public marks

PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags tagging & folksonomy

November 2006

Choose the Best Search for Your Information Need

by 9 others
how to refine a topic and its searches; updated for web 2.0 and specialty searching; good for anyone starting to do Internet research on a topic and will take you to some previously unused search tools

TeacherSource | learning.now . Tag - You're Delicious! | PBS

may 06 discussion of how delicious works; useful overview and collection of comments. PBS teachersouce is also worth visiting from time to time

StumbleUpon

by 62 others
Firefox extension offers an addictive way to search via categories or keywords or happenstance; you train it, with thumbs up or down on sites, so it learns your tastes; I prefer searches on keywords so far, and have had little desire to "network"

LibraryThing | Catalog your books online

by 56 others
You sign up, enter the name of a book, then find out what other folks who liked that book also liked; a tag cloud for the book leads to other books on this topic. Quite addictive, and I just used it to look at the info. around one book.

October 2006

Swarming Media

blog that give good reports on conferences and reviews of books, often on digital culture

July 2006

Tagwebs, Flickr, and the Human Brain (by Jakob Lodwick)

by 11 others
By looking at how we tag photos on Flickr, we can understand how humans process information. Feb, 2005

June 2006

May 2006