Dec 07
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The New York Times has a short piece on a new Google service called Knol that sounds like it could have been conceived by librarians:
“We believe that knowing who wrote what will significantly help users make better use of web content,” wrote Udi Manber, vice president of engineering, on the official Google blog.
The service appears to be a wiki-style hosting service that puts a premium on identifying authorship.
In the past couple of weeks I have had casual discussions with colleagues about the surge of Google in the university sphere. For example, our ...
One of my favorite tech authors, Jeremy Keith, has posted an interesting bit about streaming his life away. It seems that there could be library ...
Perhaps this is old hat to all of you frequent posters, but I quickly scanned the posts and saw nary a mention of this. Anyhow, ...
I’m Nate Vack, working at Wendt Library across campus from Steve. I’m also the latest author on this blog… and I’ll do my best to ...
Pubcookie is pretty neat. It lets you authenticate against a login server without ever personally seeing the user’s password — it’s all handled via clever ...
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Library Topics: authorship, google, hosting service, librarians, service, web content
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