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October 27, 2006

How would you like your mouse chopped?

A colleague forwarded me a link to Butt Kicking Librarians. It is fantastic and it seems to blow the top off of a closely guarded secret. Librarians are very interesting people.

I have very eclectic tastes and as I have taken classes in dance, stone carving, folklore, beading, Gaelic, etc. there is usually at least one other librarian in the class with me. In my stone carving class there were four of us. What interesting hobbies or skills do you have?

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October 26, 2006

Ms. Dewey

Great post from Library Thing

Thing-ology Blog
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
I smell a cease-and-desist letter
Have you seen MsDewey.com? It’s an odd, somewhat diverting “search engine,” with terrible results, but featuring a funny—and hot, albeit scary-hot—actress who flirts with you, insults you and generally hams it up to the questions you give her. Play around, but ones like “Kiss me!,” “How old are you?” and anything mentioning Bush have specific responses. The calculator to the right came out in order to insult my manhood! (more)

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The Citizendium Project

Have you heard about Citizendium yet? It is similar to Wikipedia only different. Read all about it…

Introduction

The Citizendium (sit-ih-ZEN-dee-um), a “citizens’ compendium of everything,” will be an experimental new wiki project that combines public participation with gentle expert guidance. It will begin life as a “progressive fork” of Wikipedia. But we expect it to take on a life of its own and, perhaps, to become the flagship of a new set of responsibly-managed free knowledge projects. We will avoid calling it an “encyclopedia,” because there will probably always be articles in the resource that have not been vouched for in any sense… MORE

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October 24, 2006

This is what all the excitement is about

If you want to go directly to the Google link and create your own search engine here is the link http://google.com/coop/cse/

This is what it looks like:

Custom Search Engine

Harness the power of Google search to create a free Custom Search Engine that reflects your knowledge and interests. Specify the websites that you want searched - and integrate the search box and results into your own website.

Build and customize your own search engine
Specify the sites you want to include in searches.
Place a search box and search results on your website.
Customize the look and feel to match your website.
Invite your community to contribute to the search engine.
Make money from relevant ads in your search results.
Learn more: FAQ and featured examples.
Already have a Custom Search Engine?
Check out your search engine’s homepage and control panel on your My search engines page.

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More about customized search engines

This is anotrher interesting article that appeared Oct. 24, 2006 about “customized” search engines. Maybe because it appears in CNNMoney.com but, I find it interesting that this feature can be used to generate revenue. Very interesting…

Google launches personalized search engine
With new service, users can create customized searches of specific Web sites and even generate advertising revenue, company says.
October 24 2006: 7:56 AM EDT

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — The online search giant Google Inc. unveiled a new service Monday that allows users to create their own personalized search engine for their own Web sites or blogs.

The free service, dubbed Google Custom Search Engine, allows organizations or individuals to create a customized, content-focused search engine, that can be limited to specific Web sites, ultimately allowing users to create a search engine around a specific topic such as a sports team, according to the company.

Users of the customized search engine can even adjust its look and functionality or use Google’ AdSense program and ultimately generate revenue, Google said…MORE

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User created customized search engines

From Gary Price’s Resource Shelf…

Search Engine Watch Blog and News.com report that Google has launched a tool that allows users to create “customized” search retrieval engines. Surprised? ResourceShelf is not.

In the past few weeks we’ve seen a similar tool from Yahoo and then from MSN Live Search…MORE

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October 23, 2006

Happy Birthday iPod

Ah the iPod! It is hard to remember what life was like before these babies….Wait I still don’t have one!

Apple’s iPod is turning 5

The ubiquitous device has sparked frantic growth for Apple - and revolutionized the music business.
By Grace Wong, CNNMoney.com staff writer

October 20 2006: 11:10 AM EDT
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Apple’s iPod celebrates its fifth birthday Monday, marking a milestone for the music player that not only reinvigorated the “other” computer maker but revolutionized the way people buy and listen to music.

When Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the first iPod on Oct. 23, 2001, he said: “With iPod, listening to music will never be the same again.”…MORE

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Are teachers and computers responsible for plagiarism?

Very interesting and thought provoking article from the United Kingdom, that appeared in Ars Technica
on Oct. 20,2006. It dares to ask some tough questions…

Are teachers and computers responsible for plagiarism?
10/20/2006 11:59:37 AM, by Nate Anderson

Plagiarism, always a problem, has exploded into an epidemic at universities as the Internet and article databases now make it simple to cut and paste; students increasingly grow up in a “Rip. Mix. Burn.” culture that is used to slinging digital material across the world without giving too much thought to copyright. But is it really the students who are to blame? Baroness Deech, who heads the UK’s student complaint agency, argues that teachers and technology share the responsibility….
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October 17, 2006

Which Search Engine is Better?

Tired of trying to figure out whether Yahoo is better than Google or vise versa? Try looking at the Search Engine Watch Blog.

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October 13, 2006

(Humor) Products Google Should Develop

Great <essay by Evan Eisenburg that appeared in Time on products that Google should consider developing. Really, who wouldn’t want such great services as Ex Search (Find out if they’re seeing anyone,) Koogle (Find Recipes for potato or noodle pudding,) Blobber (Impose your consciousness on the rest of humanity,) and Garble (Translate ordinary speech into legalese, adspeak, Bushspeak and dozens more,) just to name a few.

When you print this page, it is suitable for hanging in your cubicle.

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