Michael Stephens is one of my favourite librarians. One of the most enjoyable things is the memories of how libraries affect a person...

An apothecary is a historical name for a medical professional who formulated and dispensed medicine to physicians, surgeons and patients. ...

New Approach to Search is a must read for those interested in search technology. Joe Weinman goes into the nitty-gritty of search algorith...

Let me introduce Yandex . It's an interesting search engine because it precedes Google. In fact, Yandex was founded in the late 1980s, ...

BBC gets it .   In the latest issue of Nodalities magazine (one of my favourite reads), BBC reveals how it is applying the bottom-up approac...

It is regrettable indeed.   I was deeply saddened and somewhat enraged by the Wall Street Journal' s closing of its library.   In our in...

I recently presented at TOTS . What is video sharing Whyshould we care? How can be of use for information professionals? What are some i...

Who uses Web 2.0 to its fullest capacity? Barack Obama does. The President posts regularly to Vimeo. Vimeo is different in that it offe...

View more presentations from Allan Cho . I had recently given a presentation as part of a panel at the Association of American Publisher...

Information professionals everywhere take note: Google is uncomfortably sliding. Gone are the days that we 'google' for information...

Ushahidi at NetSquared (loop) View more presentations or upload your own. (tags: conference ushahidi ) I'm going to be talking soon ...

I heart Nova Spivak .  The grandson of management professor Peter Drucker, Spivak is an intellectual in his own right.  Not only is he a sem...

Half a year ago, I had a posting discussing Katherine Adams' seminal article about librarians and the Semweb. Katherine made a point abo...

I've always been intrigued by hakia, which is considered the first SemWeb search engine of its kind. It is said that for the next genera...

Web 2.0 The Magazine: A Journal for Exploring New Internet Frontiers is an important new journal that librarians and information professio...