bluereek limited » Reading http://www.bluereek.com Business and IT Consulting Mon, 01 Aug 2011 16:23:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 twitter v. google for (re)search http://www.bluereek.com/2009/05/twitter-v-google-for-research/ http://www.bluereek.com/2009/05/twitter-v-google-for-research/#comments Wed, 20 May 2009 22:12:59 +0000 Barry O'Gorman http://www.bluereek.com/?p=266 Where would we be without google (search)?  It has opened up a world of information for all of us.   But what now as twitter gets a real foothold.  It feels a little like the difference between listening to an hourly nes bulletin and reading a daily newspaper.  Perhaps with Google I can find the more comprehensive and more considered answer.  But with twitter I feel like I ma getting the current answer – like a news alert.

Interesting times.  Particularly becasue the nature of search/ research is changing – as web 3.0/ semantic web emerges.  Google, as expected, has been quick to look to leverage more effective ways of searching/ indexing data.  But these techniques are also availabel to twitter.

]]> http://www.bluereek.com/2009/05/twitter-v-google-for-research/feed/ 0 Reading the news online http://www.bluereek.com/2009/03/reading-the-news-online/ http://www.bluereek.com/2009/03/reading-the-news-online/#comments Sun, 08 Mar 2009 12:58:50 +0000 Barry O'Gorman http://www.bluereek.com/?p=112 Over the last few weeks I have restricted myself to reading the news online (as against print copy).  On a Sunday I typically scan the following online: Sunday Independent, Sunday Times (Ireland edition), Sunday Tribune and Sunday Business Post (not available until later).  Many attractions include: free, no pile of paper to get rid of, easy to index anything of interest (using www.faviki.com), easy to search for what’s of interest.  So what are the disadvantages? – reading on my computer screen is a strain, reading at a laptop in the lounge area seems less sociable that actually flicking through newspapers where you can handon the paper to someone else in the room.  There is also a perception (for others and for myself) that because I work in the information systems sector when I am using a computer (even to read the news) I am working.

To some extent reading the news online faciliates greater social newtorking (tagging, indexing, etc) but impacts negatively on the immediate social network – the people with whom you live.

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