One of my clients asked me to review Furl, a service that archives Web pages at the request of its users. I took a quick look at it tonight using its demo mode. Some of the useful features include the ability to add comments and categories to the pages, a search engine, and the option [...]
When I signed up for a new e-mail account tonight (I now have 8 or 9), I noticed one of the security questions to verify a user’s identity is “What is your library card number?”
Addendum 5/5: I only have 8 e-mail addresses. The ninth one isn’t valid and I’m not sure I’m going to set [...]
The March 2004 Sky magazine explores Nashville, site of the Special Libraries Association 2004 Annual Conference. About Belle Meade Plantation, location for the SLA News Division Awards Banquet, it says, “The ornate Victorian interiors at Belle Meade, once a renowned thoroughbred stud farm, are filled with memorabilia dedicated to its most famous resident, Iroquois, who [...]
This April 2004 Sky magazine article about the online Merriam-Webster dictionary discusses how the executives use the data gathered from online searches to revise the dictionary and its Web site. The Springfield, Massachusetts, company scrolls the search terms across a screen like an Internet search company does and compiles rankings and stats from a day’s [...]
I feel like I’m playing basketball this weekend with the blog server. I was hoping to catch up on some blogging I’ve been meaning to do, but the instability of the server is preventing me from getting to the blog and discouraging me from posting anything for fear that the new post will disappear with [...]