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Wow, LoC.

Posted in Controlled Vocabularies, Flickr, Library 2.0, Library of Congress, Tagging, collaboration, education, information, internet, participation, read-write, technology, web 2.0, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I’m not completely sure how to start this post. First, I guess with thanks to John Fudrow, else it would have been even longer before I found out about this development (how did I miss this?). My original title for this post was LOC + Flickr = Interesting, but then I saw that the LibrarianInBlack [...]

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when it comes to encyclopedias, does Google knol best?

Posted in Encyclopedia, Google, Wikipedia, collaboration, education, higher education, information, internet, knol, read-write, technology, www, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

knol
main entry: knol
pronunciation: \ˈnōl\
function: noun
etymology: 12/13/2007 Udi Manber in Encouraging People to Contribute Knowledge, “Earlier this week, we started inviting a selected group of people to try a new, free tool that we are calling ‘knol’…”
definition: A unit of knowledge.
By the end of 2008, the above definition might seem silly. Should [...]

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Is Library 2.0 as Overhyped as a

Posted in Library 2.0, collaboration, education, higher education, participation, tagged , , , , , , , , on November 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Questions:

Does anyone care about Library 2.0 aside from librarians? (We librarians know they should…but do they?)
Why do successful uses of Library 2.0 applications/technologies seem more difficult to find than Web 2.0 applications/technologies?
What good is participatory service if nobody is participating…or, if only a few people are participating?
How much do comments, tagging, and user reviews help, [...]

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my first post

Posted in Library 2.0, collaboration, education, higher education, media, participation, technology, tagged , , , , , , on October 25, 2007 | 2 Comments »

I might as well start this blog off in an “incorrect” fashion. Instead of focusing on a humanities-related subject, I’ll cross the divide and begin with a post that delves into the world inhabited by those kooky social/behavioralists…
YouTube me:

Your thoughts? (please do send them, either via comments or as an [...]

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