I’m delighted to report that Michael Tiemann will give the Fred Kilgour Lecture for the School of Information and Library Science on February 20th. Watch this space and the SILS web pages for more news.
Archive for January 19th, 2007They’re already in Chapel Hill, but now it looks like Google will also be in the NC mountains near Lenoir (where they can really use the jobs). NC is paying tho with some serious incentives. AP reports here. (thanks Fred). Rick Smith of WRAL has the most details I’ve seen here. I may be part of a News and Observer story on the Google-NC site if Jonathan Cox takes anything from our conversation. I hope he uses the part where I say something like: “What Walmart, FedEx, Food Town and the like do with atoms, Google will be doing with electrons. That’s using spokes and hubs to localize service, avoid highway jams, anticipate needs and supply redundancy for their systems.” Update: Here’s what Jonathan said I said in his article (News and Observer Business section) — and he was taking notes so he’s probably got it right “The reason that Food Lion, Wal-Mart, Federal Express, all those places, work is they have an incredible delivery system based on hubs delivering atoms,” said Paul Jones, an associate professor at UNC-Chapel Hill and director of Ibiblio.org, a digital library. “This is the same kind of thing, just delivering electrons.”
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Bora and Science Bloggers Conference on NPRPosted by Paul in General, scienceblogingconference
Serena alerts us to Bora’s appearance on NPR’s Market Place this morning talking about tomorrow’s Science Bloggers Conference.
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