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- David Dillard invites us to read his lengthy post on NetGold about how search engines, while not the end-all of research, do have their place in scholarly information retrieval. Specifically, he was looking for references to the term "Tourismification" in order to respond to a discussion thread in a sociology forum. He had no luck with the social science databases he normally turns to, but Google found him paydirt: Notice the Google search picked up in the first ten records sampled mostly scholarly work.... Peer reviewed literature may be much more palitable [sic] to the academic scholar in terms of its academic ethnic heritage, and the World Wide Web may be viewed as having been raised on the bad side of town. |
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- Steve Fesenmaier writes "Dena Lanier hands out amNew York, a free condensed daily newspaper that made its debut on Friday. New York is the latest market where publishers are trying out a product that is intended to attract readers aged 21 to 34. NYTimes Has The Story" They say target audience is readers aged 21 to 34 - a generation that spends far less time reading newspapers than its parents do. The challenge of reaching that elusive group was evident in the effort Mr. Johnson was making: |
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- 1099.com has a Nice Feature On Judith Tapiero. Tapiero, whose business is called The Organized Library, has made a living by bringing order to corporations' chaos. Armed with a master's degree in library science, a no-nonsense manner, a natural bent for organizing, and raves from corporate clients, Tapiero cleans up the paper trails others leave behind. She tackles teetering stacks of Internet print-outs, annual reports, and client information, piles of journals, and pyramids of books -- many of them in triplicate -- and picks out the information gems upon which each organization's very life depends. |
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- Here's A NYTimes Story on how Russia chose the Frankfurt Book Fair, which opened Tuesday, to trumpet its literary comeback. I also heard a story on NPR today, but have no time to track it down. Maybe someone can post a link below. |
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- North West Arkansas News has a nice profile of Louise Schaper, the "petite, spunky director of the Fayetteville Public Library." Though she started her career creating virtual libraries, Schaper now says public libraries are "symbolic of our free society." "We believe that we need to have the best works, not just the best sellers," she says. "In a university town, one of the major attractions for people is generally a public library that is better than a public library in a noncollege town — because people are education focused and they do take reading and they take knowledge of authors and their works very seriously." |
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- Here's An eBay Auction for a nifty "Repeal the USA PATRIOT Act" bumpersticker. All proceeds of this sale will be given to the EFF, the ACLU, the Social Responsibilities Round Table of the American Library Association or the anti-PATRIOT Act non-profit of the winning buyer's choice. This auction is for one bumpersticker as pictured. Glossy, shiny, rounded corners |
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- Bob Cox spotted an Obvious Article from down in Florida, where they say Donna Baumbach, a professor at the University of Central Florida, analyzed more than 1,700 media centers at Florida schools. She found that well-staffed, well-stocked libraries drive up elementary reading scores by 9 percent, middle-school scores by 3 percent and high-school scores by 22 percent. Her yearlong study reflects the findings of similar research in six other states. Of course, Money for new books is sporadic at best. Librarians report that about half of their budgets come not from the state but from book fairs, parent organizations, candy sales and profits from school supplies, according to the latest research. |
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- Tinus Boshoff writes "Press releaseFor the first time libraries can have access to the most comprehensive electronic collection of South African scientific and scholarly journals in the world. Most of these journals are peer reviewed and are accredit by the South African Department of Arts, Science and Culture. At present 131 titles are available and the number of titles is growing steadily. Sabinet Online's SA ePublication product was formally launched on 4 June 2002. |
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- The Chinese government has tried yet another a democracy activist on subversion charges, for publishing letters and articles on the internet. He Depu's trial in Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court lasted two hours and finished at 11 a.m., Jia Jianying said. |
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- Someone working on Mail.app should completely disable the popup dialogs which interrupt whatever I'm doing every time a mail server is unreachable. The app already disables the mailbox widgets, so why the bouncing icon and the modal dialog? Laptops go on and off the net constantly. Please stop alerting me to an event which is in no way alarming. |
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- Sorry, KevinI got all mixed-up there for a minute, Kevin. You're a Brit, but I forgot you live here in the USA. I get it now. You did the consulting on the Las Vegas Collection. Taupe-less Showgirls, hmmmm ... |
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- Here once again we see a FUD article about the GPL and FSF's enfrocement of the GPL, this time its in Forbes. We shoudl note thesame enforcement actions of the GPL that FSS starts are often cited on copyright infringment cases invovling closed source with the Cisco, LinkSys, and etc.So why the borad FUD brush that somewho FSf or Linux adovactes are doing something different in copyright enforcement than closed source companines? Daniel Lynons we deserve an answer, do you have the guts to answer? |
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- Way back in Chapter 3, I got stuck on Completing the Square. Everyone else was doing it just fine. I just couldn't grasp the concept. Last night, however, after much head to book banging, I figured it out. Allow me to demonstrate for anyone who may be looking for help. |
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- Way back in Chapter 3, I got stuck on Completing the Square. Everyone else was doing it just fine. I just couldn't grasp the concept. Last night, however, after much head to book banging, I figured it out. Allow me to demonstrate for anyone who may be looking for help. |
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- Way back in Chapter 3, I got stuck on Completing the Square. Everyone else was doing it just fine. I just couldn't grasp the concept. Last night, however, after much head to book banging, I figured it out. Allow me to demonstrate for anyone who may be looking for help. |
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- LiveWarehouse offers Sierra's Hoyle Majestic Chess for $14 plus $5 shipping, the lowest total price we've seen by $6. |
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- NEW AL GORE TV HOPES TO AVOID 'LIBERAL' LABEL AdAge.com NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Former vice president Al Gore and a group of investors have plans to launch an all-news channel, but it won't be a liberal alternative ... AL Gore Plans to Launch |
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- chitarra con 2 humbuckers(pull sul tono per split)ponte piezo-uscite separate e mix-selettore a 3 posizioni-top in acero flame-corpo in mogano-manico in acero-tastiera in resina fenolica-gig bag originale compresa-6 mesi di vita-perfetta disp.molte foto. |
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- perfetto, con imballi originali, mai utilizzato se non per verificarne il funzionamento. Vendo causa errato acquisto |
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- Finale a transistor rocktron velocity 120, 2 canali indipendenti 60+60w, 120w mono, 1 unita' rack |
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- Nuovissima, due mesi. Rossa con paletta matched. Sostituito il ponte che,notoriamente fa schifo. Chitarra illibata. Con custodia. |
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- causa inutilizzo vendo basso yamaha mod. bb attivo 4 corde. |
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- colore arancione red tastiera in acero byrd eyes 2 humbuking seiomour duncan splittabile e midbost |
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- Attorney Brady Johnson wrote a comprehensive and enlightening piece on spam legislation, why it hasn't worked and why much of it is unlikely to in the future. He addresses the complex issues of interplay between state and federal legal issues that often prevents effective regulation. TidBITS reports. [summary] |
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- Explosion Rocks Turkish Embassy in Iraq A car bomb exploded Tuesday at the gates of the Turkish embassy, killing two... |
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- The Sony 4x DW-U14A 4x DVD-RW/DVD+RW EIDE drive dropped to $159 at LiveWarehouse. That's $5 off yesterday's mention and the best price we've seen....(more) |
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- The Sony 4x DW-U14A 4x DVD-RW/DVD+RW EIDE drive dropped to $159 at LiveWarehouse. That's $5 off yesterday's mention and the best price we've seen....(more) |
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- shopgoodwill.com is the newest Goodwill store offering a wide array of antiques and collectibles pulled from Goodwill’s vast inventory of donated goods. From unique one-of- a kind items to estate pieces, the depth of resources is enormous. Revenues from auction sales fund education, job training and job placement programs for people with disabilities and other disadvantages. Goodwill Industries International is a network of 182 local, autonomous member organization in the United States and Canada, and 45 international associate members in 34 countries. |
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- <p>Enjoyed dinner last night with Steve Gillmor, Dana Gardner and John Udell. I wouldn't bring it up, however, if I hadn't just read Tristan Louis' Blogs & Expertise post. |
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- Die Regierung hat der Schwarzarbeit den Kampf angesagt. Doch nach Recherchen des ARD-Magazins "Plusminus", führt Rot-Grün den Kampf nur halbherzig. So sehe der Gesetzentwurf keine Generalunternehmerhaftung für die eigentlichen Hintermänner vor. |
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