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Peter E. Murray

Library technologist, open source advocate, striving to think globally while acting locally

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  • Thursday Threads: History and How-To of Search, DPLA Update, Searching for Jim Gray

    Ahhhh -- with the annual meeting of the American Library Association out of the way and two major holidays (Canada Day and U.S. Independence Day) behind us, the summer can now start. My formal vacation comes next month, and I haven't yet decided what to do with DLTJ Thursday Threads …

     Posted on  July 07, 2011
     and last updated July 08, 2011
     ·  5 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Amazon Pressures Publishers, Academic Spam, Mechanical Turk Spam, Multispectral Imaging

    With the close of the year approaching, this issue marks the 14th week of DLTJ Thursday Threads. This issue has a publisher's view of Amazon's strong-arm tactics in book pricing, research into the possibility that academic authors could game Google Scholar with spam, demonstrations of how Amazon's Mechanical Turk drives …

     Posted on  December 30, 2010
     and last updated January 02, 2018
     ·  5 minutes reading time
  • Three New Search Services: Wolfram|Alpha, Microsoft Bing, Google Squared

    It has been a wild few weeks in search engines -- or search-engine-like services. We've seen the introduction of no fewer than three high-profile tools ... Wolfram|Alpha, Microsoft Bing, and Google Squared ... each with their own strengths and needing their own techniques -- or, at least, their own distinct frame of reference …

     Posted on  June 16, 2009
     and last updated June 16, 2009
     ·  10 minutes reading time
  • Some Navel-Gazing: A Meta-Post about DLTJ

    I usually don't post about the act of blogging itself (I wonder how many middle-aged blogs have a similar post), but the confluence of a couple of things caused me to look at DLTJ with a critical and curious eye. The first was the work by David Pattern in Measuring …

     Posted on  April 20, 2009
     and last updated April 21, 2009
     ·  4 minutes reading time
  • Seeking Details About Mystery Discovery Layer Company

    There is a message floating around the net with a link to a survey about "a completely new online resource discovery service." There is no identifying information information on the survey; obviously the entity that commissioned it wants to remain private. I, however, want to know who this organization is …

     Posted on  September 23, 2008
     and last updated September 24, 2008
     ·  2 minutes reading time
  • Test Driving Lumifi

    Earlier this week, Lumifi Inc. announced a new version of their research platform "to better serve students, professionals and others in dealing with information overload." Lumifi is a private corporation based in Maryland, and this is their second major release of their service. (The first was announced in January 2008 …

     Posted on  September 04, 2008
     and last updated September 04, 2008
     ·  9 minutes reading time
  • What Do DLTJ and BlogHer Have In Common? Only Google Knows

    Web Pages Related to DLTJ.ORG
    With idle curiosity, I was poking around with what Google knows about DLTJ. Perhaps the most interesting piece was the company Google thinks I keep (found via a related:dltj.org search). Now most of the links are quite appropriate (the Library and Information Technology Association and ALA TechSource for …

     Posted on  April 24, 2007
     and last updated April 25, 2007
     ·  1 minutes reading time