A painful truth: Please design and build me a house. I am not quite sure of what I need, so you should use your discretion. My house should have somewhere between two and forty-five bedrooms. Just make sure the plans are such that the bedrooms can be easily added or deleted. When you bring the blueprints to me, I will make the final decision of ...
Author Archives: robinna
Google Books — good enough? a metadata view
Like | robinna | Sep 9, 2009 | metadata, tagging
My presentation [Geoff Nunberg @ Language Log] focussed on GB’s metadata — a feature absolutely necessary to doing most serious scholarly work with the corpus. It’s well and good to use the corpus [fulltext/body] just for finding information on a topic — entering some key words and barrelling in sideways. (That’s what “googling” means, isn’t it?) But for scholars looking for a particular edition of ...
League of Librarian Trading Cards
Like | robinna | Sep 7, 2009 | Libraries
League of Librarian Trading Cards — a little humor for your day http://www.flickr.com/photos/carlsonlibrary/sets/72157622006503335/show/with/3853097266/
technological singularity — what is it?
Like | robinna | Sep 6, 2009 | life 2.0+
The acceleration of technological progress has been the central feature of this century. I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth. The precise cause of this change is the imminent creation by technology of entities with greater than human intelligence. There are several means by which science may achieve this breakthrough ...
How to disconnect twitter from facebook (and how to selectively tweet)
Like | robinna | Sep 3, 2009 | social media, tools/tips, Training, twitter
This post will cover 2 things: how to disconnect your facebook status from twitter and how to set up selective tweeting to facebook. Selective tweetingIn facebook, there is a great application called selective twitter status, which gives you control over which of your tweets go to facebook. Once you add selective twitter to your facebook account and link your twitter and facebook accounts together, all ...
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what is a browser?
Like | robinna | Sep 2, 2009 | life 2.0+, Search engines/browsers
interesting, even though I’m not sure the general person needs to know the difference between a browser and a search engine, especially, as companies like google and microsoft offer both. One is just how you get there and the other is what you use to search. I certainly am not going to uncollapse my category of search engines/browsers here 😉
22 startups funded by facebook
Like | robinna | Sep 2, 2009 | life 2.0+, social media
I won’t list them all here, but backlight looks cool and lots of fun. I am already using Networked Blogs, which is a social network and blog listing service. It also allows blogs to be pulled into facebook. I’ve had some problems with it truncating my posts from contentdivergent and dropping out embedded video, so I may need to look at my settings… or maybe ...
Why use Twitter (and why I twitter)
Like | robinna | Aug 26, 2009 | life 2.0+, networking, social media, twitter
Some time ago, I gave up on the notion that I could be an artist and have a completely private life. The thing with being an artist (musician, writer, painter, director, actor, etc…) is that you need fans. You need supporters. You need people to know about your artwork and support your artwork (both financially and intellectually). So, unless you have an agent working for ...
on nurturing creativity
Three cheers for this ted talk.