tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60318882008-01-02T10:42:23.214-08:00LauraBlogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031888.post-10567515307085377192007-11-09T12:03:00.001-08:002007-11-09T12:11:24.967-08:00

Can I just say, I am very excited about our impending move to Drupal as our website CMS. I'm here at taxonomy bootcamp, where tagging is the new black, and so last night I reluctantly revisited my three and a half year old delicious page, only to discover a few new bells and whistles, such as networks and bundles, that make delicious more of a social networking tool and a little bit more of a

Lauratag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031888.post-1153160688545436532006-07-17T11:15:00.000-07:002006-07-17T11:24:48.546-07:00

I just can't get the hang of Gmail. I'm the kind of person who doesn't keep their inbox very clean, even though I create lots of folders that help me file away emails for future perusal (for example, at work I use Eudora. I have 369 emails in my inbox, 26 folders [i.e. mailboxes], and about 86 sub-folders). So, yeah, Gmail is all about search, not filing. But I can't help myself. If they didn't

Lauratag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031888.post-1153160074555516842006-07-17T11:12:00.000-07:002006-07-17T11:15:41.163-07:00

This is kind of cool. create your own visited countries map

Lauratag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031888.post-1131494520825378502005-11-08T15:59:00.000-08:002005-11-08T16:02:00.826-08:00

I had no idea. All of the basic beautiful people from Orkut are over on Flickr. I found this out from Henrik, who committed Orkutcide. Then I found Adam Rifkin's contacts and browsed them and so many of the old gang are there, and are kindly using their same old handles. Flickr is good for photos, but not so good for Social Networking though. I can't figure out stuff like where to write people

Lauratag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031888.post-1130913295102367662005-11-01T22:32:00.000-08:002005-11-09T09:39:49.406-08:00

I post my photos on Flickr. Like del.icio.us, there's the tag thing. And you can view the "most common tags". And this just strikes me as a very good way to suss out the best keywords for search within a given user environment. I mean, on Flickr, it becomes very clear that beach, wedding, family, and friends are going to work for people as tags. Of course there are authority problems. Some people

Lauratag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031888.post-1118434703939812842005-06-10T13:16:00.000-07:002005-06-10T13:18:23.943-07:00

Apparently my hit counter got re-set somehow. Maybe I should use a different one.

Lauratag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031888.post-1113238848496550492005-04-11T09:48:00.000-07:002005-04-11T10:01:05.420-07:00

So, I took Google Q and A for a real quick spin just now but there's a few things I don't get. I tried, who is peter norvig?" Surprise! I got an answer. But at the beginning of it it says "Property". I didn't know how to interpret that. I guess they're trying to say that the content string (all of 16 words) is property of the attributed source, Wikipedia. I think this could be worded differently.

Lauratag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031888.post-1103752780025355372004-12-22T13:37:00.000-08:002004-12-22T14:10:32.873-08:00

Thanks to Mary Minow for blogging about Google's new library project, which is officially called Google Print. To see it in action, try performing a regular Google search on a classic author. All of the following worked for me: William Blake, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe. Certain subjects will work also, such as English Literature. You'll see "Book results for" with a cute icon of some

Lauratag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031888.post-1103052089607421892004-12-14T09:35:00.000-08:002004-12-14T11:21:29.606-08:00

Whenever Google comes out with some cool new thing I usually rejoice, but sometimes it does feel a bit like they're encroaching on librarian territory. I particularly remember some of my colleagues grumbling about Google Answers. Today they announced their library project. The first article I read was on the CNN Money page, and I couldn't help but feel the rivalry sentiment encroaching. But then

Lauratag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031888.post-1102439486379418932004-12-07T09:03:00.000-08:002004-12-07T09:11:26.380-08:00

It's human to be proud of one's relatives accomplishments, right? I mean after all, if I'm related to somebody smart then maybe my genes aren't too shabby either. When I was 3 or 4 or 5 I had a very vivid dream that I remember describing to my Mom. I told her I had dreamed about God. When she asked what he looked like I said, "Just like Peter (my older brother), only older and with a beard."

Lauratag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031888.post-1098210773374368062004-10-19T11:27:00.000-07:002004-10-19T11:32:53.373-07:00

I don't know what possessed me to play with Blogshares, but it's been several months since I even looked at it. Today, however, I gave it a quick look and I have to admit it was pretty fun to make $1200 in about two minutes. One of the stocks that appreciated significantly was Tiny Little Librarian. I'm not sure, but I might have been the one that got it listed ...

Lauratag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031888.post-1093549213383709412004-08-26T12:39:00.000-07:002004-08-26T12:40:13.383-07:00

I've got more gmail invites available. Email me if you want 'em. (My email is in upper right corner of my blog homepage).

Lauratag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031888.post-1092877698766258922004-08-18T18:05:00.001-07:002004-08-18T18:08:18.766-07:00

One more social networking site. I couldn't help myself. Dot node has an interface remarkably similar to Orkut's, but it doesn't have the page load and time out problems Orkut has. I like it.

Lauratag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031888.post-1092433771516096402004-08-13T14:45:00.000-07:002004-08-13T14:49:31.516-07:00

This guy is always up to something interesting and now there are more things than ever going on in his life. Read this one all the way through to find out about his new reality TV show, his conversion to being a Democrat, and getting busted due to the increasing practice of searching checked baggage (I, for one, am constantly finding those stupid notices in my luggage letting me know they were

Lauratag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031888.post-1092273558606844102004-08-11T18:15:00.000-07:002004-08-18T18:10:16.876-07:00

Several longtime contributors to Orkut are commiting "Orkutcide". I recently posted the following in the Orkut Design community in response to this slightly heavy-handed diatribe by Xah. Someone told me they liked my post, so I decided to share it here also. It goes like this: It is difficult for sincere personal and professional networking to co-exist alongside of frivolity. However, there is

Lauratag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031888.post-1092188541862738892004-08-10T18:37:00.000-07:002004-08-18T18:31:00.130-07:00

Multiply is another social networking service. A big crowd from Orkut is migrating over there. Some of them also use dotnode, tribe, and friendster - some people like to try everything or do it as research. But several people are switching for the sole reason that Orkut's servers can't handle the load - they are victims of their own success. It's fun to watch the early adopters playing with

Lauratag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031888.post-1091752500029239942004-08-05T17:26:00.000-07:002004-08-05T17:36:06.186-07:00

I just found this thing called Blogshares. It's supposed to track data about blogs and tell you their potential value - I thought it was for advertisers looking for places to put their ads, or bloggers trying to figure out if it would be worth it to host Google generated ads. But it turns out it's "a simulated, fantasy stock market for weblogs where players invest fictional money to buy stocks

Lauratag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031888.post-1091581294172381762004-08-03T17:53:00.000-07:002004-08-03T18:03:00.006-07:00

Distributed search seems to be one of the new buzz-phrases floating around. As near as I can tell this refers to things such as being able to search each persons holdings (aack - librarian speak!) on a peer-to-peer network. It also refers to being able to search several libraries catalogs at once with a standard like Z39.50 I always heard the type of search we offer on our website referred to

Lauratag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031888.post-1091580591531527562004-08-03T17:42:00.000-07:002004-08-03T17:49:51.530-07:00

I got my archives set up. I am such a yin yang, all this time I was thinking that I needed to create a separate directory for them, but there really is no need for that. I just realized that Blogger's WYSIWYG editor doesn't work in Safari. One more reason to make Firefox my main browser. I find more and more sites that aren't fully functional in Safari. Unfortunately, I am just a little

Lauratag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031888.post-1091203611158881792004-07-30T09:05:00.000-07:002004-07-30T09:07:08.743-07:00

I was searching for "Avi Rappaport" on the web today, wondering if she might have a blog. Came across this patent related to providing faceted search.

Lauratag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031888.post-1091141705612836612004-07-29T15:49:00.000-07:002004-07-29T15:55:05.613-07:00

The editors at ResourceShelf couldn't help but poke fun at how lost people got when Google was down for a bit on Monday. They offered the following advice, to which I say, Amen and Hallelujah, and I might add, for those that don't know, many of these databases are available to you online, in the convenience of your very own home, once you get your library card and figure out how it works.

Lauratag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031888.post-1090618462513260282004-07-23T14:34:00.000-07:002004-07-23T14:36:10.260-07:00

tee-hee

Lauratag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031888.post-1090601294039074872004-07-23T09:27:00.000-07:002004-07-23T09:48:14.040-07:00

Everyone's discussing the Brazilian invasion of Orkut these days - slashdot, thesocialsoftwareweblog, sociology of online journals, langemark's cafe, boing boing - try a bloglines search for Brazilian Orkut, or Brazilians Orkut. I dashed off the comment below on a few of these blogs - just some quick thoughts that aren't quite expressed as clearly as I would like, but hopefully you'll get the

Lauratag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031888.post-1089910046579783292004-07-15T09:40:00.000-07:002004-07-15T09:47:26.580-07:00

I cannot believe how incredibly cool Bloglines is. Google should jump on it and acquire them! I never understand how people can offer such amazing free resources. What the heck is the revenue stream? No ads, no subscription fees, just an incredibly useful tool for wading through the morass of information available in the burgeoning blogging world. I just don't have time to do much current

Lauratag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031888.post-1087574945412812572004-06-18T09:06:00.000-07:002004-06-18T09:09:05.413-07:00

The Meet Joe Blog article provided a valuable link I hadn't yet had time to track down - the fellow who obtained photos of coffins being delivered to Dover AFB through the Freedom of Information Act. His blog is called the Memory Hole, and the photos are here. Viva la FOIA!

Laura