This is the paper Kate and I submitted along with our LOTW presentation, rendered into this gorgeous tagcloud by Wordle, a new tagcloud generator I saw today on Information Aesthetics. I love tagclouds anyway - but this one lets you play with layout, fonts and colors in a way I’ve never seen before. You can [...]
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well, not really bad metadata. More like the wrong metadata.
Dipity lets you build interactive timelines. You can pull in all kinds of information sources — video, text, images — and display them in a nice, linear timeline. The interface is easy to navigate. Each item in the timeline can be viewed [...]
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So back in this post, I explained why one reason that I don’t like EBSCO’s new visual search is that they didn’t preserve the fun factor of the old interface. And I stand by that. So I was intrigued when I saw this in my feeds yesterday.
This is Spectra, part of msnbc’s Newsware suite of [...]
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…still thinking about last week’s conversation about the corporate media and what that means for information literacy instruction and the broader idea of library users as informed citizens. A couple of things have come across my screen that seem to fit into this conversation.
First, continuing the theme of cool and awesome visualizations is Muckety, [...]
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For reasons I won’t go into, I recently spent way too much time on the internet looking for magazine scans. (Anyone going to Online NW might soon be able to piece together why). Looking for those I ran across some other things I thought were awesome, even if I’m not always clear on [...]
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Not quite on the heels of why I don’t like Ebsco’s new visual search, parts one and two, there are suddenly all kinds of different ways to search for news and information to try. I’ll admit, I don’t totally get any of these yet. I’ve barely played with them, which is part of [...]
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First off - the SAG awards are tonight, which might be our only awards show opportunity this season and Ryan Seacrest called in sick. It is like it is my birthday.
So this morning Barbara Fister pointed out a recent survey by the Annenberg School (the USC one) - a survey trying to examine “gaps [...]
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it’s totally awesome.
Anyone who’s heard me speak in the last couple of years knows that I am addicted to del.icio.us as an off-site storage space for my bookmarks, and as a knowledge community. And I’m also recently become a regular Google Reader user (making the shift from Sage to a web-based feed reader) because of [...]
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