Will someone please invent a way to search for ideas?
Short on inspiration? Harvest ideas from the web by searching Google for “someone please invent” and see what people are wishing for. Using quotes around “someone please invent” insures that Google searches for that exact phrase only.
You can further refine the query by adding related terms [...]
Many of the most popular blog posts seems to come in ordered lists. Today alone, I read: 20 Ways to Use Linkedin Effectively, Waking Up Early: 15 Tips that Work, 20 Firefox Extensions that will Save You Money, and, of course, Lifehacker’s Top 10 Roundup.
Why lists? Lists are a tool for breaking down complicated ideas [...]
Educators routinely discuss how students have trouble evaluating and using the results of their Google searches. There are really two parts to this problem, though, and while it’s true that students may struggle to identify reliable sources, before we can address that, we need to teach them how to write good queries.
It’s that old computer [...]
It’s common knowledge that academic job announcements are seasonal. In general, hiring committees are formed in the fall; they announce positions, wait a month or two for applications, then spend weeks interviewing candidates before making a decision in March or April for positions that will begin the following September. I found some data to prove [...]
There’s been a lot of interest lately in search engines designed to help you find information about people. This is a service that Google hasn’t done a great job of providing. You can always throw someone’s name in the Google search box, but if there are multiple mentions of that person online, they’ll be all [...]