http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/spot mmmm tagline!!! Mon, 11 Dec 2006 23:11:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is an example of a WordPress page, you could edit this to put information about yourself or your site so readers know where you are coming from. You can create as many pages like this one or sub-pages as you like and manage all of your content inside of ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/spot/2006/04/01/about/ Welcome to Weblogs at Harvard Law School. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging! http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/spot/2006/04/01/hello-world/ Journalist Jill Carroll, captive in Iraq since early January, has been freed. The Christian Science Monitor, for which she freelances, has lots of articles. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/spot/2006/03/31/journalist-jill-carroll-is-free/ The first Digital Commonwealth Council of Members meeting is today, March 30, at the Worcester Public Library at 2 pm. Roy Tennant of the California Digital Library, Web4Lib, XML4Lib, and Common Cites (among other things) is the guest speaker. The meeting is free, but registration is required. Thanks for the tip, ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/spot/2006/03/30/first-digital-commonwealth-council-of-members-meeting-roy-tennant-s/ Edward Tenner explores whether search engines are making people dumber because they don't have to use as many research skills in this New York Times Op-Ed. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/spot/2006/03/28/are-search-engines-making-people-dumber/ One of the joys of being around the Berkman Center is attending the lunches they host with very interesting speakers. Today, David Weinberger is speaking some more about the book on knowledge he's writing. I've had the pleasure of listening to him talk about various other portions of the book ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/spot/2006/03/28/berkman-luncheon-series-david-weinberger-on-his-book-about-knowledg/ The Boston Herald reports Nancy Pearl and the action figure modeled after her made an appearance at the Public Libraries Association conference that just wrapped up in Boston. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/spot/2006/03/26/nancy-pearl-and-the-librarian-action-figure-visit-pla/ Just the other day, I was telling someone about how AltaVista used to be the fabulous search engine everyone would rave about and use. One of its creators, Paul Flaherty, died of a heart attack Thursday, March 16. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/spot/2006/03/25/altavista-creator-paul-flaherty-died-march-16/ In a speech at a journalism conference, Patrick J. Purcell, publisher and president of the Boston Herald, opined that the news-gathering strength of news organizations will help them survive the digital age. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/spot/2006/03/25/boston-herald-publisher-newspapers-will-survive-digital-age-because/ Remember that study published in the journal Nature about how Wikipedia is only slightly less accurate than the Encyclopedia Britannica when it comes to certain articles about science? Apparently, it made the folks at Britannica nervous enough to look into the study itself. They sent around an e-mail to a ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/spot/2006/03/22/britannica-responds-to-nature-study-about-wikipedias-inaccuracies-p/