Finding hotel rooms is easier and cheaper these days, as many road warriors have probably already noticed. Occupancy at U.S. hotels fell to 56.3% during the week of Nov. 9-15, compared to 63.7% in the same week of 2007, according to Smith Travel Research, which tracks hotel performance. The average daily rate dropped 1.7% to $106.26, and revenue per available room, which is the hotel industry’s key measure of performance, fell 13.2% to $59.78. “It ...

Duncan Hull alerted me to his paper "Defrosting the Digital Library: Bibliographic Tools for the Next Generation Web" (PloS Computational Biology, doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000204). Here's the abstract:Many scientists now manage the bulk of their bibliographic information electronically, thereby organizing their publications and citation material from digital libraries. However, a library has been described as “thought in cold storage,” and unfortunately many digital libraries can be cold, impersonal, isolated, and inaccessible places. In this Review, we discuss the ...

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新浪科技讯 11月3日上午消息，据内部人士透露，视频网站六间房(6.CN)近日启动大规模裁员计划，公司团队规模可能将缩减至10人。而在鼎盛时期，该公司员工多达120人。 据悉，由于金融风暴的影响，该公司目前面临经济困难。不久前，六间房曾有过一次裁员计划，团队规模从120....

So far, I’ve liked everything I’ve seen and read by Nicholas Carr (author of “The Big Switch: rewiring the world from Edison to Google”). I was interested and challenged by his recent article in The Atlantic “Is Google Making us Stupid“. His basic thesis is that the information overload that results from the availability of huge amounts of data from search engines is making us unable to read closely and think deeply. As part of ...