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Daily Archives Friday, February 2007

Ask Metafilter – Some Thoughts

I recently exchanged a couple e-mails with an MLIS student who was thinking of doing a paper on Yahoo! Answers having seen one of their executives do a presentation at OLA SuperConference.  I suggested that she should focus on Ask Metafilter which is arguably a lot more successful at what it does than Yahoo Answers.  […]

Posted 16 February 2007 § Internet § LibrarySchool § Main Page ‡ Comments (2) °

505 Is Gone

Heard via the grapevine that “505 – Technology” is officially gone as a required course at FIMS.  Here's a bit of background on how this came about…  (Disclaimer: all of the following is from my admittedly-faulty memory of stuff that happened months ago when I was at my busiest point in my final semester.  For […]

Posted 16 February 2007 § Internet § LibrarySchool § List § Main Page ‡ Comments (2) °

The Ten Largest Databases in the World

Library of Congress comes in at #10 on a list of the ten largest databases.  It might be a surprise who is listed as #1 but at the same time, you should take this list with a grain of salt as a lot of these numbers are speculative guesses. (via DiggieFilter which has some discussion […]

Posted 16 February 2007 § Library § List § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °