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One major characteristic of the social Web is that it is very evaluative. People are gathering online to engage with content in ways that have the effect of passing judgment. These judgments can be either explicit or implicit. Explicit evaluation...
If you want to keep up with the latest 2.0 news, look outside the library world. Libraries can't tell us much. We've barely put our toes in the water. Besides, whatever 2.0 initiatives we're working on have been inspired by...
A couple of weeks ago, I admitted to a long-term obsession with search engines. This time around, I'm admitting to a long-term obsession with URLs. I guess I'm just a neurotically obsessed individual. I'm into URLs for a number of...
Here's a coincidence. Over the past couple of days, I've been mulling over the role of standards in our profession and coming to the conclusion that a) existing ACRL standards are inadequate, b) toothless standards are not standards at all,...
Here's some great news that caught me by surprise. The innovative folks at The Institute for the Future of the Book have pledged to release their paragraph-level commenting system as a WordPress plugin next month. And here I'd been thinking...
I've spent the last ten years obsessing over search engines on the Web. I've taught endless numbers of classes about them, and have maintained a decade-old site (now on its own domain) that includes fairly extensive coverage of search engines...
In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, I told the story of The Psychosocial Parameters of Internet Addiction, the bogus site I created ten years ago with a colleague to teach users to evaluate information found on the...