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 [...]

I’m a big Zotero fan.  Anyone who has access to the Firefox web browser and needs or wants to keep track of bibliographies, websites, and other material used for research should use it instead of the bloated, overly expensive, difficult to use commercial citation managers such as Reference Manager, RefWorks, ProCite, and the like.  Zotero [...]

Lots of nice improvements have been made recently in web-related software and services that I regularly use. Here is a list of the ones I can think of that are worth mentioning:

coComment: This service just keeps getting better. Now it allows me to track conversations via webpages or comments on individual postings. [...]

I’ve been following the development of a new technology called COinS with a lot of interest. Lorcan Dempsey wrote about it last week on his blog and used that post to announce the availability of COinS functionality in Open WorldCat. Great news! If you use the Firefox web browser and have installed [...]

I was excited to get an invitation late last week to download a preview (developer’s) release of the Flock web browser. (If you want an invitation so as to be able to download it, drop me an email at s t o b e r g [ a t ] o b e r g [...]

Google Scholar recently began what it describes as a “small pilot project” with a number of libraries, to link Google Scholar search results through their OpenURL services. See Google Scholar Preferences for a complete list of current libraries participating in the project.
It took me only a few minutes to achieve much the same thing [...]

OK, yes, I confess, I’m a Mac fanatic. I’m also a Mozilla lover. If at all possible, I refuse to use Internet Explorer on my WinXP PC at work. Instead, I use Mozilla Firefox, which gets my vote for the best web browser (or at least, one of the best) currently out [...]

Just proved the usefulness of RSS once again…having heard via MacCentral that today, Apple released a new version of the Safari web browser. Unfortunately the one thing that remains the one problematic site for which I’d like to use Safari, OCLC’s Connexion service, still won’t work in spite of the improvements in this new [...]