Text Ain’t Metadata
The headline text in that screen grab from the Seattle Times is trying really hard to be metadata and connect these two items based on shared topic coverage. Turns out, …
Kickapoo Ed
Initial excitement over the Knowledge Graph seems to have calmed down somewhat. That’s probably not surprising, as the reality of the first pass on such things does tend to fall …
It ain’t the data that was unstructured.
Photo from wallyg on Flickr under Creative Commons license So we’re told in a report on e-commerce search engines from, incredibly, May 2012. On the surface, the reporter got it …
The Morselization of Information
Wavii delivers morsels of news, five words at a time Five years ago, Twitter’s critics dismissed the idea that news could be transmitted in 140 characters. Now, Adrian Aoun thinks …
A Taxonomy of Urban Ills
Part of my week includes contract work locating and documenting APIs to be listed on ProgrammableWeb.com. One that I found had documented a rather complete taxonomy of urban ills listing all the problems a citizen might encounter in city life.
Netflix to IFLA: Huh?
So count me as +1 for the Netflix customers (or maybe the correct term in Netflix’s case is potential former customers) who are puzzled and disappointed by the company’s remarkably …
Classification by Colors (courtesy of the Famous Librarian)
I’ve been thinking of my friend Harriet, who called herself the Famous Librarian, over the last couple days. I’ve been struggling for some sort of notation on an enumerated classification …
Sipping from the stream
I listened in on a webchat that a friend was helping to organize about how users might benefit from some ‘curation’ of the blurtstream from new-web sources, especially Twitter but also Facebook and wherever else.
Obsolete librarians
Something’s been bugging me since the ALA show, and I think I finally have my finger on what it is. The itch from Chicago returned while discussing with Ivy whether …
Lost in the Computer
Here’s some background on my blog entry about my deep disappointment with complete inability to search up an admittedly extremely obscure citation I needed for some job application situation. The document I wanted …