Seth Godin is a best-selling author, entrepreneur and agent of change. He is the author of Permission Marketing, a New York Times best sell...

Day #2 of SLA was full of fascinating discussions. Stephen Abram 's session, "Reality 2.0 - Transforming ourselves and our Associat...

Just when one thought that bibliographic control has changed, it might change some more. On Day 1 of SLA in Seattle, I went to a fascinati...

The e-readiness rankings have been released. And it reveals that the US and Hong Kong are the leaders in this category for e-readiness. ...

I was honoured to have been interviewed by Richard Wallis of Talis. I was also quite humbled by the whole experience, as I learned just how...

According to Wikipedia, the Easterlin Paradox is a key concept in happiness economics . Theorized by economist Richard Easterlin in the 197...

I've always believed that librarians should and will play a part in the rise of the Semantic Web and Web 3.0. I've gone into the the...

There are some good Web 2.0 applications and websites. Then there is WebAppeal . The web service is based on the principle of 'Softwar...

Day 4 has come and gone. What did I learn? XML is not easy. Programming is even tough business, not for the faint of heart or mind. The ma...

I am Day 2 of the Digital Humanities Summer Institute . Prior to this workshop, I had no inkling of what was digital humanities. Not anymor...

The SemanticHacker $1Million Innovators’ Challenge and new open API for Semantic Discovery has recently launched by TextWise, LLC. The Chal...

Jeff Beall wrote an article called Dublin Core: An Obituary . In it Beall asserts that the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative is a failed expe...

I came across this interesting article from the Vancouver Sun, Post-modern business model: It's free . Videogame company Nexon has bee...

Sometimes you just read an article, and go, I get it. A lightbulb shines brightly above you. Then you quickly turn it off to be energy savin...

We're getting closer. Yahoo is incubating a project code-named " Search Monkey ," a set of open-source tools that allow user...