MySQL 5.1 is out as a GA release, but with crashing bugs that should give likely users pause. Perhaps worse, the problems are blamed on essential breakdowns in the project management: “We have changed the release model so that instead of focusing on quality and features our release is now defined by timeliness and features. [...]

Posted December 10, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches, Technology. Tags: 5.1, bugs, community, Drizzle, mysql, open source, OurDelta, quality. Be the first one.

Over at KLE’s Web 2.0 Challenge I was surprised to learn:
Both Bisson and Stephens are so excited about this concept of Web 2.0 they have not taken a good look at what they can’t do for our libraries. …with all this new technology we can not forget that what is the most important in our [...]

Posted September 25, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: criticism, good service, good service online, lib20, libraries, library 2.0, online, quality, service, web 2.0. Be the first one.

How can I not appreciate thenonist’s link dumps and other posts when they’re illustrated with works like those above?
The men in suits come from May 29. June 4 offers us these funny trading cards and a gallery of horror movie damsels (in distress, of course). June 5 offers a good look at sincerity among other [...]

Posted June 9, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: blog, damsels in distress, galleries, links, quality, russian theater, thenonist, trading cards. Be the first one.

Fresh from Nature: a peer reveiw comparison of Wikipedia’s science coverage against Encyclopaedia Britannica:
One of the extraordinary stories of the Internet age is that of Wikipedia, a free online encyclopaedia that anyone can edit. This radical and rapidly growing publication, which includes close to 4 million entries, is now a much-used resource. But it is [...]

Posted December 14, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: Britannica, compare, comparison, Encyclopaedia Britannica, encyclopedia, head to head, journal, nature, peer review, quality, social software, thewisdom of the crowds, wikipedia, wisdom of crowds. One Comment.

Way back in April 1997, Jakob Nielsen tried to educate us on Zipf Distributions and the power law, and their relationship to the web. This is where discussions of the Chris Anderson’s Long Tail start, but the emphasis is on the whole picture, not just the many economic opportunities at the end of the tail.

Here’s [...]

Posted November 1, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: academia, academic library, google, google economy, googling, group think, jakob nielsen, libraries, library, lowest common denominator, networked information, popularity, quality, research, search engines, search rankings, search result rankings, search results, wikipedia. One Comment.

If that proverbial room full of monkeys at typewriters ever really did randomly pound out the complete works of Shakespeare, would they be as good? What if they randomly pounded out something better?

tags: chance, complete works of shakespeare, monkeys, quality, shakespeare, shakespeare’s complete works, typewriters

Posted October 13, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music, Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: chance, complete works of shakespeare, monkeys, quality, shakespeare, shakespeare's complete works, typewriters. One Comment.