Monthly Archives: September 2004

Search Engines and Jobs, Oh My

Thursday, October 7, in room 330 of the student union here at UB, Gary Price (one of our graduates) will be giving two talks. Both would be of interest to students in the Media in the Information Age. Hey, they could even blog it! That’s right: real content, for free! 9-11 am: Search Engines, Current [...]
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Looksmart Acquires Furl

I’ve recently posted about Furl, a site that allows you to archive bits of the web that you do not want to disappear. An email went out yesterday to Furl users indicating that it has been acquired by Looksmart. This is a very interesting development, for a few reasons. While discussing Furl with those who [...]
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College Radio Online [At IR5.0]

One of the presentations at Internet Research 5.0 was on the future of college radio in the era of webcasting. David Park, a professor at Lake Forest College. He is the faculty advisor for the college station there, which recently started broadcasting over the web, using a service called Live365. He realized that when they [...]
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At the British Library

[The following was almost liveblogged, but the computer ran out of juice just before it was ready to publish. I am at the University of Sussex, at the Association of Internet Researchers annual conference, and it seems like access to the Internet remains bad every year. Hopefully, next year in Chicago will be better. Over [...]
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Blogs and Archiving

This Saturday morning, I will give a short presentation to a working group of the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) at the British Library on the role of weblogs in archiving (and archiving weblogs). The consortium consists of several national libraries, and our working group has the unenviable task of trying to determine what future [...]
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Remaindered Links

Here are some links I had hoped to post about, but didn’t get around to before the trip: * Horrified Observers of Pedestrian Entertainment – Because someone needs to protest against Paris Hilton. * Stripe Snoop – Software tools for reading and writing stripe data. What’s in your wallet? * Human Development and Capability Association [...]
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Return to sender?

I know how I read this 404 when I picked it up. I wonder what it really means.
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