Adobe Plans New Format for Digital Photos

Yahoo! News - Adobe Plans New Format for Digital Photos
Just a head’s up about a new digital image format - could be an interesting web image development in the next couple of years.

One Wired Techie

Just had a surreal techie moment. I have a cold, and am getting one of those cold medicine buzzes from the Dayquil I took an hour ago. I was just editing my blog to add some links. I hit Republish, then got an email from a friend. At the same time, Steve Cohen from Library [...]

OR searching in Google

Yep - just confirmed it. In Google, using a “|” equals using OR.
Example:
Libraries | technology - finds 16,200,000 hits
Libraries OR technology - ALSO finds 16,200,000 hits
Just one of those “hmmm” discoveries.

Use Google to find magazine articles and book exerpts!

I just read about this on Research Buzz - Google is now indexing magazine articles and book exerpts! How cool is that?
Here’s how to search for them:
To find magazine articles, enter this:
libraries site:google.com inurl:articleid
To find book exerpts, enter this:
libraries site:google.com inurl:isbn
And to find both, do this:
libraries site:google.com inurl:isbn | inurl:articleid
My guess is the “|” must [...]

Following eye movement in usability

Eyetrack III - What You Most Need to Know - very cool!
This summary shows what the eye does as it scans a webpage - and believe it or not, “The eyes most often fixated first in the upper left of the page, then hovered in that area before going left to right. Only after perusing [...]

Five “Must Have’s when Planning for a New Tech-based Service

Swiped from Tame the Web: Technology and Libraries: Planning for a New Tech-based Service — Try these.
Five “Must Haves” when planning for a new technology-based service:
Creating policy
Acquiring the Technology
Staffing
Training staff
Promotion
Think about it - can you have one without the other? Let’s see:
No policy - nothing will happen on the staff side, and customers will get [...]

New twist on federated search

In the latest InfoWorld trade mag, there was an article on federated technology from a corporate point of view. Most of the article was boring, but there was one eye-opener, for me anyway: bank ATM machines are basically a federated system… wow! never thought of that before.

Skybox by Jay Rosen: Knight Ridder Election 2004

Skybox by Jay Rosen: Knight Ridder Election 2004
Interesting article about how “the blogosphere” has successfully taken on the current media… and is winning at it.
This reminded me heavily of how internet based news really flourished during the whole Clinton scandal - you went to the web if you wanted up-to-date information.

Bloug Entry (Sep 02, 2004)

Bloug Entry (Sep 02, 2004)
This is good stuff - basically, a list of questions to ask yourself as you design a search feature on a website. These questions would work for searchable databases, site searches, etc. Cool!