How Internet Infrastructure Works by Jeff Tyson
- No one owns the Internet, but the non-profit Internet Society oversees its policies and procedures
- NSF created the first Internet backbone in 1987; today man companies operate their own backbones
- IP (Internet Protocol) address - each computer's unique identifying number, either "net" or 'host"
- Domain Name System (DNS) - directly maps text names (like google.com) to a website's IP address - much easier for users
- URL: Uniform Resource Locator
Andrew K. Pace (2004). Dismantling Integrated Library Systems.
Library Journal, 129(2), p.34-36.
- "Today, interoperability in library automation is more myth than reality. Some of us wonder if we may lose more than we gain in this newly dismantled world." Sounds grim!
- Starting over with a new ILS can be a nightmare - better to build on what you have
- "Better" ILSs will be considerably more expensive - libraries must be able to reconcile this cost
- "Library vendors have two choices. They can continue to maintain large systems that use proprietary methods of interoperability and promise tight integration of services for their customers. Or, they can choose to dismantle their modules in such a way that librarians can reintegrate their systems through web services and standards, combining new with the old modules as well as the new with each other."
Sergey Brin and Larry Page: Inside the Google machine
- Serget Brin and Larry Page - Google co-founders
- That graphic, showing Google's activity around the world at an given time? Awesome.
- Interesting insight about queries - could be vital, could be just for fun
- Google Foundation and Google Grants - good to know they exist
- "Cult picture" - nice to know that Google has a sense of humor about their cult status as an employer
2 comments:
It is nice to know that Google Grants exists and that it is used for many programs. Often it seems that companies have 1 charity, which is still ok, but it is nice to see the variety. Also, my favorite part of the video was the cult picture - I need to look up turnover rates for Google - before and after they went public. Every company needs to show some sort of humor when dealing with negative connotations about their company.
Valerie, I also loved the google graphic illustrations! Fascinating. I thought the choice of visual components they used in their examples made things come to life and easier to understand. Even the clip of the information traffic during one second was visually illuminating.
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