There has been much discussion about the looting and destruction of Iraq’s cultural treasures, be they museum antiquities or library materials. Here’s an article from the May 22 Harvard University Gazette about some ways Harvard’s faculty and staff are contributing to the international efforts to recover or replace these materials. There’s also some mention of [...]
I don’t know how this happened, exactly, but apparently if you search on the word “blog” in Harvard’s search engine, my blog is all over the first page of results. They’re old results, though, because I changed the name of my blog a few days ago and the listing is still under the old name. [...]
I learned something interesting about how Harvard’s search engine (powered by Inktomi) indexes blogs today. A few days ago, I traced a referral Google made to my site. Google only seems to index the first page of this blog. Beth Potier, one of my coworkers, told me that she found my blog while she was [...]
Research Matters, one of the projects I work on, is featured on The Science Coalition’s Web site this week. Research Matters is a gateway to research done by people or programs affiliated with Harvard University. Granted, the Science Coalition just gave us a link at the top of their homepage next to a similar project [...]
Check this out: I met Joseph Reagle of the W3C at last week’s blog meeting. The W3C does some incredible stuff that interests me, so I’m always thrilled to meet someone who works with them. What is even more incredible is that Joseph says on his blog “it’s always exciting to meet librarians” when he [...]
Boston Globe reporter Larry O’Hanlon rewrote Harvard University Gazette science writer Bill Cromie’s headline on a climate story for the first paragraph of the article in today’s Globe’s science section. As Bill says, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
The Recording Industry Association of America is trying to get Verizon Communications to reveal the identities of its subscribers who have violated copyright laws while trading music. Verizon is trying to protect the identity of its clients. Recent court rulings have permitted the RIAA to get subpeonas forcing Verizon to name the abusers. Verizon is [...]
I’m trying hard to keep this blog related more to my profession than to just have a personal blog. Some of you my think this is a stretch, but I think it’s pretty legitimate. I love birds. One of the things I have been bemoaning since moving to this area is that there seems to [...]
To whomever is reading my blog at 5 am: please don’t expect too much new content at that hour. It ain’t gonna happen. I try hard to sleep much later than that. I got 18 hits then this morning. 18! (I think some people wake up way too early and have too little to do. [...]
Yeah, it’s that time in my life when I must move, or so one of my roommates tells me. If you have any leads in Somerville, I’d appreciate hearing about them. And, yes, I know about and have been searching Craig’s List. The cats would really like a balcony or porch, preferably one where they [...]
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