Cut And Paste Is A Skill Too

April 9, 2007 – 12:38 pm

[Update: Keith pointed out that my small disclaimer at the end isn't clear enough. This post is copied, stolen, cut and pasted in its entirety from Keith's blog, ISTP Dad. I was glad to learn of the story, and this was meant to be ironic and funny.]
An editorial in the Washington Post is explicit about [...]

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The Bathroom Reader

December 10, 2005 – 11:44 am

Somebody at Gizmodo found this Agence France-Presse story about the intersection of American surfing and bathroom habits in The Hindustan Times. It’s based on a report by the USC Annenberg School’s Center for the Digital Future. For five years running now, the center has tracked internet use (and non-use) in a 2,000 household representative sample [...]

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Is Search Rank Group-think?

November 1, 2005 – 12:22 pm

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 [...]

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James Torio’s Blogging Thesis

October 13, 2005 – 12:31 pm

James Torio has been working on his masters in marketing and took a strong look at blogs for his thesis.
I looked at how Blogs have impacted business and communication, how some Blogs create revenue, how some companies are using Blogs, how Blogs greatly boost the spread of information, how Blogs add richness to the media [...]

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UCLA Takes On Google Scholar

September 5, 2005 – 7:54 am

Via Jay Bhatt at LISNews: UCLA Libraries‘ discussion of Google Scholar, Search Engines, Databases, and the Research Process.

tags: google scholar, googlescholar, libraries, library, research, research database, research databases, search, search engines, sevia, ucla libraries

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