January 2010
4 posts
“‘Controlled Serendipity’ Liberates the Web
But we are solving the problem,...”
– ‘Controlled Serendipity’ Liberates the Web - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
via @Jantweepuntnul
“NoBrandSearch is an experiment to compare the core competencies of the search...”
– Pandianews» Test the search engines up against each other
Nobrandsearch
5 Reasons Science [Hearts] Google | Computers |... →
Google’s strength is not that it introduces new information but rather that it helps researchers find and communicate what is already out there. To scientists who are routinely drowning in data, that is incredibly valuable. Google has made access to data as simple as a conventional Web search—and that, in its own small way, is a scientific revolution.
June 2009
10 posts
“Blogging can create much thornier issues for researchers. Many presenters are...”
– Science journalism: Breaking the convention? : Nature News
“These 11 rules about how you can influence decision-makers to adopt your ideas...”
– Effectively Influencing Decision-Makers - BusinessWeek
“t’s a major strategic mistake to not offer this information to Google (and...”
– Google v. Facebook? What We Learn from Twitter. - John Battelle’s Searchblog
“De bekende citatie-indexen die samen Web of Science uitmaken nemen tijdschriften...”
– Weblog I&C » Naar een Europese citatie-index?
“The use of citations to determine the quality of academic work in the hard...”
– Times Higher Education - Hefce backs off citations in favour of peer review in REF
“Search is volatile and we’d be nuts to think that Google owned the last...”
– Cory Doctorow: Search is too important to leave to one company – even Google | Technology | guardian.co.uk
May 2009
17 posts
“‘Als je weet hoe een man ergens op reageert, kun je dan voorspellen hoe een...”
– nrc.nl - Wetenschap - Het vrouwenbrein loopt eerder vol met stress
“Search engines are like reference librarians,” Grey explained....”
– Wolfram Alpha Acts as a ‘computational Knowledge Engine’ - Business Center - PC World
“You can now search -imeem to display only non imeem songs on blip.fm. This...”
– blip.fm Outrage over imeem changes (30 second clips, IMEEM streaming) « dion roys all things music blog.
“it does not matter how metadata is stored, as long as it is possible to get the...”
– CommonPlace.Net
“For me, this is a major issue. I need to know where the information has come...”
– Karen Blakeman’s Blog » Blog Archive » Wolfram Alpha is out - hmmm…
“Information may be power, but it is also extremely fragile.
—-
Another...”
– Securing Your Digital Future
“essence of Twitter is conversation. Libraries, however, tend to use it as a...”
– Twitter for Libraries (and Librarians) (Searcher)
“Librarians must master sophisticated IT and information management skills as...”
– Shh, this is a digital library - Times Online
The Internet Archive Story →
“Navigating the blogosphere: Towards a genre-based typology of weblogs
(First...”
– Lomborg
“Survival of the fittest tag: Folksonomies, findability, and the evolution of...”
– Wichowski
“Facebook and academic performance: Reconciling a media sensation with data
Josh...”
– Pasek
Facebook and academic performance: Reconciling a media sensation with data
“Een organisatie die niet investeert in een collectieve ambitie en een gedragen...”
– BiebmiepLeen weblog: “Kennis = macht” voorkomen door het creëren van een collectieve ambitie
“Paper of Record was purchased (secretly) by Google in 2006, and shortly after...”
– News: Digital Archives That Disappear - Inside Higher Ed
April 2009
8 posts
“beslissing van het Europees Parlement om het auteursrecht op geluidsopnamen te...”
– Bibliotheken en archieven niet gelukkig met uitbreiding auteursrecht | Vlaamse Vereniging voor Bibliotheek-, Archief- en Documentatiewezen
“For citation analysis, Scopus offers about 20% more coverage than Web of...”
– Comparison of PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar: strengths and weaknesses — Falagas et al. 22 (2): 338 — The FASEB Journal
“The purpose of the Library is to preserve the integrity of civilization. The...”
– blyberg.net » The Darien Statements on the Library and Librarians
“Google Ventures seeks to discover and grow great companies - we believe in the...”
– New Google product: Google Ventures
“Co-founder Biz Stone calls Twitter the messaging service we didn’t know we...”
– Colbert Nation | The Colbert Report Official Site | Comedy Central
Where Are Journals Headed?
Why We Should Worry... →
To succeed in the author-pay model, a journal must convince enough authors to submit papers and then it must accept enough of them to make money. Price will vie with prestige. The most prestigious journals will charge more and will attract authors who can pay the cost (grants will help).)
“Twitter Search is an engine for discovering what is happening right now but it...”
– Twitter Blog: The Discovery Engine Is Coming
March 2009
5 posts
“’m worried that Google will be the Elsevier of the future, but magnified by a...”
– Google: de nieuwe Elsevier! « Een beetje adjunct
“Soon pretty much anyone with an internet connection will be using Twitter if not...”
– » Twitter, the Most Important Website Since Google?
February 2009
9 posts
“Wat relevant voor ons is kunnen we alleen zelf bepalen. Informatiesystemen...”
– Microsoft Word - Stellingen bij proefschrift Ynze van Houten.doc
“search will remain the killer application. For most people, it is the reason...”
– Official Google Blog: From the height of this place Jonathan Rosenberg
“Twitter, in other words, is precisely what you want it to be. It can be a...”
– State of the Art - Twitter Is What You Make It - NYTimes.com
“The notion that libraries are a thing of the past and that humankind has...”
– 33 Reasons Librarians are Still Extremely Important - DegreeTutor.com
“The web, Google, and Wikipedia form a kind of “information...”
– Google and the Great Wikipedia Feedback Loop • The Register