habitually probing generalist

Wilson, M. L., & Elsweiler, D. (2010). Casual-leisure Searching: the Exploratory Search scenarios that break our current models. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 22 August 2010. Presented at the HCIR 2010, New Brunswick, N.J. Retrieved from http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/ryenw/hcir2010/docs/HCIR2010Proceedings.pdf When clearing out my aggregator a [...]

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Recently I began reading ebooks. Before I address which books specifically and related issues let me put a few things on the table. Preliminaries: This post is about my experiences in the recent present and not about the future of what will or might be (even if I comment on that). I have read quite [...]

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Sunday, 1 Apr 2007 Paglia, Camille. Break, blow, burn. 2005. Read: William Blake, “The Chimney Sweeper” William Blake, “London” William Wordsworth, “The World Is Too Much With Us” Babik, Wieslaw. “Terminology as a level for the compatibility of indexing languages. Some remarks.” Compatibility and Integration of Order Systems: Research Seminar Proceedings of the TIP/ISKO Meeting, [...]

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Sunday, 11 Mar Paglia, Camille. Break, blow, burn. 2005. Read: Shakespeare, The Ghost’s Speech (from Hamlet) John Donne, “The Flea” Green, Rebecca. “Relationships in the organization of knowledge: An overview.” In Bean & Green, Relationships in the Organization of Knowledge. 3-18. Re-read for Representation & Organization. “Mereology.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Read because Allen Renear [...]

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I had high hopes of doing some serious rewriting tonight based on the input of some very special people. But despite realizing yesterday that I was starting to feel physically better, tonight when I got home it was back to feeling very poorly. Oh well. I am sure I will get over it in time, [...]

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I would shut my eyes but I’ve got promises to keep I can’t go crazy and I can’t get sane And I don’t want to leave—I’d just have to come back again I’ve got nowhere to go but to sleep…. Jolie Holland. “Nothing to do but Dream.” Springtime Can Kill You The pain is pretty [...]

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I am trying to be busier and productive now that I’m a little rested from last week. I am trying to prioritize, and trying not to feel guilty about “owing” various folks here something or other. I’ve been busy and want to mention some of these things here in more detail: The Wailin’ Jennys on [...]

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Siva Vaidhyanathan, of Sivacracy.net, author of several books, and NYU professor, will be at GSLIS on Thursday to deliver this year’s Windsor Lecture. This talk will explore the ways that large-scale digitization projects such as Google Book Search affect those who research and write books. It will examine the ways full-text searches might affect research, [...]

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