Family Man Librarian

Something that I’ve noticed for quite a while, and given some thought to, is that blog comments seem to be the most marginalized element of the blogosphere. This, in spite of the fact that in many cases, a comment may be even more useful or valuable than the original posting on which it is [...]

It was interesting to read this report from CNET on a meeting to discuss how to improve tagging. Underlying the meeting was a common understanding that tagging as it currently stands is not as useful as it could or should be. The main reason for this lack of usefulness, according to the participants, [...]

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 been using Google Analytics since mid-November 2005 to gain some knowledge about who visits this blog, how much traffic it generates, and from where. It’s not a perfect tool but hey, it’s free and it’s easy to use. I’ve read that others question the results given to them by Google Analytics and [...]

Some time ago I noted here that an acquaintence of mine had snagged an interesting job at ALA as RDA Project Manager. Yesterday I sat down and read more about RDA, which stands for Resource Description and Access. In particular I read through the RDA Prospectus, published by an international group called the [...]

I recommend reading the summary of the year’s activity in tags as written by Gene Smith at You’re It. Very interesting. It helps to set things in perspective for me. Probably the most compelling piece in this post is a quote from Tim Bray (I wish I had the source of it but [...]

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, [...]

At the risk of sounding rather negative, even petty (or worse), I’ve noticed an awful lot of the inner circle syndrome in library blogland lately. It seems to be getting more and more obvious, but perhaps not to those who might be deemed part of that inner circle. Some time ago I commented [...]

I was excited to get an invitation late last week to download a preview (developer’s) release of the Flock web browser. (If you want an invitation so as to be able to download it, drop me an email at s t o b e r g [ a t ] o b e r g [...]

Tagyu :: Your tags, smarter
Getting back once again to the topic of tags and tagging, about which my own personal jury is still out, I thought it worthwhile to mention a new web service called Tagyu that offers an automated method for picking out relevant tags for the content that you want to tag.? I’ve [...]