Lorcan Dempsey

Pride and prejudice tops fiction list: > Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen’s salty-tongued commentary on the plight of women

Services have emerged which help 'stitch' other services together in ways that map onto user needs. Examples are RSS, toolbars, and extensions. I call these 'intrastructure' here, and discuss their use.

In a delightful conceit, Phil Gyford presents Samuel Pepys diary in the form of a blog. > This site is

Google and Amazon have each made citations more visible in recent weeks. It has been widely noted that Google Scholar

Tim Berners-Lee is to take up a chair at the University of Southampton in parallel with his MIT appointment. Electronics

Providing service at the point of need is a growing emphasis for service providers on the network. Why is there

A colleague pointed me to an interview with Google’s vice-president of engineering, Urs Hölzle. It may not have much

The California Digital Library hosts the UC Office of Scholarly Communication [https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/] which usefully brings together some

An evaluation of the UK People’s Network has been published. > The People’s Network, a €120 million lottery-funded

> Merriam-Webster said “blog” headed the list of most looked-up terms on its site during the last twelve months. [BBC

An Ecar report contains findings of a survey of students at several universities. It looks at use of technologies in

I have mentioned library logistics [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000487.html] and also the services of Sentient Learning