today i read a paper from ASIST 2008, on a question i’ve wanted to find an answer to for a couple of years now: in head-to-head competition, are folders or tags better for PIM? the paper is “Better to Organize Personal Information by Folders Or by Tags? The Devil Is in the Details” by Andrea [...]
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curt schilling’s blog
yep. this is a post about a baseball player’s blog. sortof. i came across this paper earlier today when i was surfing recent issues of various journals: The Blog is Serving Its Purpose: Self-Presentation Strategies on 38pitches.com. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Volume 13 Issue 4, Pages 912 – 936 This research explored Boston Red Sox [...]
you know you’re working too hard when…
… you’re reading a research paper and you find yourself writing “hilarious!” in the margin next to a paragraph that says: “For instance, several of our subjects used terms for sexual anatomy to refer successfully to some of the figures. Such messages, in addition to producing correct identifications of their referents, probably lead their recipients [...]
referential communication review
There are many different words that can be used to refer to or describe the same thing, idea, action, feeling, whatever, etc. It sometimes seems incredible that anybody ever understands one another; but, fortunately we have the ability to look for cues beyond strict word definitions when inferring what someone means when they speak or [...]
interlibrary loan rocks
At my previous job, we had a corporate librarian. Part of her job description was to fill interlibrary loan requests for books and journal articles we didn’t have access to online or in the corporate library, which happened pretty frequently. I did a lot of legwork on my own, tracking things down in local libraries, [...]
