My presentation [Geoff Nunberg @ Language Log] focussed on GB’s metadata — a feature absolutely necessary to doing most serious scholarly work with the corpus. It’s well and good to use the corpus [fulltext/body] just for finding information on a topic — entering some key words and barrelling in sideways. (That’s what “googling” means, isn’t it?) But for scholars looking
League of Librarian Trading Cards — a little humor for your day http://www.flickr.com/photos/carlsonlibrary/sets/72157622006503335/show/with/3853097266/
The acceleration of technological progress has been the central feature of this century. I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth. The precise cause of this change is the imminent creation by technology of entities with greater than human intelligence. There are several means by which
This post will cover 2 things: how to disconnect your facebook status from twitter and how to set up selective tweeting to facebook. Selective tweetingIn facebook, there is a great application called selective twitter status, which gives you control over which of your tweets go to facebook. Once you add selective twitter to your facebook account and link your twitter
interesting, even though I’m not sure the general person needs to know the difference between a browser and a search engine, especially, as companies like google and microsoft offer both. One is just how you get there and the other is what you use to search. I certainly am not going to uncollapse my category of search engines/browsers here 😉
I won’t list them all here, but backlight looks cool and lots of fun. I am already using Networked Blogs, which is a social network and blog listing service. It also allows blogs to be pulled into facebook. I’ve had some problems with it truncating my posts from contentdivergent and dropping out embedded video, so I may need to look