Archive for August, 2009
Monday, August 31st, 2009
Steve Pociask wrote an article in Forbes last week, Google's One Million Books, on the Google Book Search Settlement. There's been a lot of commentary about GBS recently, as the October Settlement hearing approaches, and I was doubtful that tweeting this article with it's forgettable title would get much attention. ...
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Friday, August 28th, 2009
The list below is 50 consecutive random links to Wikipedia articles using the Random Article link that's in all articles. As suggested in a recent study by Kittur, Chi & Suh (discussed below) I've divided these random articles into the top level Wikipedia categories. More interesting than these categories are ...
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Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
Marginalia -- writing notes in the margins of books -- is not an exact fit for digital books. But the concept has been getting bantered about in a metaphorical sense to denote any kind of user annotation in digital texts. In my June article on Cathy Marshall's studies of user ...
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Friday, August 7th, 2009
Mark Rabnett, in his article Five ways to improve PubMed says what many medical librarians are no doubt thinking. The Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) system, used by the National Library of Medicine to index articles in PubMed/Medline, is certainly one of the best indexing systems in the world. Unfortunately the ...
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Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
Kevin Kelly's long NY Times article in 2006 on Google Book Search has some elegant words on the transformative effect of digital books in general, beyond GBS. I'll precede excerpts from Kelly with bits from some of my recent articles, which resonate in interesting ways.
Kelly's comments parallel the static print ...
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