Author: fioritto

Relive America’s Past [1].

Relive America’s Past. “ProQuest Releases Complete Digital Backfile of The New York TimesThis file begins in 1871 and runs to 1999. It includes over 25 million articles. From the news release, “Every backfile issue of The New York Times has been digitized from cover to cover, including news stories, editorials, photos, graphics, and advertisements. Searchers can use basic keyword, advanced,…

First Monday: After the Dot-Bomb…

First Monday: After the Dot-Bomb. Described below are some “pet peeves,” some problem areas identified in the design of Web information retrieval to date. These problems are accompanied by suggested solutions, or, at least, directions to go in to develop solutions for the next round of Web information retrieval development. [Tomalak’s Realm]

Connecting technology systems and systems-thinking…

Connecting technology systems and systems-thinking. Self-herding Cats. From Michael Helfrich’s weblog: Technology Confined Collaboration? Collaboration is about people. Collaboration needs technology frameworks that support adaptive, ad hoc interactions. Adaptive from the sense of extending functionality on the fly and securely embracing new members on the fly. Simply put, it’s the swarming culture fused with adaptive technology. [High Context] Also from…