Where is the web?
Some commentary on how the experience of the web will move from one where
destinations dominate to one where lightweight
Lorcan Dempsey
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QOTD
The NYT story on Sid Verba has been noted in several places. This quote caught
my eye.
> James Hilton,
Do you mesh here often?
Every now and again you read something that shifts your thinking a little. This
happened to me just now when
Lorcan Dempsey
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Discover, locate, ... vertical and horizontal integration
Libraries face horizontal and vertical integration challenges as they create more unified information environments. Vertically, they have to integrate supply chains and proceses; horizontally, they have to move between processes.
Lorcan Dempsey
5 min read
Storage and logistics
Optimising storage and access in UK research libraries [pdf
[https://www.curl.ac.uk/about/documents/CURL_BLStorageReportFinal-endSept2005.pdf]
], a
Lorcan Dempsey
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2b?Ntb?=?
British student phone service dot mobile is providing a service which compresses
classics into a text message idiom to help
Tag teams
There is an interesting article in Business 2.0 about the ‘Flickrization of
Yahoo’.
> Indeed, the Flickr purchase helped
Lorcan Dempsey
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Calendar
[https://www.lib.ed.ac.uk/news/calendaradvert.html]The University of Edinburgh
has published a calendar [https://www.lib.
FRBR fervor
FRBR is another of those things that we have given a public-unfriendly name to.
This is a pity, because the
Lorcan Dempsey
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QOTD
From the Economist:
> Although search technology is constantly tweaked to provide better performance
and more relevant results, studies by
Blogs, media and voice
Ian Buruma, author and Henry R. Luce Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at
Bard College [https://www.bard.edu/
Lorcan Dempsey
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