Interestingly, not much has been talked about in terms of librarianship and Semantic Web technologies. It's as if there's a gap that...

The Semantic Web is far from the monolithic artificial intelligent machine which could seemingly process the whim of a user's thoughts....

Before Tim O'Reilly , there was Sir Tim Berners-Lee , who often credited as the creator of the Internet. However, what many do not know...

Ready or not, like it or not, Web 3.0 is around the corner. It's coming - so it's best to understand the technologies. Particul...

Librarians need to be aware of social searching . It's important and it's here to stay. What makes social searching so integral fo...

Summer has gone by so quickly. What happened to June? I've been culling readings from all over everywhere, aggregating the best def...

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...