mostly research stuff
after reading article upon article about this google-for-scholars bit, i felt compelled to set the record straight on this one - lest folks should imagine that google is in fact driving all change in scholarly search…first of all, i’m not just talking about crossref, which is in fact an open standard - i’m talking about [...]
if you’re like me, meaning that you print, proof and red-pen your serious writing with a freakish fixation on tightening it all up by sporting some kinda mental corset (though i personally could use a gusset), then you no doubt: A) already get the dictionary.com word of the day, B) read ‘news of the [...]
recently, i made a very painful and personal decision to never go to hotbot again (or in boston, ‘neh-vah’)…lamentably, i believe that it’s time to move this tool from assisted living to a full time nursing home, along with lycos if possible… in the famous mental-reference-handbook “on death and dying” by elisabeth kubler ross [...]
i was reading all about x1.com over the past few months, wondering why anybody would bother buying, since both apple’s os and microsoft’s longhorn are releasing better integrated local client search utilities…oh, and also because there are already a bunch of other companies going after this market for desktop search…namely el Goog …oh, and also [...]
pick me! pick me! …it’s when you have to register ‘for free’ just to read something and give up valid private info (real email), even if you do make up a stupid fake name (well, at least i still make up stupid names)…but no longer! a group with the tagline, “Common sense isn’t” has produced [...]
this blog is mostly safe for work, though i sometimes throw around a 'fuck' or two. you'll find a bunch of my articles from CI Magazine, SCIP online, other research pieces and some other crap. enjoy. there's lost of content here related to getting information about, around, from and through people and organizations...