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“Google Base is a collection of many independent data sets all stored on a common platform. Metaweb is a single unified database carefully constructed from many diverse data sets.
Imagine you were seeking information on a specific digital camera such a
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“The really great thing about digital publishing tools and mobile devices connected to the Internets is that we have almost reached to the point where we can toggle seamlessly … between physical and digital artifacts without needing to say really assini
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“First, StreamBase actually has two “languages” — one is based on SQL, and one is based on graphical boxes-and-arrows. They’re equally expressive, but the differences extend to more than just surface syntax. Stream processing is a relatively new paradigm
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“When were the scrolls published?
Most of the early discoveries were published within a few years of discovery. The thousands of fragments found in Cave 4 (the richest site of all) required longer to reconstruct and translate. The tiny C
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“Looooongshot evidence of Jesus’s genealogy (Ralph-arcane)”
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This sounds like the exhibit I saw in Mobile a couple of years ago.
“The first room of the walking exhibit focuses on the discovery of the scrolls. The best feature beyond the wall posters is a nice, life-sized model of a cave (think nook and cranny) wit
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“It was a soldier who made the most lasting impression. Earl Wardell, who worked for the Joint Chiefs, said things I would never have thought a soldier could say to a crowd like us. Conventional command-and-control wasn’t working. The enemy had mastered
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“I recently heard an interview with E.O. Wilson in which he was asked to react to the critiques of religion that Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins have famously been making. The problem isn’t religion, Wilson said, it’s tribalism. The two often coincide
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“The kinds of standard affordances that we take for granted on the textual web — select, copy, reorganize, link, paste — are missing in action on the audio-visual web. The lack of such affordances in our current crop of (mostly) proprietary media play
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See “In the beginning was the command line”
“One of my favorite business model suggestions for entrepreneurs is, find an old UNIX command that hasn’t yet been implemented on the web, and fix that. talk and finger became ICQ, LISTSERV became Yahoo! Groups
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I heard him on Cambridge Forum just now talking about how the last few elections have been stolen.
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Susan has found this to be a wonder resource for ideas for including teens in the library community.
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“This web site is designed to provide information pertaining to all areas of the survivors life. The Late Effects Assessment allows you to build an assessment of late-effects specific to your diagnosis and treatment.
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This article makes a distinction between long-term effects and late effect.
Also, most articles I found about late effects focus on children. This does not.
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“For years people undergoing cancer treatment have described their minds as being in a fog — unable to concentrate and remember details about their everyday lives. Doctors and researchers knew something was wrong, but they couldn’t pinpoint what it was.
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I heard Nasr this afternoon in the 1 o’clock slot.
“About 15 percent of Muslims worldwide are Shia. In Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, and Bahrain, Shia constitute a majority or plurality of the populace, and areas of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia (in the latter, the o
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“Copyright began as a tool of censorship used by the Crown, became a type of trade regulation, and then was established as a private property right, Mary says. The tropes we use to talk about it derive from that history. These tropes have been deconstruct
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“It is a case of arranging concrete materials - books and other kindred materials - in such a way that one kind of arrangement presents itself to one person and another kind to another person. To secure this by pressing a button is obviously possible only
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“I truly don’t understand why I enjoy this so much. It is not a devilish delight in finding that we really don’t understand a prominent member of the canon. I love Hamlet all the more for having its ambiguity exposed. Truly. Obviously, the richness of
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But just who are these suicide bombers and what’s motivating them to act? Scott Atran is a research scientist at the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris and at the University of Michigan. His article, “Who wants to be a martyr?” appeare
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“Did you know that well over half of the requests seen by del.icio.us are for RSS feeds? That means that people cruising around our site in browsers are actually in the minority, when it comes down to raw traffic. Instead, our heaviest hitters include pe
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“Joshua Porter writes “9 Lessons for Would-be Bloggers: A few lessons learned in 7 years of blogging” — and I disagree with every one of his lessons, based on the experience that comes with 20+ years of writing and editing, and running three blogs and tw
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“A researcher at Canada’s National Research Council has a provocative post on his personal blog predicting that the Semantic Web will fail. The researcher notes the rising problems with Web 2.0 — MySpace blocking outside widgets, Yahoo ending Flickr ide
