organization

Recipelabs: Searching or Organizing?

Not quite from a mainstream news
source, but I recently came across a fun webapp on reddit called www.recipelabs.com . While I consider it far from a proper product, it employs some
really interesting techniques for organization and retrieval.

The Organization and Discovery of Music

http://www.inventinginteractive.com/2011/03/30/music-discovery-and-organization/

In this article, David Young thinks back on the way music was organized.  When he owned cds, his collection was largely piles of "recently played" or "heavy rotation" with a bit of alphabetization here and there.  He also mentions how record stores always suggested obscure and amazing tracks.

Everyone Gets To Be Major Tom


NASA’s contribution to the availability of scientific data through an interactive website called “Eyes on the Solar System” is illuminated in this article from "

More Tools Needed to Sift Through Government Data