Posted in Uncategorized on January 22nd, 2012 Comments Off on [2b2k][eim] Needlebase going? Nooo! We need le base!
Google has announced that it is retiring Needlebase, a service it acquired with its ITA purchase. That’s too bad! Needlebase is a very cool tool. (It’s staying up until June 1 so you can download any work you’ve done there.)
Needlebase is a browser-based tool that creates a merged, cleaned, de-duped database from databases. Then you can create a variety of user-happy outputs. There are some examples here.
Google says it’s evaluating whether Needlebase can be threaded into its other offerings.
Posted in Uncategorized on January 1st, 2012 2 Comments »
Here’s my top ten list of top ten lists of top ten lists:
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The Top Ten Top Ten Lists of All Time
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TopTenz Miscellaneous
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MetaCritic music lists
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Smosh’s Top Ten Top Ten Lists of 2011
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Top Ten 2011 Top Ten Lists about CleanTech
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Top Ten of top ten horror movie lists
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NYT Top Ten Top Ten Lists for 2011
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Top Ten Top Ten Lists about Agile Management
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Top Ten Top Ten Video Lists of 2011
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Brand Media Strategies Top Ten Top Ten Lists
Come on, people! If just nine more of you compile top ten top ten top tens we can take it up a level!
Bonus: The media can’t get enough of top ten lists. When they run out, they write about why they write about top ten lists:
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The New Yorker
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Forbes
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NPR
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NY Times
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Discover
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CBS
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Poynter
[Later that day:] I’ve removed one from the list so that there are actually ten, not eleven. Oops. (And again, later, because I am a @#$%ing moron.)
