I've made far more useful connections through Twitter than I have through LinkedIn, and Biz Stone and the boys don't feel the need to send me billions of pleading emails about how I have new "connections" waiting for me.
This paper presents the results of two studies that examine a possible approach to identifying more useful documents through the relationships between searchers' tasks and the document genres in the collection.
Canada's censuses provide more useful data through which to analyse such shifts than data from many other Western censuses, first in that they include detailed data on ethnicity and generational status; and second in that the Beyond 20/20 software from the Stat Canada website enables a multi-dimensional analysis of variables.
VEP thus gives more useful information, through its subcategories of splicing variants, about the likely function of a variant.
See mashups as piracy if you insist, but it is more useful, viewing them through the lens of the market, to see them as an expression of consumer dissatisfaction.
Murdo is a budding musician; Kelman himself wanted to be a painter before he was drawn to writing and, formidably well-read and intellectually agile across a number of art forms, he suggests it can be more useful to see writing through the prism of, say, music or visual arts.
Because I've found the secular beliefs and values I've grown up with in school to be more useful than those learned through Catholicism, I've discarded my religion.
The more uses we find, the more useful it becomes.
I'd submit that they are more useful than yet another quick walk-through of the high points of Hitler's life.
So if his students were listening to the account of an Auschwitz survivor, they'd say, "This is all very well, love, but it would be more useful if you could run through a list of copper alloys as there's a chemistry test coming up on Tuesday".
