for you news librarians and those of you interested in the profession on Orkut. Please join. I’m getting lonely.
Hey Thursday nighters, did you know there are communities for Cambridge and Boston bloggers, as well as one for the Berkman Center?
(The links may only work for those who have signed into Orkut.)
Addendum 5/13: Now there are […]
Today’s Wall Street Journal features Thomas P.M. Barnett on their front page. The article mentions his Web site, but oddly enough, it doesn’t mention his blog.
Thanks for elbowing me in the ribs about this, CJ.
(The link to the article may be restricted to subscribers.)
Addendum: Thomas’ thoughts
is some way to visualize my social network and the social networks of my “friends.” I have a feeling I probably know more people on Orkut than I can find. The search mechanisms facilitate known-item searching (searching for a specific person by name is an example of known-item searching), but it isn’t very serendipity friendly. […]
I could have sworn Orkut claimed to own whatever information we provided to the service. I found this statement when I was digging around their FAQs this afternoon:
“orkut.com does not claim any ownership right in the profile or other information that you submit. When you submit content to orkut.com, we use it to display the […]
Please pardon this digression:
For all you people with extra Gmail invites out there looking for something good to do with them, the site linked above facilitates Gmail invite donations for members of the military stationed overseas. You can even opt to have a service member for a penpal.
I think I donated an invite, but […]
(Yes, I am being a little sarcastic.)
I started typing this while sitting in Harvard Yard, since we had another fire drill that meant my office had to evaucate the building.
My coworkers laugh at me because I usually grab my desktop computer and at least one other laptop on my way out. My office doesn’t do desktop data backups and we have […]
Jack Shafer discusses the limitations of the electronic versions of some popular newspapers: The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times. He makes it sound like they cram too much material in the space they have. He does take a moment to discuss the advantages of the downloadable e-versions.
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