AP vs. Blogs: Spoiler Alert!
The AP is taking on blogs. They won’t win by fighting.
0 = Initiate Final Algorithm
You may have heard of this elsewhere, a site called “You’ve Been Left Behind” (www.youvebeenleftbehind.com). It’s been created in anticipation of the Rapture. The site will store many megabytes of documents and send these materials under certain conditions to up […]
Applications, Not Publications
Don’t develop publications, develop applications!
Alex Wright on “The Web Time Forgot”
If you attended the keynote for the SSP’s 2008 Annual Meeting, you heard Alex Wright of the New York Times give a fascinating talk about Paul Otlet. Now, in an article in the Times, Alex drills down into some of […]
Information Overload = Too Much Dog Food
An old Silicon Valley maxim exhorts technology firms to “eat their own dog food” (aka, use their own technology). Now they’ve realized they’re eating too much. And so are we.
Read at Work — Clever, Clever, Clever!
Thanks to a Twitter from Jill O’Neill, I was introduced to a very clever little gimmick that turns out to be more than a gimmick. Read at Work is a parody of Windows that buries poems, novels, and satires in […]
Twitter — One Month Later
One month ago, I wrote on this blog that I would begin using Twitter for a month, and see how it worked, both technically and practically. Now, one month later, here are some reflections: Overall, I liked it. I added […]
Nice Mention of SSP in EContent
A nice article in EContent by Heather Hedden about the just-concluded Annual Meeting of the Society for Scholarly Publishing is worth a glance. It was a great meeting!
Blog for Health
Blogging is good for you, or so says a study from the Oncologist as described in Scientific American. Expressive writing promotes biochemical processes: besides serving as a stress-coping mechanism, expressive writing produces many physiological benefits. Research shows that it improves […]
Lois Smith: “Comment-ier” Isn’t Better
Commenting is one option among many for measuring the success of a blog.