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Sorry About The Typos!
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Sorry About The Typos!

I discovered belatedly that the Microsoft Word template my publisher had given me was suppressing spelling correction. My bad, I should have realized something...

Mathew Ingram: Google Helps Newspapers
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Mathew Ingram: Google Helps Newspapers

Mathew Ingram at The Nieman Journalism Lab wrote a post today entitled “Google helps newspapers

Mathew Ingram: Google Helps Newspapers
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Mathew Ingram: Google Helps Newspapers

Mathew Ingram at The Nieman Journalism Lab wrote a post today entitled “Google helps newspapers

All Set On Reviewers!
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All Set On Reviewers!

On Friday, shortly after sending a copy of my Faceted Search manuscript to my publisher, I put out a call for volunteer reviewers. The response has been overwhelming...

All Set On Reviewers!
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All Set On Reviewers!

On Friday, shortly after sending a copy of my Faceted Search manuscript to my publisher, I put out a call for volunteer reviewers. The response has been overwhelming...

Is Differentiated Content Enough To Save Newspapers?
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Is Differentiated Content Enough To Save Newspapers?

The Guardian headline sums it up: “Big newspaper sites ‘erode value of news’, says Sly Bailey“. Sly Bailey is the

Is Differentiated Content Enough To Save Newspapers?
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Is Differentiated Content Enough To Save Newspapers?

The Guardian headline sums it up: “Big newspaper sites ‘erode value of news’, says Sly Bailey“. Sly Bailey is the

Plan to Attend SIGIR
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Plan to Attend SIGIR

SIGIR 2009 will be held in Boston, Massachusetts, at the Sheraton Boston Hotel and at Northeastern University. The conference will run from July 19-23, 2009. Even...

Plan to Attend SIGIR
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Plan to Attend SIGIR

SIGIR 2009 will be held in Boston, Massachusetts, at the Sheraton Boston Hotel and at Northeastern University. The conference will run from July 19-23, 2009. Even...

AmazonFail = TaxonomyFail?
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AmazonFail = TaxonomyFail?

By now, #amazonfail seems like old news (yesterday’s detwitus?), though apparently Amazon’s PR folks are still doing damage control. But what intrigues me was something...

Booking it to the Finish Line
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Booking it to the Finish Line

To my delight–not to mention the delight of my family, colleagues, and publisher–I’m almost done with the book! I went into this project suspecting that book writing...

Booking it to the Finish Line
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Booking it to the Finish Line

To my delight–not to mention the delight of my family, colleagues, and publisher–I’m almost done with the book! I went into this project suspecting that book writing...

Enterprise Search is Green
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Enterprise Search is Green

While I’m all for eco-friendly goods and services, I don’t usually think of my work as helping to save the environment. But this post from Vivisimo Chief Scientist...

The Craft of Exploratory Search
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The Craft of Exploratory Search

Posts like this one from Gene Golovchinsky make me feel sad that I didn’t actually attend CHI, though I’m glad I did get to hang out with the exploratory search...

The Craft of Exploratory Search
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The Craft of Exploratory Search

Posts like this one from Gene Golovchinsky make me feel sad that I didn’t actually attend CHI, though I’m glad I did get to hang out with the exploratory search...

CACM Article on DB/IR
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CACM Article on DB/IR

In my rush to finish writing my book this month, I haven’t had much time for reading. But I did notice an article in the April ‘09 issue of Communications of the...

CACM Article on DB/IR
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CACM Article on DB/IR

In my rush to finish writing my book this month, I haven’t had much time for reading. But I did notice an article in the April ‘09 issue of Communications of the...

CACM Article on DB/IR
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CACM Article on DB/IR

In my rush to finish writing my book this month, I haven’t had much time for reading. But I did notice an article in the April ‘09 issue of Communications of the...

DeWitt and Stonebraker vs. MapReduce, Round 2
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DeWitt and Stonebraker vs. MapReduce, Round 2

A few months ago, database titans David J. DeWitt and Michael Stonebraker wrote

The SEO War On Terror
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The SEO War On Terror

I try to keep this blog apolitical, but this is just too funny and sureally on-topic to pass up. According to The Register, the British Office of Security and Counter...
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