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Site Updates

Tuesday, March 6, 2007

To cope with some serious anxiety while waiting for my spouse to come back from an interview and waiting to find out whether we’re getting the apartment we want, I added some stuff to this site. There’s a del.icio.us feed in the blog sidebar, and on my main page I’ve added my promised pre-print [...]

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I Still Heart LibraryThing

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

From this Thingology post:
Some day, if we have enough shared users [with Cork'd], LibraryThing can recommend books based on the wines you drink!
Awesome!

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How Do Tag Clouds Work?

Wednesday, February 7, 2007

Library Journal interviewed Tim Spalding, creator of LibraryThing, for the January 15th edition. The interview includes Tim’s explanation of how tag clouds work. Tim talks about the relative size and bold-ness of the tags and how the software figures out what to display in very non-technical terms. It’s really interesting. [...]

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Signing up, Signing in, and Searching

Tuesday, January 9, 2007

I finally started cataloging my books on LibraryThing over the holiday break. Two things struck me immediately.
1. Library Thing is better than any other website I have ever used. Why?

The sign-up process is identical to the sign-in process! What a concept! Reason enough to upgrade to a paid account and support [...]

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LibraryThing UnSuggester

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

I’m fascinated by LibraryThing’s new UnSuggester, unveiled Sunday along with their “real” recommender system. UnSuggester gives you opposites instead of similar titles.
For example, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky overlaps least with Daughters of the Moon by Lynne Ewing. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins overlaps least with Wild at Heart: Discovering the Passionate [...]

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