Class work: lecture notes on Social Knowing, etc.

Examining an academic database social knowing publish then filter lab exercise Books we think of being static, concrete tangible things we get answers.  But over time, books are a slower conversation or a forum on the topic, then today's blogs, and forums. Information cloud-editor-publisher-distribute-consumer. information cloud-users as editors - communities - users as users The …

Reading Response to: “The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine”

creating a web search engine is not an easy task for an ever increasing growth of the web, however, with today's technologies, the technical part of improving its infrastructures is getting easier and cheaper.  The improvement of the search quality is the main goal here.  If I understand it correctly, the problem here is the …

Class work: Comparing PsycINFO and Google search engines

searching for "educational system in America" Google scholar: came back with the result of 3.2 mil. hits. CSA web: came up with 249 publications ---------------------------- Google: searched instead of "Find articles with all of the words" i used a different field to "Find articles with all of the words with the exact phrase" which narrowed …

Class work: Lab on delicious, bookmarks, tagging, comparing, and searching

I have chosen to add local multimedia production houses both public and private to my list of bookmarks on delicious.  When compared my tagging to others I found it interesting that mostly our tags matched one another.  For example: Portland Community Media website has tags that reflect geographical location, type of business and type of …