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Seth Maislin's Indexing Blog: September 2006
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Seth Maislin's Indexing Blog. A public exploration of indexing and information storage, retrieval, naming, and categorization. A spontaneous collection of ideas about ideas. Yet another website by Seth Maislin (like http:/ taxonomist.tripod.com). Indexers work to make things findable, but there's another side to this coin. Indexers also work to make things un. There's a sign in a general store in Lake George, New York. Let's turn the indexing process around. As indexers, what do we want to make lost?
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Seth Maislin's Indexing Blog: July 2006
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Seth Maislin's Indexing Blog. A public exploration of indexing and information storage, retrieval, naming, and categorization. A spontaneous collection of ideas about ideas. Yet another website by Seth Maislin (like http:/ taxonomist.tripod.com). Many indexers in the business are frustrated that search engines are getting so much publicity and credit, when in fact indexes are, well, more effective! And then he injures himself. Silly, silly person. Some indexers take this news with a strong sense of pessi...
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Seth Maislin's Indexing Blog: January 2007
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Seth Maislin's Indexing Blog. A public exploration of indexing and information storage, retrieval, naming, and categorization. A spontaneous collection of ideas about ideas. Yet another website by Seth Maislin (like http:/ taxonomist.tripod.com). Foreword to Heather Hedden's upcoming book. I was asked to write the foreword to Heather Hedden's upcoming. Indexing Specialties: Web Sites,. Or a list of ITI's indexing publications. Indexing Specialties: Web Sites. I am excited and pleased to see Heather compi...
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Seth Maislin's Indexing Blog: April 2006
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Seth Maislin's Indexing Blog. A public exploration of indexing and information storage, retrieval, naming, and categorization. A spontaneous collection of ideas about ideas. Yet another website by Seth Maislin (like http:/ taxonomist.tripod.com). Whatever happened to "indices"? Among others) asked me, "Is the word. I didn't know those words were contesting, but yes. If a U.S. winner were to be declared today, I'd have to go with. Although strictly speaking the correct term is. To me, this logic is what's...
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Seth Maislin's Indexing Blog: March 2007
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Seth Maislin's Indexing Blog. A public exploration of indexing and information storage, retrieval, naming, and categorization. A spontaneous collection of ideas about ideas. Yet another website by Seth Maislin (like http:/ taxonomist.tripod.com). Indexers indexing infinitely . like monkeys. Three ideas have merged. First, there's the idea I published last December as "A needle in a haystack with 100,000,000 blades,". The New York Times. Article "Artificial Intelligence, With Help From the Humans,". Putti...
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Seth Maislin's Indexing Blog: May 2007
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Seth Maislin's Indexing Blog. A public exploration of indexing and information storage, retrieval, naming, and categorization. A spontaneous collection of ideas about ideas. Yet another website by Seth Maislin (like http:/ taxonomist.tripod.com). I gave a presentation last year (at the Toronto conference of the American Society of Indexers. About money. I synthesized some statistics to come up with something I hadn't seen expressed before. Median per-page rate: $3.26 to $3.50. 45 entries per hour. Finall...
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Seth Maislin's Indexing Blog: February 2007
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Seth Maislin's Indexing Blog. A public exploration of indexing and information storage, retrieval, naming, and categorization. A spontaneous collection of ideas about ideas. Yet another website by Seth Maislin (like http:/ taxonomist.tripod.com). Indexes are the speed limit on the information highway. The growing demand for indexes that point to online, changing, and custom content is forcing a huge gap into the indexing industry, and that gap is physical. Ah, how I miss the days when 114 meant 114.
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Seth Maislin's Indexing Blog: June 2006
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Seth Maislin's Indexing Blog. A public exploration of indexing and information storage, retrieval, naming, and categorization. A spontaneous collection of ideas about ideas. Yet another website by Seth Maislin (like http:/ taxonomist.tripod.com). With respect to our loved ones. There are many who believe that books - and by this I refer to the traditional object of bound paper and print. Are sacred objects. Anne Fadiman. Listen, friends, for this is the romantic side to indexing. View my complete profile.
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Seth Maislin's Indexing Blog: External deadline forces
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Seth Maislin's Indexing Blog. A public exploration of indexing and information storage, retrieval, naming, and categorization. A spontaneous collection of ideas about ideas. Yet another website by Seth Maislin (like http:/ taxonomist.tripod.com). I need this book in hand by Friday because.". College textbooks need to be on the shelves in time for traditional semester beginnings, in September and January. Books that are budgeted for one year are pushed to get finished during that budget (fiscal) year, to ...
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Seth Maislin's Indexing Blog: Indexing has at least one fan
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Seth Maislin's Indexing Blog. A public exploration of indexing and information storage, retrieval, naming, and categorization. A spontaneous collection of ideas about ideas. Yet another website by Seth Maislin (like http:/ taxonomist.tripod.com). Indexing has at least one fan. It seems my blog got noticed. Just the other day, which is pretty neat. It seems I have at least one fan . other than myself, of course. Why does the field of indexing have so few fans outside of the profession itself? We are respo...