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Where to put the emphasis?

“The other problem is that for all of the Post’s progress it still seems to regard itself largely as a newspaper that happens to publish its articles on the web, rather than a general media company that happens to publish a paper edition. Sometimes a traditional newspaper article is the best way [...]

Why is visualizing so important?

Palestrant rattled off his ideas…The pair made sense of Palestrant’s fuzzy ideas…Diagrams in hand, Palestrant went to venture-capital funds and returned with $40 million in start-up money. Firms like Humantific, whose founders are designers, apply the same process used in designing sleek MP3 players and ergonomic teakettles to unwieldy intangibles like cell-phone [...]

Can you find your way?

What about your library? Is your map, useful? How do you know?

Contributor: Lee

Is research changing? getting more green?

89 References, -21 book or other materials, — 68 electronic-based references.

Let’s run down the links:

–> http://www.dothegreenthing.com/ –> http://www.greenmanifesto.org/ –> http://www.greenlibraries.org/ –> http://greeningyourlibrary.wordpress.com/ –> http:/Green_library –> http://www.librisdesign.org/docs/ –> even the Bronx is getting in on this: http://www.nypl.org/press/2007/greencouncil.cfm

Contributor: Lee.

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What’s coming up?

Contributor: Lee.

Help your Scholars?

ScholarsArchive@OSU is Oregon State University’s digital service for gathering, indexing, making available and storing the scholarly work of the Oregon State University community.

Its primary goal is to provide freely-available and long-term access to the historic and contemporary intellectual work that makes Oregon State University faculty and students leaders in research, [...]

What is the message?

Contributor: Lee

What was the library?

The nanoHUB takes advantage of several Web 2.0 technologies: Like YouTube and Digg, nanoHUB consists of user-supplied content.

On the site, users find software, podcasts, PowerPoint lectures and even Flash-based video tutorials.

Contributor: Lee.

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What is the future?

Contributor: Lee

New: Research You Must Read

I’m introducing a new line of posts at TTW: Research You Must Read. We’ll start with research directly applicable to the work day. This article contains information most of us, if not all, can relate to.

The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an [...]