December 2006
Phil Bradley: Finding what you need with the best search engines
by 29 othersbased on the question: What do you need to find and what do you already know?
A List Apart: Primer
by 3 otherstips on a variety of aspects of web sites for new designers and web site owners
November 2006
jlesage's reviews
my tagcloud from stumbleupon; just discovered I could import my delicious tags and comments there. Stumbleupon is my newest obsessively visited site.
SEOmoz's Web 2.0 Awards
March 06; useful discursive comparison by judges of top contenders in each of many categories, which rhetorically can be used to teach students how to write about the Internet; sizeable honorable mention lists
Office 2.0 Database
by 41 othersOct 06 list of numerous web2.0 apps related to office functions, plus links to reviews of them, when available.Effort to have all apps be on web and not desktop, including photo, sound, and video editing, web publishing, drawing.
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
by 7 othersrather technical; useful list of many web2.0 bloggers; frequent comparison of sites serving a similar function
Virtual Karma: Complete List of Web 2.0 Applications | Rian's blog
by 36 othersuseful annotations, garnering many comments and additions
Choose the Best Search for Your Information Need
by 9 othershow 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
H2O Playlist: UDL and Web 2.0: Confronting the Drunk Librarian
considering Web 2.0 in the context of Internet useability for people with disabilities
Bokardo - Social Web Design » Thoughts on the Impending Death of Information Architecture
interesting thesis in post, even more interesting string of comments
Research Beyond Google: 119 Authoritative, Invisible, and Comprehensive Resources | OEDb
by 7 othersThe invisible web, or deep web, is estimated to be 500 times bigger than the searchable web and comprises databases and results of specialty search engines that the popular search engines can't index.
StumbleUpon
by 62 othersFirefox 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"
Visualizing Del.icio.us Roundup
by 16 othersvisualize how you use delicious; a generally useful blog here
October 2006
Swarming Media
blog that give good reports on conferences and reviews of books, often on digital culture
August 2006
» Del.icio.us Adds A Couple New Features
adding a delicious "badge" to your own site; how to find other "active users" who made search on same keyword or tag
July 2006
Collectivate.net - 'journalisms' - Collective Action
response to provactive essay "Ditial Maoism," protesting editorial control in Wikipedia, among other things
May 2006
Peter Morville: the Tagsonomy interview
by 2 othersmajor thinker about users, usability, tagging, searches and contexts
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