I was recently asked in a job interview how Web 3.0 would work for a law firm. It's made me think on the fly: how would the Web of the...

As information professionals , we face a plethora of choice each and everyday of our working lives, from what brand of coffee to buy in the ...

The Long Tail is the essence of Web 2.0 . Understanding how the Long Tail works not only helps in examining how social software such as bl...

Tim O'Reilly offers an intriguing hierarchy of Web 2.0-ness . In this hierarchy, the highest level is to embrace the network, to underst...

Google CEO Eric Schmidt gives a fairly succinct definition of what exactly is Web 3.0.

It's BC Day here in British Columbia , Canada. Have restful, happy, and sunny long weekend everyone. Here's a fireside chat betw...

Lance Ulanoff is not telling me anything new with his article in PC Magazine. I’ve been saying this for quite a while now . The internet te...

Ellyssa Kroski , Reference Librarian at Columbia University, has just come out with a fantastic article on using Web 2.0 for academic librar...

There are some books which I classify as being the "gold standards" for understanding the new Web. I believe all information pro...

Not everyone gets his or her dream job right out of LIS school. For some, it might mean years of toil and abuse in the dungeons of part-tim...

This is what happens when technology breaks down.... Breaking News: All Online Data Lost After Internet Crash

Sometimes we forget (or too preoccupied with "real" library matters) to realize that the library is a social space . As much as l...

Watching the Transformers was a marvellous treat. Personally and professionally. As the movie was unfolding before my eyes, there were a ...

While much has been written about Web 2.0 , not much has been mentioned about postmodernism in librarianship. Is there a connection? Mark...

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...