a tantalizing glimpse into the day-to-day life of a primitive Internet society

KNOXVILLE, TN—A 1995 e-mail extracted from the hard drive of a recently unearthed Compaq desktop PC offers a tantalizing glimpse into the day-to-day life of a primitive Internet society, said the archaeologists responsible for its discovery.

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Technology Blogs

My initial impression of Blogging was that most contributors suffer from Blogorrhea.
That is, an inability to control the output.

In order to offer a somewhat informed comment on Blogging I decided to search for some of the better examples of technology Blogs.

This lead me to an article by Laura Gordon-Murnane in the March, 2006 volume of Searcher.

Here is the persistent link (if you have access to the UWO proxy server).

Here are just two of the more interesting technology Blogs identified in the article:

C|net's Blog.News.com. & Brian Sewell's Future Wire - futurism and emerging technology.

It seems that a key to successful blogging is a simple marketing axiom: know your target audience.

Library Quote for today:

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
Jorge Luis Borges

Library Quip of the Day

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
-
Groucho Marx

LIS 525 Blog: Day One

This constitutes the debut entry for the With The Current Blog.

In due course content of a riveting nature shall be added.

Until that time I will have to ask you to be satisfied with a photo of my girls at the Halifax Harbour.

If you are as fascinated by pictures of my daughters as I am you can find more here: FLICKR