The New York Times has struggled with TimesSelect, now they’re killing it. But the news here isn’t that a media giant is giving up on a much hyped online venture. The news is that a media giant is endorsing what we now call web 2.0:
Since we launched TimesSelect in 2005, the online landscape has altered [...]
Posted September 18, 2007 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: linking, new york times, nyt, open access, timesselect, web 2.0, web20. Be the first one.
A discussion on Web4Lib last month raised the issue of Google indexing our library catalogs. My answer spoke of the huge number of searches being done in search engines every day and the way that people increasingly expect that anything worth finding can be found in Google.
There were doubts about the effectiveness of such plans, [...]
Posted May 4, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: google economy, google in the catalog, lib20, libraries, library, library 2.0, library catalog, linking, links, loosely linked, opac, remix, search engines, wpopac. 6 Comments.
The sale of Weblogs Inc. to AOL last month for $25+ million got a lot of bloggers excited. Tristan Louis did the math and put the sale value into perspective against the number of incoming links the the Weblogs Inc. properties. It’s an interesting assertion of the value of the Google Economy, no?
The various properties [...]
Posted November 25, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: ad revenue, ad revenues, aol, assertion, blog, blogger, bloggers, bought, citation analysis, google economy, link value, linking, links, sale, sale price, sold, technorati, weblog, weblogs, weblogs inc, weblogsinc. 3 Comments.
I’m rather passionate about the Google Economy, so it shouldn’t be too much of a surprise to learn that I just wrote about it in my first ever Wikipedia entry.
Here it is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_economy
“Google Economy” identifies the concept that the value of a resource can be determined by the way that resource is linked to other resources. [...]
Posted August 29, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: citation analysis, dr. eugene garfield, eugene garfield, google, google economy, information consumers, larry page, link, linking, links, media filters, print publishing, search, search engines, sergey brin, value, web pages, wikipedia, world wide web. Be the first one.
Danah Boyd posted about the biases of links over at Many2Many the other day. She looked for patterns in a random set of 500 blogs tracked by Technorati as well as the 100 top blogs tracked by Technorati. She found patterns in who keeps blogrolls and who is in them, as well as patterns about [...]
Posted August 10, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Blink, Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: bias, biases, blog, bloggers, blogs, gender, gender differences, google, google economy, link, linking, rank, ranking, social life of information, technorati. 3 Comments.