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Love the idea, but the form is now throwing a 404 error on submission. Any chance it can be fixed? Peter On Oct 6, 2011, at 9:35 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: > So I was in #code4lib, and skome asked about ideas for library hours. > And I recalled that there have been at least two articles in the C4L > Journal on this topic, so suggested them. > > Then I realized that there's enough body of work in the Journal to be > worth searching there whenever you have an "ideas for dealing with X" > question. You might not find anything, but I think there's enough chance > you will, illustrated by that encounter with skome. > > Then I realized it's not just the journal -- what about a Google Custom > Search that searches over the Journal, the Code4Lib wiki, the Code4Lib > website, and perhaps most interestinly -- all the sites listed in Planet > Code4Lib. > > Then I made it happen. Cause it seemed interesting and I'm a > perfectionist, I even set things up so a cronjob automatically syncs the > list of sites in the Planet with the Google custom search every night. > > The Planet stuff ends up potentially being a lot of noise -- I tried to > custom 'boost' stuff from the Journal, but I'm not sure it worked. But I > did configure things with facet-like limits including a "just the > planet" limit, if you do want that. But even though it's sometimes a lot > of noise, it's also potentially the most interesting/useful part of the > search, otherwise it'd pretty much just be a Journal search, but now it > includes a bunch of people's blogs, as well as other sites deemed of > interest to Code4Lib community (including a couple other open source > library tech journals) -- without any extra curatorial work, just using > the list already compiled for the Planet. > > I'm curious what people think of it. Try some searches for library tech > questions or information and see how good your results are. If people > find this useful, I'll try to include it on the main code4lib.org > webpage in some prominent place, spruce up the look and feel etc. (Or > try to draft someone else to do that, I think my time to work on this > might be _just_ about up after staying until 9.30 hacking on this cause > it seemed cool). > > http://www.code4lib.org/custom_search/search_form.html -- Peter Murray [log in to unmask] tel:+1-678-235-2955 Ass't Director, Technology Services Development http://dltj.org/about/ LYRASIS -- Great Libraries. Strong Communities. Innovative Answers. The Disruptive Library Technology Jester http://dltj.org/ Attrib-Noncomm-Share http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/