It has been more than a decade since the advent of the World Wide Web. When it first came out, librarians worried about how this new mediu...

Information retrieval is an art, with creativity as a core ingredient. When done right, it is fun. With success, it is fabulously rewar...

At dinner today, a fellow colleague asked what are my perceptions of the the profession and the job market. My answer? I am optimistic. ...

The Emerging Web 2.0 social software: an enabling suite of sociable technologies in health and health care education offers a very nice per...

Participatory Networks: The Library as Conversation is an excellent read, one definitely worthy of serious consideration for practitioners ...

Librarians (and all information professionals) need to understand what the Long Tail is in order to fully comprehend the impact of Web 2.0 ...

Library 2.0 has received quite a bit of controversy recently when Wikipedia community debated whether the term deserved a place on Wikipedi...

Every one has a "trigger" for reflection in his or her career. Mine came relatively recently when I was confronted with an inter...

In my continuing series, of which I have written here , and here , and here , and also here , Paul Anderson's What is Web 2.0? Ideas, te...

Managers Not MBAs by Henry Mintzberg is an intriguing book not only because it offers insight into the flimsiness of MBA programs, but als...

Even with Web 2.0 , searching for information is not an easy task. There's still an amazing mass of hidden content in the Invisible Web...

Nothing like a little midweek humour to cure away the malaise and pass the time. Every now and then, I try to post something different to...

Thomas Friedman's The World is Flat is a must-read for information professionals. Although the word "Web 2.0" is not found a...

Paul Miller has written an interesting article on creating mashups for a library contest. A total of eighteen entries were received for th...

I've got some time now and finally catching up with some reading. I've got my hand on Thomas Friedman's The World Is Flat: A Br...