Google gets smarter…again
I noticed something new (to me) in Google over coffee this morning. I was at a party over the weekend, and met a dog with so much personality that I …
Read MoreWatch this space: ArchiveGrid is coming to town
Archivists and researchers will be interested to know that the refashioned Archival Resources will make its debut in early 2006 as ArchiveGrid.org. RLG has long been supportive of the unique …
Read MoreMore museum blogs
I recently had contact with a writer from the Wall Street Journal who researched a story on blogs in museums (Jennifer Trant had been kind enough to mention my name …
Read MoreClay Shirky @ Long Now, and Flickr rant
I attended Clay Shirky’s talk part of the Long Now’s Seminars on Long Term Thinking (or SALT) series. The talk was well attended (at least 200 people), and the crowd …
Read MoreDon’t quit your day-job!
How can you possibly top the riveting reports on the >play Digital Media conference by Jim & Anne? Well, the blog has to go on, and while I can’t promise …
Read MoreConsuming in a pretend universe
Copyright 2005, Linden Research, Inc. All Rights Reserved. At the >play Digital Media conference in Berkeley there were separate panels to choose. I followed the video game people – something …
Read Moreworking in a consolidated universe
In her post about the >play Digital Media conference Anne mentioned the keynote by Shantanu Narayen, COO of Adobe. For me the most interesting thing to contemplate is the likely …
Read Moreplaying in a parallel universe
This past Saturday I had the privilege of attending >play: Berkeley Digital Media Conference created by the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. The major sponsors of the event …
Read MoreUsing up our words…
I attended the Association of Research Libraries membership meeting last week and stayed on for a forum titled Managing Digital Assets: Strategic Issues for Research Libraries that ARL co-sponsored with …
Read MoreBrewster profiled
Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive was profiled in Sunday’s San Jose Mercury News. The online version of the article does not include “five things to know about Brewster Kahle.” …
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