Archive for April, 2005

Tiger, tiger, burning bright

Friday, April 29th, 2005

Many reviews of the new Mac OS, including this extended piece by John
Siracusa that really gets into the guts of it…(Source; Daypop)   For those who want just an overview, see David Pogue’s NYT overview. Also Hiawatha Bray speculates on the potential for PC-to-Mac converts.

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Great scientific invention

Wednesday, April 27th, 2005

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O’Reilly has a new group blog

Monday, April 25th, 2005

O’Reilly Radar tracks technology trends “the next Mosaic, P2P, or Amazon.” (Source: Daypop)

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On the anniversary of Moore’s Law …

Tuesday, April 19th, 2005

and how Moore may have gotten the idea from Douglas Engelbart…. (Source: Science in the News)

Update (4/21/05): Lii.org points to an Intel compilation about Moore, including a link to his original “Moore’s Law” paper. 

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Interview with Howard Berg

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

Current Biology interviews Rowland’s Howard Berg on physics and biology and his work with the bacterial flagellar motor.  (Harvard link)

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Paper on weblogs in sci-tech libraries

Tuesday, April 12th, 2005

Randy Reichardt and Geoffrey Harder announced the publication of their
“Weblogs: their use and applications in science and technology
libraries.”  It’s a throughly informative and well-researched
article covering definition and history of weblogs, weblog software,
literature on weblogs, and applications for weblogs in sci-tech
libraries such as project management, reference desk blogging, student
mentoring and current awareness, the latter of which cites the Rowland
library blog. 

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