Works for me…
This blogging thing is really starting to work for me – no, I’m not talking so much about my own attempts at sharing my inner-most thoughts and insights with the …
Read MoreThe downside of collaborative filtering
Yesterday’s San Jose Mercury News carried an article on recommending systems and collaborative filtering. (You can get the article, actually from the Los Angeles Times, here although you may need …
Read MoreIt’s a sorry frog that don’t praise its own pond
Libraries, archives and museums today all have the common responsibility of managing digital information. Whether its born or reborn digital stuff, seeing it through its life cycle involves capturing, naming, …
Read MoreThe hills are alive…
Indoor plumbing. Co-ed housing arrangements. Vending machines. Internet access. Music downloading and file swapping. What are considered the “basics” for American college undergrads are being redefined yet again. On Thursday, …
Read MoreIndustrious
Over the last couple of years, I’ve had various experiences of interacting with the people from the other side of the fence – they’re usually called vendors, manufacturers, or “the …
Read MoreGoogle Blog Search
You knew it was coming. Google Blog Search. Here’s a prepopulated search, if you can’t think of your own. The advanced search is pretty interesting, and takes advantage of some …
Read Morebetter than a red wheel barrow
The receipt of the following haiku was sufficiently serendipitous, satisfying and apt that I want to share it. a blonde girl, wearing a pink skirt, on a blue bike, willed …
Read MoreWhat the neighbors are up to
This isn’t brand-new anymore (it got published on August 31st), but it’s still funny – the Onion headlines “Google Announces Plan to Destroy All Information It Can’t Index.” “Our users …
Read Moreyou’re so not a book
As a “friend of UCAI,” I was recently informed that the project to create a Union Catalog of Art Images won’t continue past its research and development stage to spawn …
Read MoreHeroes and Villains
I very recently returned from attending the Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting in New Orleans feeling very happy about seeing colleagues, contributing to the profession, learning about some great …
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