Back on the free-tagging thing. One downside which is getting some play lately. It’s one thing to use offensive or hurtful language when you are tagging your own content, but what about when those tags are shared in a large nebulous community of people with widely disparate political and personal beliefs? Rebecca Blood talks about some of those issues. [jjg]
ala, day second to last
Good morning. Most of the ALA blogs have wrapped up but we’ve still got a few more Council meetings to go to and I’m not out of here until tomorrow. Back to work at the library on Thursday. Notable this morning is that ALA is launching a recruitment site to help bring more potential librarians into the field. I’m sure you know my position on this.
in boston
Hey there — I’m in ALA and the escalators are off. We make jokes that it’s because it’s Sunday but really there was a power failure and they have to get a [union] electrician in to get the escalators going on a Sunday. Some fun. Good news is the wifi is strong and functional and useful. Come see me today at the skillshare at 1:30 in the exhibit hall. I’ve heard rumors that the nascent Intellectual Property task force of SRRT may be planning a program on Google [scholar/library/answers/&c.] for Annual in Chicago which I think would be excellent.
spotted at the skillshare
Steven’s got a few pictures up from the exhibit hall, including one of me in mid-gesture at the skillshare that I will keep on my desktop as a reminder that, as much as I’d like to, I don’t own my own image.
holy crap – google runs ala search engine!
Speaking of ALA, they now have Google running their site search. This is an amazing improvement to the functionality of the site for a number of reasons: bookmarkable search results, rich search syntax, understandable familiar results. Let’s hope this is a real step in the right direction of increased site usability overall.