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I don't believe anybody else in the world loves me so well, unless it possibly is papa, and he doesn't follow me down cellar, and goes off and picks strawberries all by himself, and that on Sunday, too, when I had forbidden berrypicking!
The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss Prentiss, George L 1882
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I don't believe anybody else in the world loves me so well, unless it possibly is papa, and he doesn't follow me down cellar, and goes off and picks strawberries all by himself, and that on Sunday, too, when I had forbidden berrypicking!
The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss George L. Prentiss 1859
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Thursday that a 59-year-old man from that community had not been seen since 2: 30 p.m. after going berrypicking.
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But with the Web and search, you could go from strategy to strategy in seconds, berrypicking your way through the Web.
Out of My Gord 2008
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Not just because it’s warm and nice but it’s also the season of fruits, herbs and berrypicking.
82times commented on the word berrypicking
from library/information science: used as a model to describe information seeking behavior. I think this article is where the coinage comes from.
I'm so totally amazed berrypicking has no Wikipedia article.
September 24, 2007
ecbrenner commented on the word berrypicking
"As with actual berry picking behavior, people "forage" from one information "bush" to another, plucking nuggets of information where they find them, storing them for later use, then moving on." --Sean Carton, ClickZ. He also quotes Marcia Bates's 1989 paper.
September 29, 2008
bilby commented on the word berrypicking
Ah, that's why I have sticky fingers.
October 26, 2008