I’ve been following (rather sporadically) some of the information about copyright restructuring (aka reform) in New Zealand. Unfortunately, at the moment I feel that I’ve been rather too busy to be proactive and I have turned into a reactive person.
Over the weekend I discovered that the National Library of New Zealand had been trawling the [...]
I was interested to see Dorothy’s post about searching (and tagging)
On the other hand the same teacher instinct was apalled by how little progress we have made teaching people how to search in a way that will return the information they are seeking. Particularly using appropriate key words to refine our searches.
I have been constructing [...]
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The BBC report that if you go looking for “free screensavers” you are highly likely to get a lot more than you bargained for. Researchers used Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL and Ask search engines and discovered that even the well-known search engines would happily point searchers in the direction of sites with that were going [...]
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