" Web 2.0 is social : many hands make light work. In stark contrast, Web 3.0 is industrial ." In the Journal of Social Computing ...

I'm going to hold off on adding to the Wolfram Alpha debate as I've yet to digest it all in the last week or so. But hold on. We m...

Web 3.0-ites beware. As information professionals, it's our jobs (and hobbies to a certain extent) to pick out discrepancies and the lat...

As I was flipping through the pages of the morning paper , the Public Health Agency of Canada Intelligence Network certainly made my perso...

If you dont' know by now, Twitter is a free micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates know...

This is what the future of libraries will be like. I'm excited at the unveiling of the new World Digital Library . An Internet library a...

I recently attended a fascinating talk , which proposed the idea that Web 2.0 is a commodification of knowledge . What a thought! As inf...

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...