Google Announces Plan To Destroy All Information It Can’t Index Believe it . . . or not.
Molly Ivins has a piece in today’s Alternet.org on the issue of free speech (as in guaranteed by the 1st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution) and the growing use of the Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (aka "SLAPP"). The idea behind the SLAPP is that a large (or merely well-funded) corporate entity can bring these…
"Google, the Naked Emperor," by Roy Tennant, from this week’s Library Journal. The upshot: Google relies on search algorithms that do some things very well and other things (say, finding brand new web pages or even finding the last entry in the web index) very poorly. Google is just not in the business of providing…
This comes courtesy of Lily Pregill, NYAM’s Special Projects Mgr.: Worth Remembering for the Google Addicted Chris Sherman, points to a new study that shows that the various generic web search engines (the big 4), have even less overlap in their results than in previous studies and that’s not much overlap. You can find his…
I’m not sure how many folks reading this have an interest in foreign libraries, but in case there are some of you out there, this is for you.The IFLA Working Group on Functional Requirements and Numbering of Authority Records is pleased to announce that a draft of "Functional Requirements for Authority Records" is now available…
Just got stopped by nypd. I look dangerous! I am a threat to the state! yeah! I’m e-mailing you from my cell phone! Buwahaha!
I know, I’ve been away for a while. Between work, sickness (both mine and in my family) and deadlines for delivery of a hellish number of catalog records to the National Library of Medicine, it’s been both busy and distracting. But it’s important to have fun while you’re cataloging a document. It doesn’t matter what…
Gary Price offers a few thoughts on The Digitization of the Library along with abunch of links worth perusing when you have some time to spend on it (you can easily spend an hour reading this, so set time aside.) Also, here is an article on how to Browse and Search CNN Video for Free,…
This isn’t a proper library website, but it is a very nifty and reasonably cosmopolitan collection of WWII era war posters. Also, I’ve traded email with the author, and read his work on a regular basis. So I figured I’d share this. Enjoy!
I know this is not strictly library news, but this is becoming genuinely disturbing. Actually, it was genuinely disturbing a month ago when the story first broke, but now it’s mind bogglingly insane.This bit by Ted Koppel is not much better. Training in the art and science (!) of Connexion Client at the Brooklyn campus…