Archive for the ‘PicsNo’ Category
Friday, November 6th, 2009
John C. Abell, in his recent Wired article Steve Jobs’ Legacy Is the Missing Clue to the Apple Tablet, suggests that in the same way that he invigorated animated film with Pixar, the music industry with iTunes, and the mobile phone market with the iPhone, Jobs' next mission is to ...
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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This is the kind of information I wish would disappear: old, outdated, in ...
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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 18th, 2009
In his interesting book The Great Influenza (2004) on the 1918 Flu epidemic, John M. Barry begins by giving the background and context of 19th century medicine. He says that medicine during this time lagged behind other sciences, especially because doctors were slow to embrace the quantitative methods and tools ...
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Friday, September 11th, 2009
Marybeth Peters, head of the US Copyright Office (part of the Library of Congress), said this in her testimony before Congress yesterday:
The Copyright Office has been following the Google Library Project since 2003 with great interest. We first learned about it when Google approached the Library of Congress, seeking to ...
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
Just as I was about to compose two articles this morning on metadata problems in Google Book Search and in library catalogs ... lo and behold ... I came across science-publishing-library blogger Eric Hellman's article White Dielectric Substance in Library Metadata on much the same theme -- It has some ...
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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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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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