week 5 thing 10 tags and the long tail

I like the idea of foksonomies and tags. I'm sure there are lots of new subjects that don't quite fit in with old taxonomies, and new ways of seeing the world that don't conform to the old hegemonies. Writers like Chris Anderson put this very well in his 2006 book "The Long Tail" where he describes online business phenomena like Amazon which show the effect of large numbers on small areas of interest.

Why not use the old (LOC, DCC) and new (Joe Blogs') along side each other for a while?

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Tagged: economics, information profession, library, long tail, marketing, skills

Week 5 thing 10 Delicious and bookmarks

I've just moved a bookmark from My Favourites to Delicious which means that I will begin to be able to keep a minimalist list of bookmarks on each computer where I work. Using the Share symbol was very easy, but there wasn't an option to share on every site I had bookmarked.

I'll also be able to access the sites from any computer I use, and, when I want to clear the information overload, I'll be able to sort and weed selectively rather than just chop whatever happens to be on a particular computer.

week 5 thing 10 Delicious v Google

This is a screenshot ofthe VHL Delicious site. A reader had phoned fo find out if we had a particular item but a quick search of the shelves showed that we had stopped subscribing the the physical copy in 1976. I was able to get an update on the current publications from the bookmark on ourDelicious site and to email the URL to the student.

The same search term in Google brought up the site in the first hit.