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…May he lead a timid, uneventful life marked by no accomplishments that anyone would ever care to document online.

Mon, 11/29/2010 - 11:53 — awootton44

I know we’ll spend a lot of time talking about privacy next spring in INFO 205, but over the course of this semester I’ve been reminded several times of this piece from NPR’s On The Media: http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2009/12/18/06. Aired about a year ago, it does a nice job of addressing the personal implications of a world where the line between information organization and retrieval is continually blurring.

"It sounds Greek to me": Classifying the unintelligible across cultures

Mon, 11/22/2010 - 23:21 — angelrh

It is interesting how different cultures classify incomprehensible concepts. In almost every language there is an expression that is used when a concept is not well understood. For example, English speakers say: "This is Greek to me". While in Spanish, when something is not understood, they say "esto me suena a chino" (this sounds Chinese to me). Furthermore, Germans tend to say that it sounds Spanish to them; "Das kommt mir Spanisch vor".

MLB franchises with the longest current World Series crown drought

Tue, 11/02/2010 - 01:24 — donghyuk-jung
Seasons Team Last championship
102 Chicago Cubs 1908
62 Cleveland Indians 1948
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Don't steal that street sign!

Mon, 09/27/2010 - 23:30 — lizzy

Different words means different  things to different people! According to this article, thieves in Georgia keep stealing 3 street signs: Green Acres, Boone's Farm and Mary Jane Lane. Apparently these thieves attribute some meaning to these signs. Perhaps it reminds them of their favorite activities and products?  I, personally, never watched Green Acres or sipped on some fine Boone wine. And the name Mary Jane reminds me of Spider Man, not marijuana.

Remixable Digital Law School Casebooks. Metacrap or Controlled Vocabulary?

Tue, 09/21/2010 - 20:27 — rgeorge

Harvard Law School professor Jonathan Zittrain and his team showcased Collage at the Berkman Center today. What's Collage? It's a tool that facilitates the creation of "an online casebook that's free, remixable and that can be used not just for a specific class, but for instructors" in law schools.

'This and That'

Mon, 09/20/2010 - 23:24 — lizzy

Last week, NYT featured Julius Eulberg, a German who loves collecting antiques, especially porcelain birds. This piece made me think of Kimra's chapter-- especially the part about retrieving the chair. Can you imagine having to fetch one of his 300 + birds? How would he describe it in order for you know which porcelain bird he was talking about?

Religious Search Engines

Mon, 09/20/2010 - 18:25 — kristine

NPR recently featured a story on religiously-specific search engines. These search engines filter all results based on specific religious beliefs. There are currently separate search engines for Muslims, Christians and Jews. Besides the controversy over it being considered censorship, these search engines raise questions on how the returned results are being selected; particularly who is doing the filtering and what criteria is being used.

Artistic Retrivals: Google Books vs Peter Greenaway

Sun, 09/19/2010 - 21:35 — Leslie

This blog would like to explore two different Identification / Organization approaches to explore value in their retrieval results.

Intel and the Context-Aware TV Remote

Sat, 09/18/2010 - 14:47 — kvillariba

In this article, Intel’s Chief Technology officer Justin Rattner talks about context-aware devices that can “learn about who you are, how you live, work and play”. He suggests that future handheld devices will use a variety of sensory technology in order to collect and analyze information about their human user. For example, last Wednesday at IDF, Rattner demoed “a television remote control that figures out who is holding it based on how it is held and learns the viewer’s entertainment preferences”.

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