Category Archives: Search

MagNet Presentation on Research Using the Web

Posted on May 1, 2010 by joanvinallcox
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The Web is About Connections

Posted on August 3, 2009 by joanvinallcox

Holiday Monday and I’m playing on the web. I’m scanning through my MakeUseOf.com subscription and decide to look at this – http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/technology-explained-how-the-internet-works/ I read this: Look at a map of the Internet sometime and you’ll see that it is like a million superhighways with no lines painted on the road. It’s a snake pit of View Post

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Social Bookmarking – Diigo

Posted on June 18, 2009 by joanvinallcox

Social bookmarking is one of the most useful aspects of the web. You can use it to create your own online library, organized to your own interests by using tags. Although I’ve been using some form of social bookmarking for years, every so often I want to review what I can do with the social View Post

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MagNet '09

Posted on June 4, 2009 by joanvinallcox

I GO-trained into Toronto today to attend some sessions  at the MagNet ’09 Conference. I was really impressed with the excellent level of organization and with the high quality of the two sessions I attended, a session with a panel of literary agents answering questions and a session with Harry van Bommel on self-publishing. Both View Post

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Google Searching Tricks

Posted on February 1, 2008 by joanvinallcox

Every so often I see a blog post that I want to not just save in my del.icio.us account – http://del.icio.us/shiftingsemiosis – but I want to actively learn how to use. LifeHacker‘s Top 10 Obscure Google Search Tricks is one of those. The list starts at 10, and, although I’d re-order a couple of the View Post

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