Thoughts on Everything is Miscellaneous, Part 1

I just finished reading David Weinberger’s book, Everything is Miscellaneous (thanks, Brad!). It’s a great read - one that I highly recommend to everyone who reads my blog. You might not agree with everything in the book, but I guarantee the book will make you think.
First things first - Weinberger MUST know some librarians! Throughout [...]

Tracking SXSW with Netvibes

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SXSW is this week! For those of you not familiar with SXSW, it’s a very cool “content” conference. It used to be pretty much just focused on music, but in recent years it’s also included film and “interactive” tracks. The Interactive track is the cool one - it’s all about techie web 2.0 [...]

The Future of Tag Clouds

This is an interesting article about the future of tag clouds (written by Joe Lamantia). Here’s how Joe sees tag clouds developing over the next 18 months:

More people will recognize them and understand what they do (ok, that one’s a no-brainer)

more support for “cloud consumers” to meet context needs (interesting…)
attached controls or features and functionality [...]

Interesting Amazon Tags

Some of you probably know that amazon.com has started offering a version of tagging. I’m getting a kick out of some of the tags! Let me show you two examples:
Example 1, from The Hobbit:

Example 2, from Nintendo’s Game Boy Advance:

See the difference? The Hobbit taggers are supplying tags that “seem normal” - tolkien, fiction, etc. [...]