Archive for the ‘Twitter’ Category

Google Book Search a Hot Topic? NOT!

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Searching for talk on Google Books and the Settlement since Judge Denny Chin delayed the decision on October 7, I've been finding very little -- What had been a stream of chatter in Twitter searches has turned into a trickle. I found a little example reflecting this today that I ...

Writing to Get Retweeted: Emphasize What’s Important!

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. ...

Google Wave, Twitter, & Pictures

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 ...

Nova Spivack: The Stream of Streams has arrived

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

Nova Spivack, in his article Is The Stream What Comes After the Web? suggests that the new metaphor for the Web will be the Stream. He says that especially with advent of Twitter and microblogging, the streamlike nature of the Web has become more apparent: Just as the Web once emerged ...

Librarians & Publishers Twitter Together

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 ...

Twitter’s power to inform : Swine flu

Friday, May 1st, 2009

Working on Swine Flu this week has been especially interesting because it makes me reflect on how much things have changed in the information landscape since I worked on SARS in 2003 and Bird Flu in 2004-05. In those outbreaks, the main source of information was lists of links found ...

Google Magazines – Put New Titles in Twitter

Friday, April 10th, 2009

In Dec, 2008, Google announced that they had begun adding recent popular magazines to Google Book Search. Because Google, inexplicably, chose not to provide a list of titles that were included, I made a list of about 40 titles, and until recently I hadn't added to it, assuming that Google ...

Visualization with Twitter Venn diagrams

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

Venn diagrams have long been used in teaching online searching, to help users visualize how Boolean searching works. A new application of Venn diagrams, Twitter Venn, gives on-the-fly Venn diagrams of Twitter postings. Because Twitter does such a good job of taking the pulse of the Web, Twitter Venn is ...