UX Standing and branding [https://www.ucl.ac.uk]In an article in the current Wilson Quarterly [https://wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction= Lorcan Dempsey Aug 13, 2005 1 min read
Systems Tim O'Reilly on Google Print for Libraries There is a long posting on the O’Reilly Radar site bringing together some of Tim O’Reilly’s thoughts Lorcan Dempsey Aug 13, 2005
Institutions Pause I note that the Google Print Library program is being paused. It will be interesting to see what happens next: Lorcan Dempsey Aug 12, 2005 1 min read
Systems A billion holdings [https://worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/isbn/1592233724]The OCLC website is now carrying details of the billionth holding in WorldCat. It Lorcan Dempsey Aug 11, 2005 1 min read
Social Gender A couple of things of late about gender differences on the web. Researchers at the University of Glamorgan have been Lorcan Dempsey Aug 11, 2005 1 min read
Systems RSS, Mozilla and mortals Dan Farber interviews Chris Hoffman, Director of Engineering at the Mozilla Foundation. The headline says that Mozilla wants to make Lorcan Dempsey Aug 11, 2005 1 min read
Systems Open sourcing Spotted a while ago on a vendor t-shirt at a conference: ‘we help make open source affordable’ 😉 Whatever about using Lorcan Dempsey Aug 10, 2005
Systems Texting maps [https://maps.google.com/maps?q=40+amazon+place,+columbus,+oh+43214+(Eoghan,+Eavan,+Ann+and+Lorcan+live+here)& Lorcan Dempsey Aug 10, 2005
Systems Ranking and interestingness One of the notable things about Google Scholar is the citation-based ranking. There was some discussion [https://www.newscientist.com/ Lorcan Dempsey Aug 9, 2005 1 min read
Systems Weibel lines My colleague Stu Weibel contributed a nice retrospective on metadata [https://www.dlib.org/dlib/july05/weibel/07weibel.html] to Lorcan Dempsey Aug 8, 2005 1 min read
Systems Sound metadata The introduction of Yahoo! Audio Search [https://audio.search.yahoo.com/] has alerted us to the benefits of putting metadata Lorcan Dempsey Aug 8, 2005
Systems A pedestrian search service According to a Wired story A9’s street-level picturing exercise seems to be creating value for users. > They also Lorcan Dempsey Aug 8, 2005 1 min read