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Monthly Archives: January 2006

notes to self re the structure of blogging

Monday, January 23, 2006

Mary Hodder spoke at this conference in November – with some luck I’ll remember to get hold of a copy of her talk on Engines of Meaning. In the meantime I’ve posted a question at the Microformats blog (see sidebar, Research and Search tools) on whether the ability to search the Web for blog posts [...]

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authority to retrieve – what?

Monday, January 23, 2006

I read this post on authority, over at another blog of Peter Morville’s, way back in November sometime  – the guy is everywhere, but his book has yet to be purchased by RMIT Business, dash it all. Link from Euan Semple at The Obvious.
In grad dip library class last semester, our attention was drawn to the [...]

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nifty online publishing tools

Monday, January 2, 2006

Now this is interesting – Writely, a free online collaborative wordprocessing tool, and Basecamp, a web-based project management tool I’d heard of here and there, which has a 30 day free trial. (Link via the comments in this post on Michael Stephens’ library blog Tame the Web.)

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lists matter

Sunday, January 1, 2006

From Wired magazine, the top 10 tech bad moments of 2005:
On balance the tech world’s triumphs far outweighed its failures in 2005. But those who don’t write top-10 lists about the passing year are doomed to repeat its mistakes.

(Link via lextext.)
The Chinese blogging scene rates a mention and another article, here.
Otherwise little will happen [...]

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