Systems What's the catalog for David Weinberger noted Tim Bray’s nice post about the Bodleain library a while ago. He discussed the catalog and Lorcan Dempsey Aug 18, 2004 1 min read
Misc Sun blogs ZDNet on the Schwartz phenomenon. The COO and President of Sun is using his blog to go straight to a Lorcan Dempsey Aug 10, 2004 1 min read
Research ∕ Learning Portal landscape PEPC 2004: The Conference [https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/pepc2004/] provides a good snapshot of institutional portal developments. Increasingly, the Lorcan Dempsey Aug 9, 2004 1 min read
Systems 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 Lorcan Dempsey Aug 8, 2004 1 min read
Misc Food for thought “Food is polysaturated with culture” says Steven Shapin in a review of several books on the Atkins diet. This is Lorcan Dempsey Aug 8, 2004
Misc 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 Lorcan Dempsey Aug 6, 2004
Systems Wiglaf Beowulf celebrates 10 years of computing activity. > In late 1993, Becker and Thomas Sterling, both working at NASA’s Lorcan Dempsey Aug 6, 2004
Systems 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 Lorcan Dempsey Aug 5, 2004
Systems Local Yahoo We are definitely in a race … Yahoo now has a Local Yahoo [https://local.yahoo.com/] service, which aims to Lorcan Dempsey Aug 5, 2004
Systems The phone as centre Jonathan Schwartz, COO and president of Sun, has become very visible as a blogger. Here he is on technology (on Lorcan Dempsey Aug 2, 2004 1 min read
Systems MSN sandbox Along the lines of Google Labs, and even, dare I say, our own ResearchWorks [https://www.oclc.org/research/researchworks] Lorcan Dempsey Aug 1, 2004
Institutions Organization of work A suggestive panel discussion on Technology and the modern corporation: how different will it become is covered in Robert Patterson’ Lorcan Dempsey Aug 1, 2004