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How to solve impossible problems: Daniel Russell's awesome Google search techniques - 0 views

  • Most of what you know about Boolean is wrong.
  • Think about how somebody else would write about the topic.
  • Use language tools.
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  • Use quotes to search for phrases.
  • Force Google to include search terms.
  • intext:”San Antonio” intext:Alamo
  • It forces Google to show results with the phrase “San Antonio” and the word Alamo. You won’t get results that are missing either search term.
  • Minus does not equal plus.
  • “Control F” is your friend
  • Limit the time frame.
  • Use this keyboard shortcut to find a word or phrase on any web page. I
Joanne S

Page 2. Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality: Scientif... - 0 views

  • Several threats to the Web’s universality have arisen recently. Cable television companies that sell Internet connectivity are considering whether to limit their Internet users to downloading only the company’s mix of entertainment.
  • Social-networking sites present a different kind of problem. Facebook, LinkedIn, Friendster and others typically provide value by capturing information as you enter it
  • The sites assemble these bits of data into brilliant databases and reuse the information to provide value-added service—but only within their sites.
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  • The basic Web technologies that individuals and companies need to develop powerful services must be available for free, with no royalties.
Joanne S

Page 6. Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality: Scientif... - 0 views

  • Linking to the Future As long as the web’s basic principles are upheld, its ongoing evolution is not in the hands of any one person or organization—neither mine nor anyone else’s. If we can preserve the principles, the Web promises some fantastic future capabilities.
  • Locked within all these data is knowledge about how to cure diseases, foster business value and govern our world more effectively.
  • We should examine legal, cultural and technical options that will preserve privacy without stifling beneficial data-sharing capabilities.
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  • The goal of the Web is to serve humanity. We build it now so that those who come to it later will be able to create things that we cannot ourselves imagine.
Joanne S

Page 5. Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality: Scientif... - 0 views

  • Debate has risen again in the past year about whether government legislation is needed to protect net neutrality.
  • Accessing the information within an Internet packet is equivalent to wiretapping a phone or opening postal mail.
  • Totalitarian governments aren’t the only ones violating the network rights of their citizens.
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  • “No person or organization shall be deprived of the ability to connect to others without due process of law and the presumption of innocence.”
Joanne S

Page 3. Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality: Scientif... - 0 views

  • Web Consortium’s royalty-free patent policy says that the companies, universities and individuals who contribute to the development of a standard must agree they will not charge royalties to anyone who may use the standard.
  • Apple’s iTunes system, for example, identifies songs and videos using URIs that are open. But instead of “http:” the addresses begin with “itunes:,” which is proprietary. You can access an “itunes:”
  • martphone “apps” rather than Web apps is disturbing, because that material is off the Web.
Joanne S

Page 4. Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality: Scientif... - 0 views

  • The Web is an application that runs on the Internet
  • Although internet and web designs are separate, a Web user is also an Internet user and therefore relies on an Internet that is free from interference.
  • Technology for interference has become more powerful
Joanne S

Metz, R. (2011). Understanding the Cloud: an Introduction to the Cloud. Getting Started... - 0 views

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    Metz, R. (2011). Understanding the Cloud: an Introduction to the Cloud. Getting Started with Cloud Computing: a LITA Guide (pp. 13-28). London, England: Library and Information Technology Association. Retrieved from http://edocs.library.curtin.edu.au/eres_display.cgi?url=DC60268502.pdf [5]
Joanne S

Page 1. Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality: Scientif... - 0 views

  • profound concept: that any person could share information with anyone else, anywhere.
  • Web evolved into a powerful, ubiquitous tool because it was built on egalitarian principles and because thousands of individuals, universities and companies have worked, both independently and together as part of the World Wide Web Consortium
  • Large social-networking sites are walling off information posted by their users from the rest of the Web.
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  • Wireless Internet providers are being tempted to slow traffic to sites with which they have not made deals.
  • Governments—totalitarian and democratic alike—are monitoring people’s online habits, endangering important human rights.
  • eb is now more critical to free speech than any other medium
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Joanne S

Backup Overview | dpBestflow - 0 views

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    Krogh, P. (n.d.). Backup Overview. American Society of Media Photographers. Retrieved October 28, 2010, from http://www.dpbestflow.org/node/262
Joanne S

Digital Armageddon for flood victims - 0 views

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    Moses, A., & Grubb, B. (2011, January 12). Digital Armageddon for flood victims. Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved from http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/digital-armageddon-for-flood-victims-20110112-19nfy.html
Joanne S

Librarians rewrite the book on disaster recovery - Storage - Technology - News - iTnews... - 0 views

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    Cochrane, N. (2011, January 18). Librarians rewrite the book on disaster recovery. itnews for Australian Business. Retrieved from http://www.itnews.com.au/News/245107,librarians-rewrite-the-book-on-disaster-recovery.aspx
Joanne S

When the next flood comes will you grab your life raft or keyboard? - 0 views

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    Birmingham, J. (2011, January 24). When the next flood comes will you grab your life raft or keyboard? Brisbane Times. Retrieved from http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/technology/blogs/the-geek/when-the-next-flood-comes-will-you-grab-your-life-raft-or-keyboard-20110124-1a1uq.html
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