day in the life…

Thursday is coming to an end and I did not get back to my Verde pile.

However, I did:

• complete the meeting notes & get feedback from Mary about unconferencing that need to go out to a few NASIG colleagues tomorrow
• complete a review of the University Handbook and the Libraries’ tenure & promotions documents and bylaws for my faculty ad-hoc committee on tenure committees of the whole vs. part – still need to compare notes with the other member of the committee as we finalize a document needs to be sent to the faculty prior to our September meeting
• have an email exchange concerning a Wiley invoice and prepped a couple of invoices for payment
• review & respond to NASIG executive board emails and an email from the N&E chair
• scan my blog feed reader and catch up on some reading
• post a follow-up to my own post yesterday about Cuil (and spent way too much time comparing search results on Google and Cuil)
• have lunch with son no. 2 visiting from Texas this week
• discuss some personnel issues
• have an informal discussion with a colleague on student budgets, document delivery, and the Friends Gala
• write this post

I promise to work on my Verde pile tomorrow!

Cuil follow-up

Apparently there aren’t a lot of folks who think that Cuil is very cool. Michael, over at Tame the Web, highlights a review at TechCrunch which points out a number of deficiencies.

I re-did a couple of my searches today and noticed that Cuil seems to have significantly scaled back on placing images next to the search results. Guess they are listening to their critics. Will they win over the hearts and minds of the google-addicted? After this debut, it may be a long uphill battle!