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Saturday, November 29, 2008
Week 13 Readings and Muddiest Point
No Place to Hide.net
It is interesting, unsurprising, and a little frightening to see what has been put together on this site. I understand wanting to make people feel safe and increase national security, but I think Ben Franklin said it best: Those who would trade liberty for security deserve neither.
TIA and data mining
The best part of this is knowing that the TIA is no longer around. I hate the idea that innocent web searches for something controversial could lead to me being profiled and watched at a distance forever. The government just should not have that much power over the public. It is not cool.
Youtube video
Has been taken down because of a copyright thing or something.
Muddiest Point
How does a library better increase communications with users? How can a library ensure that users will actually utilize Library 2.0 technologies, especially for the users who are not technologically literate?
It is interesting, unsurprising, and a little frightening to see what has been put together on this site. I understand wanting to make people feel safe and increase national security, but I think Ben Franklin said it best: Those who would trade liberty for security deserve neither.
TIA and data mining
The best part of this is knowing that the TIA is no longer around. I hate the idea that innocent web searches for something controversial could lead to me being profiled and watched at a distance forever. The government just should not have that much power over the public. It is not cool.
Youtube video
Has been taken down because of a copyright thing or something.
Muddiest Point
How does a library better increase communications with users? How can a library ensure that users will actually utilize Library 2.0 technologies, especially for the users who are not technologically literate?
Monday, November 24, 2008
Friday, November 21, 2008
Week 12 Muddiest Point
Week 11 Muddiest Point
How accessible are digital libraries to the public? How likely is an average person to use digital libraries successfully or at all?
How accessible are digital libraries to the public? How likely is an average person to use digital libraries successfully or at all?
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Friday, November 14, 2008
Week 10 Muddiest Point
How does bag of word representation actually work? What good is it if it can't distinguish synonyms or two words with different meanings?
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Friday, November 7, 2008
Week 10 Readings
Web Search Engines
part one
There's lots of internet for a search engine to search, so they have to use sooper seekrit algorithms to find relevant, reliable sites and to avoid spammy sites.
part two
There's something about indexers that also help generate and sort search results and other things that make search engines useful.
The Deep Web
Apparently, search engines miss lots of information that is buried under the surface of the internets, like the ocean. This article discusses using directed queries to searchable databases to reach the content in the Deep Web.
Current Developments and Future Trends
This article discusses how people are using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata harvesting and how they will be using it to sort and collect information and content .
part one
There's lots of internet for a search engine to search, so they have to use sooper seekrit algorithms to find relevant, reliable sites and to avoid spammy sites.
part two
There's something about indexers that also help generate and sort search results and other things that make search engines useful.
The Deep Web
Apparently, search engines miss lots of information that is buried under the surface of the internets, like the ocean. This article discusses using directed queries to searchable databases to reach the content in the Deep Web.
Current Developments and Future Trends
This article discusses how people are using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata harvesting and how they will be using it to sort and collect information and content .
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