The Invisible Web Weblog

Recently I was thinking how I can bring my old Weblog back to the web. Of course, it will never be the same because what I have written in 2003 might be a bit out-of-date today. However, these old entries are the history of my blogging experience I would like to keep them somehow. As I said in the first entry in the new Weblog I have been developing my Weblog about the invisible web since August 2003 and in June 2005 it disappeared from the web because of a technical problem. Anyway, I suppose the easiest way is to gradually upload the old entries here. Although I do not have the back up of all the entries, I have some of them. So, this is the first one. ------------------------- Welcome to the Invisible Web Weblog ( Published in 21 August 2003) This is my first piece of writing for this Weblog. Naturally, at the first entry I should say who I am and what I decide to publish here. O.K, first of all please let me to introduce myself. I am a PhD research student in the department of Info...

CILIP is going to hold a workshop about the invisible web called Going beyond Google in 25 October 2005 in London. For more details please follow this link .

Yesterday I attended a very useful workshop at the University of Manchester. The Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change ( CRESC ) held the workshop called " Re-using Qualitative Data ".

I attended a very interesting workshop today at the university from 9:00 in the morning to 4:00 in the afternoon. It was a workshop called “Away Day” for PhD students in our department. It was a good opportunity to learn new things and see new research students.

These days I am terribly busy with the final stages of my data collection …

I made some changes in my homepage recently and added a few new items on it. This is my homepage, Yazdan Mansourian Homepage .

The fourth issue of Webology just came out and the journal became one year old. As one of the editorial members of the journal I am personally happy because of its rapid progress over the last year. In this issue I have published the transcription of an interview with one of the senior researchers in the area of web search research. Mansourian, Y. (2005). " The Past, Present and Future of Web Search Research: An Interview with Dr. Amanda Spink ". Webology, 2 (2), Article 15. Available at: http://www.webology.ir/2005/v2n2/a15.html