Archive for October 24th, 2007

ASIST 2007 Notes: Clifford Lynch’s Plenary

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

Clifford Lynch of the Center for Networked Information gave an overview of the electronic world of information during his plenary speech at the American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Conference. Among the bits that I find particularly worth noting: * People are creating more data with the intention of it only being used [...]

ASIST 2007 Notes: Blogs and Wikis in the Corporate World

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

Blogs and Wikis in the Corporate World American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting Jessica Baumgart Jack Vinson Jordan Frank Christina Pikas Kris Liberman Wednesday, October 24, 2007 I used Renesys’ weblogs and wiki to provide concrete examples of why and how corporations use the tools. Jack Vinson of Knowledge Jolt with Jack [...]

A Comparison of Google, Yahoo!, Ask, and Live Search

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

On Newslib, I found this Chicago Tribune article looking at major search engines: Google, Yahoo!, Ask, and Microsoft’s Live Search. After providing an analysis of the four engines and explaining why he prefers Yahoo!, Steve Johnson says, “[O]thers will find features or tendencies they prefer in the other search engines. It is simple to test [...]


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