Family Man Librarian

I don’t pay as much attention to blog traffic for FML as I probably should. I know there are a lot of things I could improve if I paid more attention to the various details. Instead, I tend to look for trends and broad numbers and that’s about it.
This evening I checked summary [...]

For the past few days I’ve been on a quick conference trip to a meeting in the Washington, D.C. area. The meeting was organized by NISO and was entitled “From Discovery to Delivery: Solutions to Put Your Content Where the Users Are.”
While there was nothing new or startlingly different about the content of the [...]

Last week (or maybe the week before, I forget), the first public beta release of my favorite web browser, Flock, was released. Naturally I was eager to put it through its paces. I’m glad to say that this is an even better browser than before, with one or two exceptions. In my [...]

Karen Schneider’s post on the ALA Techsource blog, “How OPACs Suck, Part 1: Relevance Rank (Or the Lack of It),” is a rant by a librarian who either presents a foregone conclusion due to incomplete research, or one who reaches a conclusion out of misunderstanding. Unfortunately such rants are fairly common. Karen complains [...]

Earlier today I upgraded to the latest beta release of Firefox (1.5 beta 2). One of the new features in the latest release is the addition of Answers.com as a search engine choice. Nice. This weekend, my son, Keegan, asked me what Columbus Day is for. I honestly couldn’t remember. [...]

I am being driven nuts by the fact that I haven’t figured out how to properly redirect traffic (and search engine bots) from my old blog site to the new one. The old blog is at homepage.mac.com/murphymoose/iblog/ and as may be obvious from the URL, was created using iBlog software. A long time [...]

ACM Queue - A Call to Arms - Long anticipated, the arrival of radically restructured database architectures is now finally at hand.
This article on the need for further research and development into new database architectures is pretty interesting. Although somewhat technical in parts, I think I got the gist of it. I found [...]

Some time ago, I read about Grokker, a new type of web search engine that presents results visually in cluster maps (think something like Venn diagrams), rather than in a long series of search results to page through one by one. Put in simple terms, the idea behind Grokker is to enable the searcher [...]

I was reading about Apple’s newest OS X release, nicknamed Tiger, this a.m. There are so many goodies that it is hard to know where to start when describing the things I am excited about. How about a new version of Safari that incorporates an RSS reader? How about an upgraded iChat [...]