Reference Is Better Than We Thought “The point is that in prior studies of reference service, accuracy has usually meant some number of judges scoring ten or 20 so-called typical questions on a scale ranging from “completely answered” to “not answered at all.” The results of these studies, unfortunately, are all too familiar: half-right reference… Continue reading Reference Is Better Than We Thought
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Weblog Bookwatch
Weblog Bookwatch. “I thought it would be interesting to see which books are being mentioned most frequently on weblogs. Weblog BookWatch keeps track of weblogs that flow through the recently changed list at weblogs.com and searches for links to Amazon.com. Then it looks at the ISBN in the link's URL, and counts the link as… Continue reading Weblog Bookwatch
Businessweek
This week's special report from Businessweek is about The Corporate Net. Unfortunately, I don't have time to read these right now, but they (and the others I'm not listing) might be of interest to you. Business' Killer App: The Web – “No, this isn't Dot-Com Delusion Act II. It means adding a couple of points to… Continue reading Businessweek
unusable
Yahoo finance is a great webapp. It gets more traffic than all the other financial sites combined (CBS marketwatch, CNBC, etc.). It's so good (or at least it was), that most of the brokers on Wall Street use it instead of their internal systems. However, it is (like most of Yahoo's services) so full of ads now it's… Continue reading unusable
Greg Smith
Greg Smith has an excellent demo app that combines Filemaker Pro and Manila. It also works with Radio on the desktop. >>>As we said, this is a Manila site but, importantly, its full 'database driven' functionality can be equally deployed within Radio Userland on your own desktop! All you need is the 'webservice macro' (a… Continue reading Greg Smith
Desktop webservices and composite applications. One of the most exciting aspects of desktop webservices is that I can build pages on my desktop that automatically aggregate data from across the web and from webservice enabled corporate applications. This is effectively a personal portal that could include search (Google) of the Web/LAN/desktop, financial info from a place like Yahoo finance, corporate sales data, corporate financial data, corporate inventory data, news (RSS), and even data from peer web services (data entered or auto-aggregated by co-workers in a structured format — contact lists, bookmarks, calendar entries, spreadsheets, etc.).
Better yet, I have complete control over the presentation of that data. With a little programming effort, I can incorporate business rules (with tools that can be automated for me) that do things for me based on that data. I could also attach a post button to all the data I collect so its easy for me to share it with co-workers via my weblog. It puts me in control.
This is the ultimate composite application. A borg that consumes all others. I don't want to learn or interact with hundreds of different websites or application specific clients. I want it all on my desktop, running in my browser, where I can modify, manipulate, and publish it. [John Robb's Radio Weblog
Desktop webservices and composite applications. One of the most exciting aspects of desktop webservices is that I can build pages on my desktop that automatically aggregate data from across the web and from webservice enabled corporate applications. This is effectively a personal portal that could include search (Google) of the Web/LAN/desktop, financial info from a place… Continue reading Desktop webservices and composite applications. One of the most exciting aspects of desktop webservices is that I can build pages on my desktop that automatically aggregate data from across the web and from webservice enabled corporate applications. This is effectively a personal portal that could include search (Google) of the Web/LAN/desktop, financial info from a place like Yahoo finance, corporate sales data, corporate financial data, corporate inventory data, news (RSS), and even data from peer web services (data entered or auto-aggregated by co-workers in a structured format — contact lists, bookmarks, calendar entries, spreadsheets, etc.).
Better yet, I have complete control over the presentation of that data. With a little programming effort, I can incorporate business rules (with tools that can be automated for me) that do things for me based on that data. I could also attach a post button to all the data I collect so its easy for me to share it with co-workers via my weblog. It puts me in control.
This is the ultimate composite application. A borg that consumes all others. I don't want to learn or interact with hundreds of different websites or application specific clients. I want it all on my desktop, running in my browser, where I can modify, manipulate, and publish it. [John Robb's Radio Weblog
Catholic Church Feels a Sense of Urgency Over Scandal
Catholic Church Feels a Sense of Urgency Over Scandal. American cardinals have been called as a group to Rome to confer on problems before, but never on such short notice, and never in such an atmosphere of emergency. [New York Times]
Creating a Credit Card Validation Class With PHP
Creating a Credit Card Validation Class With PHP. WebmasterBase Apr 16 2002 7:17PM ET [Moreover – moreover…]
National Library Week 2002
National Library Week 2002. Oh, in case anyone forgot, this is National Library Week…. [LibraryPlanet.com]
interviews John Weir
James interviews John Weir, site developer for the International Herald Tribune site. The International Herald Tribune debuted several months ago with a little fanfare in the web design community, though it is one of the most innovative approaches yet for a traditional newspaper's online presence. Combining DHTML and content management to in essence create a… Continue reading interviews John Weir