Marc Meola from ACRLog writes about the Wall St. Journal article on LibraryThing. What stood out to me in his post was the phrase “Maybe I’m just being grumpy…” I am glad he wrote that, admitting that sometimes we who blog can sometimes just be in a particularly negative frame of mind. [...]

I’m not sure where to even begin with this blog post…By that I mean that so much is happening and there is so much that I’ve wanted to comment on here but haven’t done so, such that my brain is scrambled (well, more so than usual).
For example, I continue to be incredibly impressed with Tim [...]

I’m thoroughly enjoying conversations with my mentee @ the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Graduate School of Library and Information Science. He is very familiar with Web 2.0 and so naturally we have already begun a dialog about the viability of the library side of this technology trend, known as Library 2.0. I [...]

I’ve mentioned LibraryThing several times already, but I have to write about it again, this time, because of its groundbreaking and chaotic foray into cataloging nirvana, er, FRBR. Basically Tim Spalding has set LibraryThingers (LibraryThingamabobbers?) loose on figuring out what a “work” is and combining multiple versions of a work together into a “work” [...]

I’ve mentioned before how much I like LibraryThing, one of the best Web 2.0 type services anywhere. Yesterday I decided to use it to begin tracking the books I’ve read recently. I started using the tag ‘read’ and then used the handy blog widget LibraryThing provides to create a feed of those books [...]

I was happy to see an announcement today from Tim Spalding, creator/maintainer of LibraryThing, about the availability of RSS/HTML feeds. Tim’s work in developing a library community centered around a shared online catalog of user’s books is one of the standout ideas/creations of the past year. He is very responsive to user input [...]

I don’t think I’ve mentioned this before, but I have been experimenting for a while now with tagging my posts using Technorati tags. I’ve settled on using Flock as my preferred blogging platform, at least in part because of the ease with which I can associate tags and categories with each post. (By the way, [...]

I saw a link to an interview with Tim Spalding, creator of LibraryThing, via Library Stuff. The interview itself is available at Emily Chang’s eHub. LibraryThing continues to be one of my all time favorite sites, even though I haven’t had time lately to devote to it. Upon first look, I quickly [...]

I’ve been using LibraryThing off and on for the last week and added a small portion of the books in my personal library to it. Steven Cohen at Library Stuff quotes another LibraryThing user as saying that the social aspect of LibraryThing is what makes it so addictive. I agree. It is [...]

The other day I was listening to a podcast (NPR: Technology) on the way home. The topic was tagging, which is a hot topic right now in the blogosphere (see ‘Tagging’ Lets Ordinary Users Organize the Internet.’) Some time ago I wrote about tagging with the basic reaction of “Duh, this is the [...]