Friday, December 23, 2005
Over at the new librarians’ listserv I subscribe to, there’s been some debate on the value of Wikipedia as a reference tool, triggered by the Seigenthaler affair.
One librarian mentioned two points in Wikipedia’s favour – firstly that she felt Wikipedia was useful for acquiring information quickly about very topical matters or popular culture, and secondly [...]
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
On StructuredBlogging, from Software, Stupid, here.
Whilst fooling around with blogs, I also found this link to the HP Semantic Blogging research project, and promptly sent it to one of my lecturers who I thought might be interested (and he was).
Also a link on a call for input into the Collaborative Tagging workshop at WWW2006, [...]
Friday, December 16, 2005
Over at Alexa, an extensive list of popular websites can be found which places Google a mere third behind Yahoo and MSN.( This link from Belinda Weaver.)
While Alexa has done this research, as Danny Sullivan of SearchEngineWatch has asserted in the past, this does not of course make it particularly reliable, however it is an interesting list [...]
Thursday, December 8, 2005
In the LiveWire insert, part of the Green Guide accompanying today’s Age, an article by David Adams suggests that bloggers assist the information overloaded by creating portals. He describes this function fleetingly, almost as an afterthought, without giving any real background:
When it comes to relevance, search engines are becoming smarter and new technologies such as Rich [...]
