Lorcan Dempsey

A couple of things of late about gender differences on the web. Researchers at the University of Glamorgan have been

Dan Farber interviews Chris Hoffman, Director of Engineering at the Mozilla Foundation. The headline says that Mozilla wants to make

Spotted a while ago on a vendor t-shirt at a conference: ‘we help make open source affordable’ 😉 Whatever about using

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One of the notable things about Google Scholar is the citation-based ranking. There was some discussion [https://www.newscientist.com/

My colleague Stu Weibel contributed a nice retrospective on metadata [https://www.dlib.org/dlib/july05/weibel/07weibel.html] to

The introduction of Yahoo! Audio Search [https://audio.search.yahoo.com/] has alerted us to the benefits of putting metadata

According to a Wired story A9’s street-level picturing exercise seems to be creating value for users. > They also

I have suggested in these pages [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000487.html] that logistics is a central part

[https://worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/isbn/087584863X]Check out the new look interface to Find in a library. See, for example,

For Habermas, the public sphere is the arena in which public opinion is formed, independent of economic or government influence.

Typically readable recent essay: > So these, I think, are the three big lessons open source and blogging have to