Archive for May, 2009
Friday, May 29th, 2009
Just as Google Wave was announced yesterday, I was thinking of writing about the usefulness of the pictures that accompany results in Twitter Search, giving a good immediate overview of search results. I find this especially valuable in searching for Twitter users, to see how connected they are -- It's ...
Posted in Google, PicsYes, Twitter, Uncategorized, Visualization | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
Several commentors on my recent article about Salman Rushdie's imaginative foretelling of the Web have suggested that Rushdie's vision -- of a library made up of the Stream of all Stories ever told -- was influenced by Jorge Luis Borges' story The Library of Babel -- which describes the universe ...
Posted in Libraries, PicsYes, The Stream, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Friday, May 15th, 2009
In a prophetic passage written in 1990, Salman Rushdie paints a vivid word picture of the Ocean of the Streams of Story that I've suggested is an uncanny envisioning of the yet-to-be-created Web. Right now, the evolution of the Web seems to be speeding up, and two recent commentaries, one ...
Posted in PicsNo, The Stream, Uncategorized | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Nova Spivack, in his article Is The Stream What Comes After the Web? suggests that the new metaphor for the Web will be the Stream. He says that especially with advent of Twitter and microblogging, the streamlike nature of the Web has become more apparent:
Just as the Web once emerged ...
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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
When I first read the passage below in Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the sea of stories three years ago, it struck me as a remarkable word picture of my experience of the Web. So of course I went right to Google to see if anyone else had made this connection ...
Posted in Google Book Search, Libraries, PicsYes, The Stream, Uncategorized, eBooks | 2 Comments »
Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Two recent articles, one by a librarian and one by a publisher, talk of the growing realization on the part of both parties that they increasingly have common interests, as both learn how to deal with the the implications of electronic publishing -- Librarian Barbara Fister's Library Journal cover story ...
Posted in Libraries, PicsYes, Publishing, TOC, Twitter, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
Why is this not being more widely reported?! Library of Congress Inspector General Karl Shornagel's 60-page PDF report, as far as I can find, has been linked only in two short postings in non-library blogs, and in a few Twitter tweets, since Schornagel reported to the House Administration Committee on ...
Posted in Libraries, Library of Congress, PicsNo, Uncategorized | No Comments »
Friday, May 1st, 2009
With its world-wide occurence and implications, Swine Flu shows up well in Newsmap. This makes it easy to see at at glance how the news media in different countries is covering the story. The screen shots below were taken at 8:00 AM this morning.
A Flickr set has larger screenshots of ...
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Friday, May 1st, 2009
Working on Swine Flu this week has been especially interesting because it makes me reflect on how much things have changed in the information landscape since I worked on SARS in 2003 and Bird Flu in 2004-05. In those outbreaks, the main source of information was lists of links found ...
Posted in Google, PicsNo, Twitter, Uncategorized, flu | 3 Comments »
