Misc email service from Google > “If a Google user has a problem with email, well, so do we,” said Google co-founder and president of Lorcan Dempsey Apr 1, 2004
Misc Knots on MEL Peter Suber will be familiar to people as the Open Access advocate. He is a philosopher. He also has an Lorcan Dempsey Apr 1, 2004 1 min read
Systems Yakpac Yakpak [https://test.indexdata.com/yakpac/] is a children’t user interface for OPAC data. It sits on top of Lorcan Dempsey Mar 31, 2004
Systems IndexData Some colleagues will be familiar with IndexData the small Danish company set up by Sebastian Hammer which provides the open Lorcan Dempsey Mar 31, 2004 2 min read
OR on eBay OR makes it to eBay discussion forums (Bookmarklets and FictionFinder): eBay US – Tools for Avid Readers [https://forums.ebay.com/ Lorcan Dempsey Mar 29, 2004
Misc Irritable desk syndrome > Researchers at NEC-Mitsubishi say the nation’s office workers are being hit by “Irritable Desk Syndrome”. [BBC NEWS | Health Lorcan Dempsey Mar 29, 2004
Misc University rankings Shanghai Jiao Tong University Institute of Higher Education provides its Academic Ranking of World Universities [https://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/ Lorcan Dempsey Mar 28, 2004
Institutions Tennant on xISBN Belatedly, it is worth noting Roy’s remarks about xISBN in his recent LJ column: > Useful on its own, Lorcan Dempsey Mar 26, 2004
Misc Tabor in the library I always like seeing comments like the one below where the library has played some role in personal development or Lorcan Dempsey Mar 26, 2004 1 min read
Systems Phil Agre and semantic web Phil Agre has a background in AI and has moved into more social/political studies of the co-evolution of technologies Lorcan Dempsey Mar 25, 2004 1 min read
Systems Terminology services I gave the opening presentation recently at the JISC Terminology Services Workshop [https://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/jisc-terminology/programme. Lorcan Dempsey Mar 25, 2004 1 min read
Books A polarized nation Jon Udell notes interesting piece in NYT: > Polarized Nation: A study of purchase patterns of political books reveals that Lorcan Dempsey Mar 13, 2004 1 min read