Remember the spaghetti cat? Flipping the switch on the Large Hadron Collider? Their online popularity has earned them a place in the Internet Meme Timeline, which charts pop-culture high points on the Internet since 1970. Of course, the timeline includes a marker in 1976 for “meme,” the word coined by geneticist Richard Dawkins to describe [...]
When a large-ish company declares bankruptcy or multiple retrenchments, the news reports often include a quote from a union representative about wanting to ensure that employees receive their entitlements.
This means the employees should be paid any salary and allowances owed to them, and they should have access to fully paid-up superannuation accounts. These payments are [...]
In an article for First Monday, Scott J Simon summarises the current environment and challenges for digital libraries. He outlines the basic concepts of information architecture and explores how IA can enhance the provision of search and other online library services. [tip o' the blogging hat to Jonathan]
At the University of Minnesota a MyLibrary portal [...]
As I ponder the manyseveral challenges of a current project — which aims to convert “80 per cent of all our forms into machine-readable format” — this Wondermark cartoon reminds me that forms are only one small part of any business process or transaction.
Similarly, the Dilbert strip for 21 December 2008 has a particular resonance [...]
According to a series of studies by Carol Kuhlthau and her colleagues, searching for information on a particular topic can involve an emotional journey.
Given an essay topic, for example, you start with optimism, confident that some useful information will emerge from your initial search. As you acquire facts about the topic you start to feel [...]