Portal landscape
PEPC 2004: The Conference [https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/pepc2004/] provides a
good snapshot of institutional portal developments. Increasingly, the
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Adam Bosworth on keeping it simple
Adam Bosworth discusses how the user focus changes in moving from BEA to Google,
and how this influences thinking about
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Food for thought
“Food is polysaturated with culture” says Steven Shapin in a review of several
books on the Atkins diet. This is
Google and the Ferrari factor
Apparently, there is some concern that if Google staff become suddenly wealthy
they may loose some of their incentive to
Wiglaf
Beowulf celebrates 10 years of computing activity.
> In late 1993, Becker and Thomas Sterling, both working at NASA’s
Vocabularies in library and information science
A 1999 article by Michael Buckland on vocabulary as a central concept in library
and information science.
> Vocabulary problems
Local Yahoo
We are definitely in a race …
Yahoo now has a Local Yahoo [https://local.yahoo.com/] service, which aims to
The phone as centre
Jonathan Schwartz, COO and president of Sun, has become very visible as a
blogger. Here he is on technology (on
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MSN sandbox
Along the lines of Google Labs, and even, dare I say, our own ResearchWorks
[https://www.oclc.org/research/researchworks]
Organization of work
A suggestive panel discussion on Technology and the modern corporation: how
different will it become is covered in Robert Patterson’
Library spaces
An article in today’s New York Times (free registration) talks about how
academic libraries are developing as group learning