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Tagging has grown to be a norm for most emerging web 2.0 sites.  Not to be outdone, Twitter smartly incorporates hashtags to its short blog-message format in spite its limit of 140 characters per entry.  It takes the format of a pound sign followed by a descriptor or acronym.  It provides a way […]

Michael Edson, Director of Web and New Media at the Smithsonian Institution, was the final keynote speaker at Computers in Libraries.  The Smithsonian, a collection of 28 museums and a zoo, was described as a knowledge commons on arguably the most valuable real estate in the world, a testament to the importance of knowledge and […]

Yesterday’s innovative technology is often tomorrow’s dead technology.  At Computers in Libraries rollicking Tuesday night session, Marshall Breeding, Stephen Abram, Aaron Schmidt, Amanda Etches-Johnson and Darlene Fichter surveyed dead technologies and those that were alive and well, along with a glimpse to the future.  A few themes prevailed, as throughout the conference: we have moved […]