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Faster is better


When it comes to the Internet, faster is better, just about always. I have been thinking a lot about this since reading a post about this issue in the Official Google Mobile Blog a few weeks ago. In that post the author wrote about how Google used analysis of their search logs to [...]

OCLC: the Microsoft of the Library World?


Recently Roy Tennant joined OCLC and explained his reasons for taking this step in a post on the Library Journal: Digital Libraries blog. Roy is someone whom I admire and respect, a visionary and great communicator about technology and libraries. He has done, and continues to do, a huge amount of great things.
When I saw [...]

Some interesting sessions at EndUser 2006


I may work for Endeavor but I do not intend or want to be a free cheerleader for them here. Yet I can’t resist mentioning a list of presentations planned for EndUser 2006, Endeavor’s upcoming user group conference, that are squarely in the “sweet spot” of discussions that have been going on about social [...]

Use of the term ‘card catalog’ by Google


Am I the only one who finds it incredibly irritating to hear or read about Adam Smith of Google Print, constantly refer to their digitization work as building a ‘card catalog’ of books? HELLO! Card catalog, it isn’t. Please do not refer to it that way, folks. Modern online catalog systems [...]