Archive for December, 2005
Community Lists And You
December 6th, 2005I have a post on the PubSub blog about the Community Lists. If you have any feedback, please comment there. Thanks!
Nature is Blogging
December 6th, 2005Word from Nature Research Journals and Web Publishing today that they have recently launched three blogs:
1) Action Potential - “Action Potential is a blog by the editors of Nature Neuroscience - and a forum for our readers, authors and the entire neuroscience community. We’ll discuss what’s new and exciting in neuroscience, be it in our [...]
Digg Plans Expansion
December 5th, 2005The darling of the new Web is planning on adding more news categories (I’m not sure why they don’t use tags) and other media such as video and audio. From the article:
“Adelson’s hope is that the method will end up being faster and more reliable than both the wholly automated search engines, and the [...]
Uncyclopedia
December 5th, 2005Those that hate Wikipedia (well, even for those that like it) will get a kick out of Uncyclopedia:
“Upon first coming here, some people have the impression that this is not a “serious” website. Their brains then take them on a magical journey which leads them to think that anything goes here. This is simply not [...]
Beyond Google
December 4th, 2005Great quote from an op-ed:
“We’ve gotten to a point where we have to be reminded that all knowledge does not spring from Google; that true wisdom comes from the most basic human urge to understand the world around us, to see life through the eyes and voices of others. To connect. Sitting down with [...]
Librarians Should Study The Wisdom of Crowds. All Crowds
December 4th, 2005It’s no secret that my favorite books over the past year was The Wisdom of Crowds, by James Surowiecki. Stephen Abram is hopefully going to read it, and blogs:
“Are librarians experts? Do we fail to see the right path or know the correct information too often? I doubt that’s the right interpretation. We [...]
Sort My E-mail Based on Who I Know Well
December 2nd, 2005Yes, I’m a bad e-mail person (blah blah blah, you’ve heard it here before). Here comes an interesting product from Microsoft that will be able to sort e-mail by who I know well.
From the article:
“Smith boils it down this way. His computer, for all its power, serves up his e-mail without distinguishing junk mail [...]
GD Shows are Back on IA
December 1st, 2005Just checking my feeds for a bit. It seems like the Grateful Dead has reversed their decision to pull their soundboard shows from the Internet Archive. Great quote from Phil Lesh:
“We are musicians not businessmen and have made good and bad decisions on our journey. We do love and care about our community [...]