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Monthly Archives: March 2007

alt publishing

Monday, March 26, 2007

If you want to get books in bookstores, Lulu’s not the way to do it: The production costs are too high. If you want to produce a special item for a handful of people or do a book that you know won’t get into bookstores anyway (how many of my books have you ever seen [...]

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the semantics of search – is it Web 3.0 yet?

Monday, March 26, 2007

Richard McManus of Read/WriteWeb has been talking to the founders of a semantic web search engine that has a focus on natural language processing methods and analyses sentences in order to perform searches.
Hakia will come out of beta towards the end of 2007. The CEO of Hakia, Riza Berkan, was invited to make comparisons between [...]

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some thoughts on Library 2.0: After Thomastown

Tuesday, March 6, 2007

It was great to get an invite to assist at the first Library Unconference in Australia which was held last Friday at Thomastown Library and very ably facilitated, using Open Source technology, by Christine Mackenzie and the team from Yarra Plenty Regional Libraries, who have recently completed the Charlotte-Mecklenburg program, 23 Things.
I teamed up [...]

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