Library 2.0
Google is really good at illustrating the “echo chamber” effect that certain clusters of blogs create for one another. A set of search results contains many links that point back… Read more »
Google is really good at illustrating the “echo chamber” effect that certain clusters of blogs create for one another. A set of search results contains many links that point back… Read more »
I’m not sure why I get this newsletter in my email from time to time, but it’s always an interesting read. Some might call it quirky—and the writing style and… Read more »
Nature (Number 438, 900-901 (15 December 2005) | doi:10.1038/438900a) has an interesting article comparing the frequency of errors in both Wikipedia and Britannica—the error rate is similar. Basically, 42 entries… Read more »
Last week I posted an entry on a fix for the stealth timeout in our Voyager catalog. This is just a short update to say that while it seemed to… Read more »
Ever since I saw Jeffrey Zeldman’s comment on tag clouds (“Tag Clouds Are The New Mullets“), I’ve been interested in getting one. A tag cloud? No a mullet (just kidding)…. Read more »
About three weeks ago I began doing a test install of the Internet Scout Portal Toolkit (in the coming months we need to begin building a research portal and this… Read more »
Came across a new organization today, The Open Content Alliance. I didn’t immediately realize that this was connected to the news stories I heard yesterday about Yahoo!’s entry into the… Read more »
Was asked the other day by a librarian if it was possible to pull an RSS newsfeed in from some other site for a web page she was working on…. Read more »
Thanks to Dorothea’s skill with a CSS chisel, we have a very new look for our MARS site. We’re now running release 1.3.1 with what I call the “Salo Effect”… Read more »
The other day I moved our EZProxy server application to the HP Proliant box described in an earlier post. EZProxy put such a small load on the machine I began… Read more »