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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Who said tagging has to use words?!
Possible Lesson: Give a user an inch, they’ll make it into a mile.
[spotted via del.icious/tag/folksonomies]

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I’m sure many of you are as enthralled with Digg as I am. I had heard some reports that Digg was now topping Slashdot in terms of readership (not sure if thats actually the case yet though) and I certainly had the sense that stories were very often getting “dug” before they were getting “dotted.” […]

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Dave Sifry’s latest report on tags and tagging–part of Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere series–is worth a read.
Summary:
* Growth has been tremendous in the last 6 months: Technorati has tracked over 25 Million tagged posts from January to July of 2005
* About 300,000 posts with tags […]

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Yet another shameless plug for a local conference — this one, Netspeed 2005, which follows on the heels of Access (they actually share a day this year).
The Alberta Library is pleased to announce that the 2005 Netspeed Conference will be held October 19-21, 2005 in Edmonton, Alberta, immediately following the ACCESS conference. We invite […]

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