Archive for the ‘Google’ Category
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
This is a subset of my list that has all titles as of November, 2009, when Google announced that they would provide their own list. The titles below are my subjective picks, based on generality of interest and/or length of availability.
American Motorcyclist, Feb 1955 – July 2005
Backpacker, Spring 1973 – ...
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Friday, November 6th, 2009
I love serendipity -- I happened to see these two pieces on the same day recently, and couldn't help putting them together. Is there a meaning somewhere here? ....
Information on the Internet That Should Go Away, Roy Tennant
This is the kind of information I wish would disappear: old, outdated, in ...
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
The recent controversy about the Google Book Search Settlement seems to have taken up peoples' Google-watching attention so much that advances in the way GBS actually works have been getting overlooked. Several notable improvements were made during the summer, for example, that got very little recognition. Another change that seems ...
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
Many possible takes on this picture. What comes to my mind first is the idea of the Attention Economy --The idea that in the days of the traditional library, before the Internet, information was a limited resource. Libraries could afford to work under the assumption that "we've got the good ...
Posted in Google, Libraries, Library Catalog, PicsYes, Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
Google Health OneBox is a boost for NLM's MedlinePlus -- As discussed previously, though, a few tweaks could make it an even bigger boost. A problem not discussed in the previous article is the "MedlinePlus" name -- It has little user recognition, and therefore gets considerably less traffic than it ...
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Thursday, October 15th, 2009
In August, Google launched Google Health OneBox (left). This puts the National Library of Medicine's Medline Plus right at the top of the search results, and is potentially a valuable new source of traffic for NLM.
There are factors, however, that work against MLP -- The three prominent links on the ...
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Thursday, October 15th, 2009
[This article accompanies previous article: Tagging in Hardin MD]
Soon after the launching of Hardin MD, in 1996, we began adding keywords in the hidden META keyword field (The first pages for HMD in Internet Archive [Dec, 1998] show them on all pages checked.) We began checking to see if HMD ...
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Friday, September 25th, 2009
All Hardin MD (HMD) pages have tags at the bottom, to make them more visible for search engines i.e. Google. We have been doing tagging in HMD since 2000, and it works very well. As shown in the example to the left, the tags are for variant spellings (measels), ...
Posted in Google, Hardin MD, Library Catalog, Metadata, PicsYes, Uncategorized | 5 Comments »
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
This is excerpts from part 2 of Michael Nielsen's seminal and long article, Is scientific publishing about to be disrupted?. Part 1 of Nielsen's article is a general consideration of how industries fail, with particular discussion of the newspaper industry and blogs. Part 2 is the heart of Nielsen's case ...
Posted in Google, Journals, PicsNo, Publishing, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
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 »
