Archive for February 5th, 2007
The (Over)Examined Life?
Scott Carlson has an interesting piece in the Chronicle – “On the Record, All the Time” – about “lifelogging,” making a digital record of your life day-to-day. Carlson thinks back to Vannevar Bush’s famous Memex, a method of indexing information by trails of personal associations. He mulls over the implications for learning and memory. Could [...]
Posted: 5 February, 2007 in Privacy, Technology Issues, Worth Reading.
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Academic Libraries Unlikely To Beat Search Engines At Their Own Game
I recall reading statements that suggested our profession was asleep at the wheel during the period when Google emerged as the dominant search engine. Why, some asked, did librarians fail to develop a better search engine since we are search experts? Well those folks may have overlooked just how much capital is needed to actually [...]
Posted: 5 February, 2007 in Technology Issues.
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