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Corey Reece » Blog Archive » Walled gardens no more. (A unified social network and the makings of a plan)

I met Corey at BarCamp and we got to discuss this idea. I look forward to seeing where he takes it next.

(tags: microformats openid socialnetworking xfn social_networks socialnetworks)

RDU Start Up Weekend

There was a brief preliminary meeting at BarCampRDU.

(tags: startup startups barcamprdu barcamp unconference barcamprdu2007)

Pew Internet: Tagging

An older report. Just saving it for later: “A December 2006 survey has found that 28% of internet users have tagged or categorized content online such as photos, news stories or blog posts.”

(tags: tagging statistics pewstudy Folksonomies folksonomy)

Thingology (LibraryThing’s ideas blog): Tagmash: Book tagging grows up

This is a major move forward in tagging: “In getting past words or short phrases, tagmash closes some of the gap between tagging and professional subject classifications.”

(tags: cataloging folksonomy library2.0 tagging Folksonomies librarything)

Tagmashes from LibraryThing. Many-to-Many:

Weinberger’s take: “With tagmashes, the info that this tag is related to that one is gleaned from the fact that a human said that they were related.”

(tags: Folksonomies folksonomy librarything metadata cataloging tagging)

Lulu Partners with ImageLooop for Slideshow Widget Offering

(tags: lulu widgets)

Tame The Web: Libraries and Technology: Abstract: Modeling the role of blogging in librarianship

The abstract for Michael’s dissertation. I really look forward to reading it.

(tags: michaelstephens blogging library2.0 librarianship librarians dissertation)