links for 2008-05-01

"The adoption of faceted filtering with links is compelling. It indicates a widespread endorsement of the design. While faceted filtering with checkboxes and other form controls can provide finer results, it is accompanied by significant UI complexities".

"I don’t believe that bloggers don’t have trust. Of course bloggers have some level of trust. The people who trust them are their audience".

"I met Tito Sierra at the IA Summit in Miami, and we talked soon afterwards about his experiences with faceted search".

"This calendar lists international conferences expected to be of interest to those working in information science and related disciplines".

I'm losing 35 minutes a day in productivity through not having learnt these for my MacBook yet.

D'oh the humanity of the URL- http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b00b3zjr.shtml?src=ip_mp

"After alcohol, threat-detecting brain circuits can't tell the difference between a threatening and non-threatening stimuli". I dunno, I'm still pretty good at getting into threatening situations after a beer...oh, I see what they're getting at...

"A child caught shoplifting from a record store would be seen as a source of shame to many a family - but I don't get the impression that many would feel embarrassed to admit that jnr was indulging in a little light file-sharing upstairs in his bedroom".

"Until recently, most journalists knew little or nothing about video games, seeing them as something teenage boys did in darkened rooms between bouts of mugging and car-theft. Now for the first time, many parents are themselves experienced gamers".

"The internet has made the recycling of other people's work all too easy, but equally it has made detection almost instantaneous. Mr Michailidis might consider his piece to be an appreciation, but there is another word for it: plagiarism".

Unity for Peace and Socialism - 'This party describes itself as "an alliance between the Communist Party of Britain...the Communist Party of India, the Communist Party of Bangladesh and the Communist Party of Greece (KKE)"'. KKE in London? How odd.

Back to red tops with white 'braces' - "retro" truly is the new "retro". In fact it is just like the last time everybody had "retro" kits about 5 years ago ;-)