Institutions Our business The University of Aberdeen [https://www.aberdeen.ac.uk/] is recruiting a University Librarian. The University dates from 1495 [https: Lorcan Dempsey Apr 5, 2006 1 min read
Social The social web Very nice presentation on ‘The web now: social’ [pdf [https://www.lukew.com/resources/articles/IxDA_SocialWeb_LW.pdf]] by Lorcan Dempsey Apr 5, 2006
Books Link traffic - the top 1000 I spoke [ppt [https://www.oclc.org/research/presentations/dempsey/shorterreading2.ppt]] about our Top 1000 list [https://www.oclc. Lorcan Dempsey Apr 5, 2006 1 min read
Systems QOTD: day one of book search One of the discussion points surrounding the mass digitization initiatives has been the prospect of services built over the full-text, Lorcan Dempsey Apr 3, 2006 1 min read
Books The NYT and the rich texture of suggestion The New York Times discusses its redesigned web presence: > We also wanted to give our readers a greater voice Lorcan Dempsey Apr 3, 2006 1 min read
Books The organizational shuffle A while ago I wrote an entry noting the general trend towards decomposition and recomposition of parts at various levels, Lorcan Dempsey Apr 2, 2006 1 min read
Institutions Border country I spoke at the Taiga Forum [https://www.taigaforum.org/index.html] early last week in Chicago. Readers may be Lorcan Dempsey Apr 2, 2006
Research ∕ Learning Science, data and the record Microsoft Research [https://research.microsoft.com/aboutmsr/labs/cambridge/] in Cambridge, UK, hosted a very interesting event [https://research.microsoft. Lorcan Dempsey Apr 1, 2006 2 min read
Systems An addressable knowledge-base There has been a lot of discussion about Wikipedia of late. Much of this has been about ‘authority’. There is Lorcan Dempsey Mar 30, 2006 1 min read
Misc QOTD: Simplicity Paul Kedrosky in Business 2.0: > The current obsession with simplicity beats making products stupidly complex. But it’s Lorcan Dempsey Mar 27, 2006
Social Extending the audience I have been thinking about Bono recently. One of the pivotal events in U2 and recent media history, IMHO, was Lorcan Dempsey Mar 26, 2006 2 min read
Systems Know your audience [/lorcand/lorcan/castellsaudience1.html]We have made an ‘audience level’ service available as a prototype. This is available as a Lorcan Dempsey Mar 23, 2006 1 min read