A summer Monday and a holiday here in Canada. If you’re looking for some fascinating reading, check out this week’s link roundup.
- Life Advice From Old People: Actor/writer Seth Menachem records video interviews of old people in his neighborhood and posts them to his blog. Thanks to Larry Lehmer for alerting me to this.
- Canadian Roots UK: “…a non-profit, self-help group for families and Canadian military fathers separated during WWII. We help members to help themselves try and trace their fathers in Canada.”
- Lost and Found Photos: “This site contains links, audio, images, video, and text related to the practices and perceptions surrounding lost and found vernacular photographs.”
- Every business needs a ’secret sauce’ : “[Paul]Taylor, who lives in North Vancouver .., recently launched a community Web site, arcalife.com, that aims to preserve family legacies by storing life experiences, events, stories, family trees, family histories or genealogy research all in one place.”
- iPhone Document Scanner: “Kyle A. Koch is an industrial design student…[He]set out to make something that would ensure clean, consistent pictures of documents taken with the iPhone.” Price: US$45.
- Nova Scotia Man Accidentally Discovers Family History Scanned Into Google Books, Asks for It to Be Removed: “..the Halifax man only discovered his book was in the Google archive when he was doing an Internet search in May.”
- Oh heck, I’ll just publish it myself: “Technology – and tenacity – are making self-published titles the hottest new sector of the book market.”
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