I’m still trying to figure out if Twitter has a place in my universe (for one thing, it seems like a lot of trouble to keep up with, and for two things, […]
ResearchBuzz
News and resources covering social media, search engines, databases, archives, and other such online information collections. Since 1998.
Database of Historic Wallpaper
One of the real joys of doing ResearchBuzz is learning about other people’s passion for stuff that I have never really thought about. Did I ever consider that some people love old […]
Get a New Perspective on Wikipedia With WikiDashboard
Several years ago I wrote an essay where I discussed the idea of what I referred to then as “industrial editorship”. The idea in my mind was that the process of gaining […]
Google Spreadsheets Is Already Driving Me Bonkers
I don’t know if anybody else is playing with Google Spreadsheets a lot, but it’s driving me a bit nuts. I got into the idea of importXML, but the way it’s coming […]
Fun With the New York Times Archives
I mentioned earlier this week that the New York Times was going to open part of its archives. Since then I’ve been having fun playing through the older part of the archives. […]