M57513
30	Castro, Fidel, 1926-	Taming of Fidel Castro / Maurice Halperin.	1981
	Library Location: Daley Library - Book Stacks Call Number: F1788 .H26
31	Castro, Fidel, 1926-	Early Fidel : roots of Castro's communism / by Lionel Martin.	1978
	Library Location: Daley Library - Book Stacks Call Number: F1788.22.C3 M27 1978
32	Castro, Fidel, 1926-	Cuba under Castro : the limits of charisma / Edward Gonzalez.	1974
	Library Location: Daley Library - Special Collections/3rd floor (non-circ.) Call Number: F1788 .G589 1974
33	Castro, Fidel, 1926-	Rise and decline of Fidel Castro; an essay in contemporary history.	1972
	Library Location: Daley Library - Book Stacks Call Number: F1788 .H27
34	Castro, Fidel, 1926-	Castro: a political biography, by Herbert L. Matthews.	1969
	Library Location: Daley Library - Book Stacks Call Number: F1788.22.C3 M3
35	Castro, Fidel, 1926-	Fidel Castro, by Herbert L. Matthews.	1969
	Library Location: Daley Library - Book Stacks Call Number: F1788.22.C3 M32
36	Castro, Fidel, 1926-	Cuba: anatomy of a revolution [by] Leo Huberman [and] Paul M. Sweezy.	1968
	Library Location: Daley Library - Book Stacks Call Number: F1788 .H8 1968
37	Castro, Fidel, 1926-	Fidel Castro. Translated by J. Halcro Ferguson.	1968
	Library Location: Daley Library - Book Stacks Call Number: F1788.22.C3 M413 1968b
38	Castro, Fidel, 1926-	Castro's Cuba, Cuba's Fidel; an American journalist's inside look at today's Cuba in text and picture.	1967
	Multiple holdings. Click title for details.
39	Castro, Fidel, 1926-	Communist activities in Latin America 1967 : report / of the Subcommittee on Inter-American Affairs, of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, pursuant to H. Res. 179, a resolution authorizing the Committee on Foreign Affairs to condu	1967
	Library Location: Daley Library - Documents/3rd floor Call Number: Y 4.F 76/1:C 73/6L1967
40	Castro, Fidel, 1926-	Cuba: Castroism and communism, 1959-1966. With a foreword by Ernst Halperin. Translated by Joel Carmichael and Ernst Halperin.	1967
	Library Location: Daley Library - Book Stacks Call Number: F1788 .S8813
41	Castro, Fidel, 1926-	Eye on Cuba.	1966
	Library Location: Daley Library - Book Stacks Call Number: F1788 .T46
42	Castro, Fidel, 1926-	My 14 months with Castro.	1966
	Library Location: Daley Library - Book Stacks Call Number: F1788.C3 L6
43	Castro, Fidel, 1926-	Castrisme, communisme, démocratie chrétienne en Amérique latine.	1965
	Library Location: Daley Library - Book Stacks Call Number: F1788 .S315
44	Castro, Fidel, 1926-	Castroism, theory and practice.	1965
	Library Location: Daley Library - Book Stacks Call Number: F1788 .D68
45	Castro, Fidel, 1926-	Fidel Castro's political programs from reformism to Marxism- Leninism [by] Loree Wilkerson.	1965
	Library Location: Daley Library - Book Stacks Call Number: F1788.C3 W55
46	Castro, Fidel, 1926-	Castro's revolution, myths and realities.	1962
	Library Location: Daley Library - Book Stacks Call Number: F1788 .D69
47	Castro, Fidel, 1926-	United States, Cuba, and Castro; an essay on the dynamics of revolution and the dissolution of empire.	1962
	Library Location: Daley Library - Book Stacks Call Number: E183.8.C9 W5
48	Castro, Fidel, 1926-	Cuba: anatomy of a revolution [by] Leo Huberman [and] Paul M. Sweezy.	1961
	Library Location: Daley Library - Book Stacks Call Number: F1788 .H8 1961
49	Castro, Fidel, 1926-	Cuba and Castro. Translated from the Spanish by Elmer Grossberg.	1961
	Library Location: Daley Library - Book Stacks Call Number: F1788 .C323
50	Castro, Fidel, 1926-	M-26; biography of a revolution.	1961
	Library Location: Daley Library - Book Stacks Call Number: F1788 .T3

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Steve Brantley