Thursday, November 20, 2008

Unit 12 readings

Wikis are inarguably quite useful. They're collaborative and interactive and really, really easy to use. I think they're a little annoying, but ultimately good to know and use. I see no reason why wikis and libraries cannot coexist & cohabitate with results that are anything less than successful.

I love social tagging, and I use folksonomies like crazy. My flickr relies intrinsically on tags, as does my del.icio.us. Incorporating them into library catalogs scares me at times, but Penn has had such dazzling success that I don't see why it wouldn't work everywhere. And probably with really great results.

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