Lorcan Dempsey

I find that I use Technorati less these days than Google Blogsearch and Bloglines/Ask for looking at blog stuff.

Hitwise has an interesting analyis of seasonal patterns of web traffic traffic. What I noticed was how Wikipedia use was

Günter has a nice entry [https://hangingtogether.org/?p=152] on metadata and explores correspondences across the GLAM sectors – libraries,

I mentioned the Brown(e) Issue system below, and noted that there was not a wikipedia entry for it. A

Wikipedia has let me down, I fear. I was looking for a brief description of the Brown Issue System. Nope.

In the context of talking about disclosure I had it on my list to note Google’s Sitemap some time,

The Guardian supplement has a feature on Web 2.0 where they interview the founders of a set of internet

The MIT – Southampton research collaboration around ‘web science’ has been much noted: > The Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI) will

Andy Powell has posted a long and interesting post [https://efoundations.typepad.com/efoundations/2006/10/pushing_an_open.html]

Ralph Levan has a succinct article in the current Information Technology and Libraries explicating the current profusion of search protocols

I grew up in a house with a lot of books. And dominant among them were those published by Penguin.

Over the next few years libraries will devote more attention to systemwide optimization of collections – within consortia, regions or countries.