Posted in Web 2.0 on May 2nd, 2007 1 Comment »
I ran into a reference to Andrew Keen’s book The Cult of the Amateur today during my feed reading. So I went to the book’s blog/website to check out about him and the book. The book peaked my interest for lots of different reasons. Mostly because I’m in the middle of writing an article about [...]
Posted in Library Systems, Web 2.0 on Jan 18th, 2007 1 Comment »
Over at Library 2.0 An Academic Perspective, Laura Cohen has a post commenting on my recent article in Computers in Libraries. She worries about the scale of 2.0 projects and how libraries can share what they’ve done so that we aren’t always reinventing the wheel. The project of remaking the Libraries site at UH may [...]
Posted in Findability, Web 2.0 on May 24th, 2006 1 Comment »
Back in March John Blyberg had a fabulous post entitled “Library 2.0 Websites: Where to begin?” that made my month. This post has been a touchstone for me all spring, because it is extremely relevant to things that I am working on right now. First, we are in the middle of building a content management [...]
Posted in AJAX, General Thoughts, Web 2.0 on Mar 28th, 2006 5 Comments »
Walt Crawford started a discussion about AJAX and breaking the back button that I want to follow up on here. First let me say that people need to note that AJAX isn’t the first web technology to “break the back button”. Java applets, Flash, some DHTML, and other embedded media objects also “break the back [...]
