BibDesk, BibTeX and Subversion – An academic’s necessity
When I first started this PhD program, I had a desire to keep all my references and papers in my computer. Better to search them. Better to keep them in one place. No dog-eared corners and ripped...
View ArticleYour Personal Data and whether Google knows all
Google knows a lot about each of us. If you’re doing anything online these days, you’ll be hard-pressed to do it without Google having a hand in a part of it. Recently, James Thomas decided to not use...
View ArticleTimelined Information Retrieval
I was thinking about how I search through my email this morning and worked out that sometimes I know more about *when* an email happened than what it said or who it was from. This is a rare thing, but...
View ArticleOpenLifeBits – For Your Digital Stuff
I have a proposal. I have been watching and reading about social network portability and data portability and OpenID and facebook beacon and doc searls’ vendor relationship management and Obama’s call...
View ArticleThe Alexandrine Dilemma
Mark Pesce gave a keynote entitled “The Alexandrine Dilemma” at the New Librarians Symposium last Friday. He spoke about how Library Science, its skills and philosophy, are necessary for everyone to...
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