Archive for the ‘PicsYes’ Category
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
As so often happens, there are gems far down in Mike Cane's blog article (Dumb eBooks Must Die, Smart eBooks Must Live) that deserve more prominence. Cane says the real potential of eBooks will only be realized (attained) when the "hidden" metadata content is brought out (Boldface added):
All of this ...
Posted in Google Book Search, Libraries, Metadata, PicsYes, The Stream, Uncategorized, eBooks | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
The recently announced addition of thumbnail navigation to Google Book Search is, unfortunately, only available for full-view. But all magazines in GBS are full-view, so thumbnails are especially useful for them, since [because] they have so many pictures. To use thumnails, go to Read this Magazine (or Book), and click ...
Posted in Google Book Search, Magazines, PicsYes, Thumbnails, Uncategorized | No Comments »
Monday, June 15th, 2009
A recent Wired article (Why E-Books Are Stuck in a Black-and-White World) has a good chart comparing four leading E-reader displays (E-Ink, Kent Displays, Pixel Qi, and Qualcomm). The chart appears far down in the article, though, and I suspect it was missed by many readers, so to make it ...
Posted in Color, PicsYes, Uncategorized, eBooks | No Comments »
Monday, June 8th, 2009
Clive Thompson, in his recent comments on how crowdsourcing has the potential to transform eBooks, refers to a a rudimentary form of crowdsourcing that's already being studied in print textbooks. The work he's referring to is by Cathy Marshall, who finds that used-book-buyers place value in the annotations (highlighting and ...
Posted in Marginalia, PicsYes, Uncategorized, eBooks | No Comments »
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 »
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 »
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 ...
Posted in Flickr, PicsYes, Uncategorized, Visualization, flu | No Comments »
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Poking around in Google Similar Images, I've found examples that give indications of how the system works. I've put several of these together in a Flickr set, from which the example below is taken.
The top image in each of the pairs below ("Full size image") is a choice from the ...
Posted in Flickr, Google, Image Search, PicsYes, Uncategorized, eBooks | 5 Comments »
