Greg Notess, known for Search Engine Showdown, is giving us another take on search engines and advanced searching.
Northern Light is back with some searches for business sources.
alltheweb makes suggestions as you type. It uses Yahoo!’s database.
The way Notess’ presentation is structured, it’s easier for me just to list the various resource he’s showing us than […]
For years, I have heard colleagues rave about Mary Ellen Bates’ presentations at the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference. This talk is the first time I’ve gone to hear her. Her sessions often fill to overflowing at SLA and there are so many other great sessions, I usually attend something else. She’s great. Everything […]
Chris Sherman is of Search Engine Watch. With Gary Price, he coauthored a book about the invisible Web a few years ago.
I am torn between sessions in the Web Design and Development track and the Information Discovery and Search track. The Web Design and Development track has a lot of Web 2.0 stuff in it. […]
One of the things I learned early as a writer is to always go to talks by writers whenever possible. An advantage of going to librarians’ conferences is that there are often writers speaking. Internet Librarian kicked off with a talk by J. A. Jance. It won’t surprise some of you to know I have […]
On Tuesday, November 14, I’m giving a 90-minute talk at the Boston Center for Adult Education focusing on politics and blogging. One of the first projects I was involved in as a blogger was covering a lot of US presidential campaign events in New Hampshire in 2003. A number of us from the blog group […]
In certain circles, "porn" has become a slang term for beautiful photos of any variety of things. Cookbooks might have food porn. Remodeling books might have house porn. You get the idea. Garrett sent me a link to some gorgeous photographs of amazing libraries based on a book.
I’ve seen the page before and intended to […]
Dow Jones is buying Reuters’ half of the news database Factiva, a leading news database. Many news organizations sell their content to Factiva. Many libraries subscribe to the database. Since 1999, Dow Jones and Reuters have collaborated on the database.
It’s been a while since we’ve talked about Internet access in other countries in this space. Some folks in blog group are talking about Iran’s decision to ban high-speed Internet access and what that means for the government and the citizens. What does a decision like that have to do with libraries? Well, think about […]
When I went to The Boston Globe Web site recently, I noticed a prominent link to some podcasts. I’m not sure how long they’ve been podcasting, but I didn’t notice the link about a week or so ago. They offer several based on the news and their columnists.
(I ended up being unexpectedly offline this past […]
Timo Hannat from Nature entertained us at Tuesday’s Berkman lunch with lots of tales about how science is changing the Web, the Web is changing science, and what journals can do to foster communication among scientists and between scientists and the public. Really fascinating stuff.