Tag Archives: Todo

New scholar of Oz

By alex | Published: 10/27/2003
The Australian Department of Education, Science, and Training has realeased Changing Research Practices in the Digital Information and Communication Environment. Neat stuff, with a nice minable bibliography. From the introduction: There are a number of inter-related factors driving changes in the ways in which researchers create, access and communicate information. Among the more significant of […]
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Indexing everything

By alex | Published: 10/23/2003
It would be hard to have missed this news, but Amazon.com now provides search functionality within a big chunk of their stock. For example, if I want to find out if I am mentioned in a book, all I have to do is search for my name. Likewise, if you want to get at a […]
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Redrawing the lines

By alex | Published: 10/12/2003
The New York Times has a piece on the effect of cellphone cameras on expectations of privacy, especially in public places: “I don’t want to get all `JFK’ about it, but we’re all being photographed all the time,” said Merlin Mann, 36, of San Francisco, who bought a Sanyo 8100 phonecam, one of Sprint’s newest, […]
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Research to do

By alex | Published: 10/9/2003
Nick Gaydos (via Canter) wants to be able to: * take pictures and have them automatically posted into online albums * jabber a thought into my mobile phone and have it recorded and archived into an mp3, posted on my weblog * record what sites I visit, and keep them tabulated in a calendar * […]
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