Thursday, December 30, 2010

Wednesday Search Challenge (Dec 29, 2010): First productive oil well in California?

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I grew up in LA at a time when there were oil derricks everywhere .  I had friends with rigs literally in their back yards, and when driving...
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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Rapid change, rapid responses

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Allow me to digress for a moment from our usual theme of search and sensemaking in order to make a bigger, probably more important point.   ...
Saturday, December 25, 2010

Five golden rings--5 tips for teachers and librarians

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In the spirit of the season I put together a list of 5 golden rings --5 great tips that everyone should know (but are especially useful fo...
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Thursday, December 23, 2010

Answer: Finding a quotation... even when it's not quite right

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Just so you don't think less of me, I actually knew it was an incorrect quotation, but I've heard it so often that I wanted to bri...
Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Wednesday Search Challenge (Dec 22, 2010): Finding a quotation... even when it's not quite right

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One of the biggest problems I see with people searching is when they're convinced that they already know the answer, or at least enough ...
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Friday, December 17, 2010

Answer: How to find out how to pronounce Llewellyn

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As I mentioned, this isn't an especially difficult search challenge, but that's okay because it teaches us something about what'...
Thursday, December 16, 2010

Wednesday Search Challenge (Dec 15, 2010): How to pronounce "Llewellyn"?

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Let's do a fairly simple one this week (I'll explain why tomorrow).   My daughter is a voracious reader, and often comes across pr...
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Saturday, December 11, 2010

Answer: What are those lines in the bay?

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This really WAS a hard search problem!  Congrats to Hans and Fred for figuring it out. Let's look at what Hans wrote in his comment...
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Friday, December 10, 2010

Search challenge continues!

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Well, nobody has sent in anything even approaching an answer.  (And I haven't had much luck yet in the 60 minutes I've been searchin...
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Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Wednesday Search Challenge (Dec 8, 2010): What are those lines in the bay?

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I flew into JFK yesterday in the late afternoon.  As we approached over the southern shore of Long Island, I looked out my window and saw th...
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