Folksonomy and Dichotomy
by Walt Crawford
You’ve probably heard of folksonomy, either under that neologism
or as tagging. Some of you doubtless help create folksonomies as users of
flickr or del.icio.us or Yahoo! My Web 2.0 or Technorati or…the list seems
endless. Tag: you’re it—and you’re building folksonomies.
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Arthur C. Clarke
by Dave White, Profiling Bibliographer
Arthur C. Clarke, author of more than 100 books on space, science and the future, died March 19, 2008 in his adopted home of Sri Lanka, at the age of 90.
Clarke had battled debilitating post-polio syndrome since the 1960s, and died of respiratory complications and heart failure.
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