December 2008
10 posts
I signed up for my Hotmail account in 1998, back when the free Web-based mail service was relatively new. The service had just been purchased by Microsoft when I signed up for it, and Microsoft hadn’t yet rebranded Hotmail to make it into MSN Anything or MSN Live Anything-else. It was just Hotmail. It had about a million users and I basically had my pick of usernames — I even had a four-character...
Digital Ethnography →
The digital ethnography blog at Kansas State University, home of Michael Wesch who did the great “The Machine is Us/ing Us” YouTube video that I used in my thesis defense.
New blog post: Philosophy and folksonomy http://tinyurl.com/5pu56x
Reading article on folksonomies in DLib and Weinberger’s response to it—here: http://snurl.com/6zur9 and here http://snurl.com/6zurs
Parents may worry about teenagers’ addictions to social networking tools, but a new study says those hours spent on th http://bit.ly/PX0Q
Weinberger takes issue with some of the philosophy in Elaine Peterson’s D-Lib article, arguing that traditional catalo http://bit.ly/sDd
Philosophical problems with folksonomies →
Weinberger takes issue with some of the philosophy in Elaine Peterson’s D-Lib article, arguing that traditional cataloging systems do not necessarily present “better” search results.
Beneath the Metadata: Some Philosophical Problems... →
Elaine Peterson takes a philosophical look at folksonomies and finds their fluidity less effective than traditional cataloging systems.
A post on David Weinberger’s blog turned me on to an article by Elaine Peterson called “Beneath the Metadata” that was published in the November 2006 D-Lib magazine.
I took note for two reasons. First, Peterson works on my campus at the Renne Library. This means that, even though the article is two years old, I might be able to pull a news service story about the subject out of her. Yay for...
Micky Rourke’s fascinating New York Times Magazine interview — http://is.gd/9FA9