Twilight Fans are you paying attention?  Are you? Stephanie Meyer has published a short story called The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner and you can read it NOW!  for FREE!!!!  You can read it on this site for free from June 7th to July 5th.  You can only read it there and you cannot [...]

If you’re like me then you’re all new to in’s and out’s of the World Wide Web Land.  So this is my first year knowing much of anything of the annual  Webby Awards.   The Webbys are an  international award  that honors excellence on the Internet. The Webby Awards presents two honors in every category [...]

Have you heard about the latest craze hitting the Internet?  I hadn’t until a day ago and I decided I had to try it out.  ChatRoulette is sort of like a game of Roulette in the idea that you are taking a chance in who you might get to video chat with.  When you first [...]

Portalbella is a website that allows you to create your own internet homepage! I love doing things like this, anything to personalize my lil mac, I’ll do it!
You can add your favorite links for easy to click buttons and chose a color and picture to add.
It’s so much fun! go to Portalbella and personalize your [...]

For those not spending all their time on Twitter.com….Against the Grain Blog has been entered into the Shorty Awards.  These are awards are decided mainly by your twitter votes so please take a minute and show us some love.  We’d like to have a good showing!  For now we are nominated in the #news category.
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Today I was shown these two videos regarding how technology is affecting the world and the incredible speed in which information is now exchanged.  Personally some of it I find quite alarming.  I’m all for growth but at times I do not think we all can keep up.  There are two and the second is [...]

Yesterday in class our professor was teaching us about using “tags” on the Internet and how this feeds search engines.  I’m not going to try and explain it but instead watch this video.  First it teaches you something quite useful about using the Internet and two it’s quite cleverly edited and shot.  Plus it’s made [...]

Google’s iconic symbol is known around the world and for special occasions, like St. Patrick’s Day or Earth Day or Election day they have designs that cater to that event.

From now until MAY 18th you can vote for finalists in the “Doodle 4 Google” challenge. Students in k-12 across the United States entered their class’ [...]

That’s Fun For Work- for all you now hip peeps.

I find myself day after day in a job that I hate, doing work that I know I won’t be doing in a year. So, In order to keep my sanity I bless myself with minor distractions throughout the day. I say minor because I can [...]

I’ll tell ya, it’s getting harder and harder for me to still say ” I Love Facebook!”.
On, I’ll admit a not-so-reputable news source, www.defamer.com they have revealed that facebook is posting bogus “get rich quick” scheme advertisements on their pages. They, and C$O  Mark Zuckerberg say that “The ads are isolated incidents which go offline [...]