Posted in Language, Personal, Reading, Solutions, tagged introverts on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’ve long known I’m an introvert. Over the years I’ve developed a way of coping that I’m mostly satisfied with, but wish to improve.
It hasn’t occurred to me, however, to go looking for literature on how other introverts deal with the extroverted world. Not until this spring, that is, when I stumbled on Marcy Phelps’s [...]
Posted in Blogging, Images, Language, Reference on Saturday, February 2, 2008 | No Comments »
BlewSpace offers a nice, visual way to locate bloggers.
Via LibrarianInBlack.
The Europa Polyglotta map, published in mid-1700s, tries a completely different kind and even more fascinating mapping (for us linguists, at any rate):
“to show the concordances and differences between all the languages spoken in Europe by spelling out the beginning of the Lord’s Prayer [...]
Posted in Clever, Humor, Language, tagged haikus on Wednesday, December 5, 2007 | No Comments »
At a recent RLG event about managing print collections in a digital era, the participants made unexpected constributions:
“In the coming weeks we’ll be sharing outcomes and lessons learned. I’ll start that process today by sharing the context-setting documents we developed for the program. They happen to be in the shape of haiku, the Japanese poetic form consisting [...]
Posted in Blogging, Language, Usability on Thursday, November 15, 2007 | No Comments »
Apparently the reading level of this blog is high-school:
I wonder how they determine it, though. Vocabulary?
Via Stephen’s Lighthouse. Like he notes, matching your language to your target audience is good. I’m just not convinced this is the tool for it.
Posted in Clever, Language, Solutions, Word soup, tagged dictionaries on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 | No Comments »
Carolyn J. Sosnowski’s tips, Info Sites, in Information Outlook are always helpful. A recent find through her is OneLook Reverse Dictionary. Fab!
Posted in Language, Searching, Usability on Wednesday, August 1, 2007 | No Comments »
It seems that natural language searching is within our reach, if we can believe the recent report in Technology Review:
“The engine does more than merely accept queries asked in the form of a question. The company claims that the engine finds the best answer by considering the meaning and context of the question and related [...]
