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some thoughts on Library 2.0: After Thomastown

Tuesday, March 6, 2007

It was great to get an invite to assist at the first Library Unconference in Australia which was held last Friday at Thomastown Library and very ably facilitated, using Open Source technology, by Christine Mackenzie and the team from Yarra Plenty Regional Libraries, who have recently completed the Charlotte-Mecklenburg program, 23 Things.
I teamed up [...]

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at e-tech, clay shirky has had enough already

Friday, April 7, 2006

“Intellectual activity consists mainly of various kinds of search”- Ian Turing.
Over the month of March there were plenty of reports on the O’Reilly E-tech conference, over at the Wired blog Monkey Bites. This report on a presentation by George Dyson, author of Darwin among the Machines, caught my eye. Says Dyson, “We think we’re searching [...]

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searching and structure: a link drop

Wednesday, December 21, 2005

On StructuredBlogging, from Software, Stupid, here.
Whilst fooling around with blogs, I also found this link to the HP Semantic Blogging research project, and promptly sent it to one of my lecturers who I thought might be interested (and he was). 
Also a link on a call for input into the Collaborative Tagging workshop at WWW2006, [...]

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