Author Archives: lara

We live in a place that has “curb­side recy­cling.” Kind of a stretch con­sid­er­ing the near­est curb is 9 miles from here but… Every oth­er week we put a huge blue wheel­ie bin in the buck­et of the trac­tor and haul it down to the coun­ty road to be picked up. (The green bins are for … 

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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 … 

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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 … 

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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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