shiny things in messy little piles
In @toread and Cool: Tagging for Time, Task and Emotion, Margaret Kipp looks at the words people use to tag sites in social tagging applications (like del.icio.us) Most tags are, as we expect, tags that name subjects. Car, cat, calculator, and such. Of the non-subject words there are many that seem to fall into two …
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Sites like del-icio.us, while providing an interesting (voyeuristic?) look into what sites other people are finding interesting, are primarily about collecting things for myself and making them refindable. How is refindable different from findable? And further on how can looking at what cues people create for making things refindable for themselves inform what we do …
Quickly folks — it’s almost 5 on friday but I couldn’t pass this up. Alt Search Engines throws up some odd little SEs on it’s Friday round up and this one just came across the feedreader. BananaSlug That’s right our Pacific Northwe(s)t Mascot — the banana slug — has got it’s own search engine. and in …
All search engines are not the same and all search engines do not return the same results. Ask each of the big four search engines the same question and you’ll get four very different sets of answers. Well duh… But just how different are the results? Different Engines, Different Results, published in April by the good …
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The master has a new book out: “Beautiful Evidence.” There’s an interview with him in New York Magazine. I suggest reading it on-line for the simple pleasure of reading something on a site that makes reading on-line if not pleasurable then at least possible. (Check out text sizer control just above the title.) Thanks to InfoDesign …
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