The Google Dilemma
http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1018&context=james_grimmelmann
Google 控制著搜尋結果的排序，直接影響著資訊搜尋者 (經搜尋引擎) 可/會接觸到的資訊，間接影響他們的見解和思維。
內地的谷歌就是一例，著作將情形比喻做敏感性的目錄卡給抽走了，致使搜尋困難。
If the Internet is a gigantic library, and search engines are its card catalog, then Google has let the Chinese government throw out the cards corresponding to books it doesn’t like. There may be sites with full and honest discussion of the June 4, 1989 crackdown accessible on the Internet from China. But when those sites aren’t visible in search engines, we’re back to our field full of haystacks.
由此可見企業良知的重要性有多重要。
p.s. Coyle 無意發現在 Google 的使用偏好設定為「使用最高安全性的網頁篩選」 (Use strict filtering)，然後搜尋 “Lolita”，原來是找不出任何結果的。即是說 “Lolita” 被 Google 定為限制級 (explicit) 用字了。看﹗真的不能小看 Google 這個支配性的目錄櫃的一舉一動。
Coyle’s InFormation – No Lolita
http://kcoyle.blogspot.com/2008/07/no-lolita.html
Related readings
The Official Google Blog – Introduction to Google Search Quality
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/introduction-to-google-search-quality.html
The Official Google Blog – Introduction to Google Ranking
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/introduction-to-google-ranking.html
The Official Google Blog – Technologies behind Google ranking
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/technologies-behind-google-ranking.html
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librarian.net – why search, and search engine law, matters
http://www.librarian.net/stax/2326/why-search-and-search-engine-law-matters/
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Does metadata matter?
造得很簡潔的 metadata 簡介 presentation…
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Lorcan Dempsey’s weblog – “Metadata tends to get more complicated the longer you think about it”
http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/001717.html
Z39.50 說明
XXC’S Blog – SRW: 下一代的Z39.50發展現況[數位圖書館期末報告]
http://www.xxc.idv.tw/blog/xxc/lis/srw_z3950.html
SRW: 下一代的Z39.50 發展現況
http://www.xxc.idv.tw/mt/archives/xxc/doc/SRW_Z39.50_20050621.pdf
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秋聲 Blog – 圖書館相關的API清單
http://soundoffall.blogspot.com/2008/07/api.html
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老貓學出版 – 「單頁起」的緣由，以及為什麼我們不重視？
http://b-oo-k.net/blog/blog.php/2008/389
圖書館有書架放書放 7 成的習慣，出版界就有新章「單頁起」的傳統，為的都是方便新增移位等的變動。
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OCLC – Membership reports – From Awareness to Funding: A study of library support in America
http://www.oclc.org/reports/funding/
OCLC 每年出一大型研究報告，今年剛出爐的是有關圖書館經費的。
From Awareness to Funding: A study of library support in America (Complete report)
http://www.oclc.org/reports/funding/fullreport.pdf
現時公共圖書館與其他品牌、類別、活動等在讀者 (Total Voting Respondents) 心中的定位
(p. 4:11)
在滿足資訊需求那邊︰ “The library is perceived as a service that provides ‘information with a purpose,’ a very crowded space.” (p. 4:12)。
可是不常用圖書館，但屬於經費支持者卻站在 Transformation 那邊︰ “Belief that the library is a self-actualization tool is directly related to level of funding support.” (p. 4:12-13)。
(p. 6:12)
報告最後總結 (公共) 圖書館需要轉型，不單要提供資訊，還要滿促讀者心靈發展上的需要，成為他們與科技/數碼化間的重要橋樑，放眼未來成為社區必不可少的核心基建，以及為個人、家庭和社區帶來實質的經濟回報。(很抽象)
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OCLC News – Latest OCLC research report identifies factors that drive public library funding support in the United States
http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/200826.htm
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The Official Google Blog – “In their own words”: political videos meet Google speech-to-text technology
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/in-their-own-words-political-videos.html
Google Elections Video Search gadget
http://www.google.com/ig/directory?root=/ig&dpos=top&url=www.google.com/ig/modules/elections_video_search.xml
影片的語音辨識，以後都不需要人手做原文字幕了 (很快應可做到粗用的字幕翻譯吧)…
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炭燒地盤佬 – 棚藝
http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/Carbon-Baba/article?mid=1845
香港建築工程的特色 – 竹棚…
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la chambre 501 – 工友Blog友
http://www.rm501.net/?p=586
