\u201cSmarter Bookmarks. How do you find your favorite websites? Some people, reports Lisa Guernsey in The New York Times, \u201ctry to keep track of websites by sending themselves an e-mail message with the link and a note of why it might be useful. Others,\u201d she writes,\u201d print pages or use sticky notes.<\/p>\n
Increasingly fewer people, however, bother to bookmark pages anymore. That\u2019s according to William Jones and Harry Bruce, a pair of associate professors at the University of Washington, who dismiss bookmarks as \u201c\u2018information closets\u2019 that hold a jumble of sites people never return to.\u201d That\u2019s a problem that William and Harry hope to solve, and they\u2019ve got a three-year, $378,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to do so. Their project, called \u201cKeeping Found Things Found<\/a>,\u201d involves research into \u201chow people returned to sites they had visited before.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cSmarter Bookmarks. How do you find your favorite websites? Some people, reports Lisa Guernsey in The New York Times, \u201ctry to keep track of websites by sending themselves an e-mail message with the link and a note of why it might be useful. Others,\u201d she writes,\u201d print pages or use sticky notes. Increasingly fewer people,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[1427,21,14],"class_list":["post-2247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookmarks","tag-bookmarks","tag-trends","tag-web"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}