A colleague at the Los Angeles Times asked this question a long time ago. I’ve been pondering different answers, but I keep coming back to flexibility, so that’s what I’m going to say. Flexibility is the most important thing I can contribute to my office. Flexibility in the sense that I can drop everything I’m [...]
Is it a push or pull technology?
Feeds for the Internet Archive and Andrew Grumet’s BitTorrent project
An anecdote reminding us that not everyone knows what RSS is: After a conference presentation about RSS, someone in the audience stood up and asked what RSS is. The people in the room applauded because they all wanted to know, [...]
The San Jose Mercury News published an article about how research by a paralegal almost resulted in a city banning foam cups after she learned that dihydrogen monoxide, aka water, can be deadly when inhaled. She found information about the, uh, dangerous chemical on a site by a prankster.
This example is why when I give [...]
I don’t know how common this is, but every now and then, the reference questions on a particular day seem to have common themes. Sometimes everyone asks for a particular statistic or requests biographical information for cancer researchers. Sometimes, the questions are related to something happening in the news or another event–a radio talk show [...]