The blog meetings are getting more sophisticated. The last three have been Webcast. Someone set up an IRC channel. And now there’s a Wiki. Oh, ye people in remote locations, please join us.
The Keeping Found Things Found research project at the University of Washington’s Information School takes the problem of information retrieval one step further by examining how people save, reaccess, and reuse items they’ve already found. Their current focus is on how people do this with regards to information they’ve found on the Web. Some of [...]
In London’s technology e-zine The Register, a writer laments the lack of utility he thinks the Internet has after ten years of growth and development and praises librarians because of their abilities to do things technology can’t. “If you’re in doubt, befriend a librarian, and from the resulting dialog, you’ll learn to start asking good [...]