Archive for the ‘Newspapers’ Category
Friday, July 31st, 2009
Spurred on by positive reaction to my recent article on metadata, I did more digging in Twitter, and came across this interesting tweet from Christian Science Monitor librarian Leigh Montgomery (@CSMLibrary):
#Journalism future? 'It's in the data.' #Metadata, that is - makes the #news last, rather than a perishable commodity http://tr.im/lmetadata
9:52 ...
Posted in Libraries, Metadata, Newspapers, PicsNo, Publishing, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Adam Hodgkin, in Google Pictures and Google Books, wonders why Google has chosen to put Prado paintings in Google Earth rather than in Google Images. In December I asked a similar question about Google's putting Life Magazine pictures in Google Images, but putting other picture-laden magazines in Google Books. And, ...
Posted in Google, Google Book Search, Image Search, Magazines, Newspapers, PicsNo, Uncategorized | No Comments »
Friday, September 26th, 2008
Maps and newspapers, because they're rich in graphic information, benefit greatly from a zooming and panning interface. Text-only books, because they're more linear and because text is easily searchable, don't benefit from this sort of interface as much, but books with pictures certainly do.
zKimmer.com has recently implemented Google Maps technology ...
Posted in Google, Google Book Search, Magazines, Maps, Navigation, Newspapers, PicsYes, Uncategorized, Zooming & panning, eBooks | 2 Comments »
Friday, September 12th, 2008
Google recently announced the launch of Google Newspapers. The first issue (and apparently the only one up currently) is the 1969 We're on the moon edition of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
What caught my attention here is the ability to pan -- to move around on the large newspaper page with the ...
Posted in Google, Navigation, Newspapers, PicsYes, Uncategorized, Zooming & panning | 2 Comments »
