The magazine released its list of the Top 1,000 Public Schools in America. The complete list is available online. But as I was scrolling through the list, I wondered “How many of these schools are in Georgia?” The answer? I don’t know because I stopped looking after the third page. Now what could Newsweek have [...]
[3 May 2006]
I mentioned this briefly in the Atlanta PHP May meeting post. Structured blogging is an intiative to provide a standard format for blogging about particular forms of content. The idea is to make it easier to share particular bits of microcontent by publishing it in a consistent form. The Structured Blogging team has developed plugins [...]
[1 May 2006]
Via Molly: A study on gender differences and biases in design. Google now offers fill-in-the-blank style wildcard searching. Via Lifehacker: An Information Week piece on wikis in the workplace. I personally love wikis as a knowledge management tool. I pushed for one at work and found it to be a valuable tool for managing my [...]
[10 Aug 2005]
Thoughts on where tagging and folksonomy might take us: There’s a good reason Yahoo is taking tagging seriously. The trend represents a new approach to organizing and finding information online, and industry watchers expect it to draw people away from the traditional Net search offered by Yahoo and Google Inc. Tagging won’t replace Google et [...]
[6 Apr 2005]
Search Engine Watch featured an article yesterday about hidden data and search engines. From the article: Simon Byers, an AT&T security researcher, used a search engine to find more than 100,000 Microsoft Word files on the web, including business documents and resumes. He then used the free software tools "antiword" and "catdoc" to convert them [...]
[20 Aug 2003]