I got an email a few days ago from AbeBooks announcing the following new service, BookHint!:
Powered by LibraryThing, AbeBooks presents BookHints: the most insightful book recommendation system to date. BookHints are brought to you from an entire community of book lovers, so keep an eye out for them - we aim to help you […]

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Was there life before del.icio.us? If so, it seems so long ago. Please come back soon.

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For an example, see Flickr and this posting. Agreed. This is just the tip of the iceberg.

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Rumsfeld’s resignation broke an internal record for the time it takes a story to go from being submitted to landing on the home page. It took about 3 minutes for users to digg the story enough for it to make it to the front door. Google News had it 20 minutes later. Lesson: “People can […]

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I had a great time this morning doing a talk for the “Tech Tuesdays: Talking with Techies” webcast series, hosted by the wonderful Education Institute and the equally wonderful Darlene Fichter. It was great to see a strong turnout for the topic and a lot of interest in what metadata for non-librarians was all about. […]

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I’m finishing up some slides for another Education Institute webcast I’ll be giving on Tuesday, Why the Masses Love Metadata: Folksonomies, Tagging and the Amateur Expert (i’ll post the slides later this week). I was poking around Connotea to see what had changed recently and stumbled through into their Lauchpad , self billed as the […]

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:: A whirlwind September follows a relaxing summer blogging hiatus. It was nice to lay off blogging for a bit in favor of other things that were competing for my time. I’m likely to continue to be a sporadic blogger, posting occasionally and dumping links here regularly, but that’s OK with me. You get what […]

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I’m in the process of cleaning up *everything* today — from half-finished projects to various tasks too long the victim of my procrastination. Yes, even my overflowing inbox of messages, all awaiting some kind of action by me, was addressed in some way (hitting the “delete” key became the fate of many). As part […]

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I started writing the following post about three weeks ago but it was never completed. Life has been a bit of a whirlwind lately with conferences and other work projects dominating most of my time. Like many fellow bloggers, I think there is something too that comes with the transition from winter to spring that […]

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