And They’re Off!

I live in Louisville, Kentucky. That means that, for the past week and all this coming week, everything, and I mean everything, is all about that two minute horse race known as the Kentucky Derby. Balloon races, parties, mint juleps, steam boat races, bourbon, parades; the list goes on and on. For corporate organizations, this…

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The Dystopian Genre

Presidential elections signal many changes ahead for a country but no one really knows what those changes may lead to. This can instill many emotions amongst people. Hope and joy for the winning party and a whole range of negative emotions like fear, anger, unease in the losing party. There was confusion in 2000 when…

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Taxonomist Needed for eCommerce Giant

To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, information management, etc., we are sharing career opportunities that we find with our readers. Even if you are not in the market for a career move, it is always good to stay on top of what is available and how the fields…

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Don’t Get Tricked

This weekend we celebrated a day of pranks, jokes, and trickery. Some people go to outlandish and extravagant efforts to pull pranks on others, and some let it pass by unrecognized. But how did this quirky custom get started? Let’s go to the library of all libraries – the Library of Congress – to find some…

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Geeks by Another Name

The term geek has no gender specific connotations. Gender also has zero impact on the ways in which women interact with geek culture. However, geek culture talks to women differently because it believes that we are different. This interesting and somewhat quirky topic came to us from A90SKID in their article, “Semantics and Gender in Geek Culture.” The…

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Just Too Much

The concept of information overload has long a been a reality, even before the digital age. It was first attributed to Professor Bertram Gross over 50 years ago when he defined it as being directly proportional to a reduction in decision quality. IT ProPortal brought this news to us in their article, “Understanding natural language processing…

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The Knowledge to Know

Cognition is the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and it is usually associated with rote memory. This is usually explained simply as knowing who, what, where, and when. But factual knowledge is not the only knowledge that is beneficial to know. The Manilla Times brought this news to us in their article “The taxonomy…

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Taxonomy Analyst Position Available

To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, digital archiving, etc., we are sharing with our readers any career opportunities that we find. Even if you are not in the market for a career move, it is always good to stay on top of what is available and how the…

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