When I present Web 2.0 workshops to those who know little, they are always taken back by the names of things, e.g., blog, wiki, blogosphere, biblioblogosphere. We joke about it and move on. However, YouGov polled over 2,000 adults to determine the most irritating Internet words. The list includes:
Folksonomy
Blogosphere
Blog
Netiquette
Blook
“Blook” was new to me — a [...]
A promotional video for the Portal to Texas History, hosted at the University of North Texas, is available at YouTube.
It’s just a couple of minutes long and shows the diversity of materials they’ve collected. Great work!
The Gilbert Library of the Maricopa County Library District in Arizona will be opening in June. In addition to adding another branch for a growing community, this one will not use either the Dewey Decimal or Library of Congress classification systems. The entire collection will be shelved by topic, according to the Arizona Republic newspaper.
This [...]
David Weinberger, author of the Cluetrain Manifesto, gave a talk entitled “Everything is Miscellaneous” for a group of Google developers. In a very entertaining fashion, he discusses how we, the general public, categorize physical objects, and then moves into how libraries categorize, e.g., the book can only reside in one location.
He then discusses how [...]
It looks like Microsoft is offering you a 30-day evaluation of Vista on a pre-configured virtual hard drive. The download size is between 159mb and 1559mb, depending on the components downloaded.
For organizations with complex desktop infrastructures, whether large or small, Windows Vista Enterprise is the operating system designed specifically to help realize a better [...]
GAIM, the open source instant messaging aggregator, is now known as Pidgin. The second version of Pidgin is now out. Pidgin includes connections to many more IM programs than other aggregators I’ve seen:
AIM
Gadu-Gadu
GroupWise
ICQ
IRC
MSN
QQ
SIMPLE
XMPP
Yahoo
Zephyr
The name change from GAIM to Pidgin was necessitated by legal threats from AOL. The new name, Pidgin, is a corrupted [...]
