Some thoughts about one-man IT shops

[via Dennis Kennedy]

Unfortunately, small law firms do have a lot to learn from this. A long time ago, I did systems admin at a smaller firm. This post will strike a chord with anyone who's done that solo role.

Google Search History as RSS

University of Connecticut - Poll on Government Investigation of Internet Search Engines

"60% Oppose Search Engines Permanently Storing the Search Behaviors of their Users "

Public Knowledge Project

via Michael Lines on the CALL listserv.

Duct Tape Marketing Blog

Very popular for a reason - the voice is real.

business2blog: B2Day : NBC Doesn't Get It

It's all about the apps; PHP has them, Java never will | Roland Tanglao's Weblog

This makes sense to me. 'Ajax=hype' anyone?

FreeMind - free mind mapping software

VentureBlog: Company Building For Eight Year Olds

Lucky kid.

New Paralegal Blog - The Estrin Report

First one I've seen:

The Estrin Report - "Created for professional paralegals -- not of a certain level, specialty or firm -- but of a particular attitude. "

Records Management Blog List

List of Records Managment blogs by Dave Hook (aka The Industrial Librarian).

ASIS&T 2006 Information Architecture Summit

in Vancouver! hmm....

Some Lessons on RSS Ads from Feedburner

The Canadian Privacy Law Blog: Complaint about LSAT fingerprinting

Search for books by ISBN

Search for books by ISBN using this simple application built on the Amazon APIs.

via ProgrammableWeb.com

Gary Price moves to Ask Jeeves

High profile librarian moves to Ask Jeeves from Search Engine Watch. ... no changes to ResourceShelf, thank goodness.

Accelerating Search in Academic Research 2006

via Peter Scott:

"Microsoft Research External Research and Programs has announced a new worldwide Request for Proposals (RFP): Accelerating Search in Academic Research. The RFP due date is March 24, 2006. The total amount available under this request for proposals (RFP) is US$500,000. Microsoft anticipates making approximately 10-14 awards averaging $35,000, with a maximum of $50,000 for any single award"

Moritz Legal Information Blog

New law library blog: "Legal information and research resources brought to you by the Michael E. Moritz Law Library at The Ohio State University"

via Law Dawg Blog

Creating Passionate Users: Mediocrity by "areas of improvement"

Sorting Out the Patent Craze : HBS Working Knowledge

Download 'Access 2005' Presentations

A couple worth noting - Roy Tennant & Michael Geist, but lots of other great topics & speakers.

Ben Goldacre: How I stalked my girlfriend

An interesting read, and has little to do with stalking. Ben Goldacre uses online tools to track his girlfriends' mobile phone (with her permission).

Interesting because of the privacy issues, and just to know how much information your phone company has on you. Did I say 'interesting'? perhaps 'scary' is more appropriate.

Canadian Access to Information Manual

FT.com - Search engines challenged on "theft"

"Services such as Google News link to original news stories on the home pages of newspapers and magazines and display only the headline and one paragraph of the story. "That's often enough" for readers browsing the top stories, Mr O'Reilly said."

More Google copyright issues... Surprisingly, I don't have nearly as much of an issue with this as I do with caching. As I've said in other places... title, abstracts & links with full credit given - ok, but full-on copying of pages without permission, no.

Printable paper rulers

go electronic! ;-)

Check This Out! Law Library Podcast - Episde 13

"with new Canadian Correspondent, Connie Crosby"!