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11 December 2008 15:17

Begone Searchwiki

Google’s Searchwiki sounded like a good idea at the time. Sign in with your Google account, activate Searchwki, carry out a search and you can promote, or delete entries in your results list and add comments that can be made public. So I had a go. Read More...
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14 October 2008 23:26

Do It Ourselves!

I arrived on the red-eye flight from London>Turin just in time to catch the end of Bonaria Biancu’s workshop at Elisad, Do It Ourselves: Social Technologies for Information Retrieval, so I’m really pleased to see that she has posted a Read More...
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14 October 2008 10:07

Mapping it out for Scotland

A new service for people interested in finding out what Scotland’s libraries, museums and archives holds was soft launched today. The interesting thing about the service is the use of a geographical interface using a Google mashup. Check it out Read More...
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13 October 2008 23:18

Paddington Bear is Fifty

It’s fifty years since Michael Bond launched Paddington Bear on the world. Google is celebrating with what in my biased opinion is their best artwork yet! All about the big 5-0 on the official website and a nice write-up in the Independent. Posted Read More...
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29 August 2008 12:49

Search vs Browse

When I worked full-time as a taxonomy designer for a big international database company, one of my key learning experiences from our user testing was that, no matter how good the browse options you offer, the majority of people will always prefer to search Read More...
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