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On Google and Privacy and Library Search

10-Jun-07

A quick comment on the latest privacy analysis conducted by Privacy International. Their methodology is a very interesting read because it appears to be directly counter to what Google is doing with search and data aggregation. Two points in particular: Data collection and processing What type of information does the site collect, with and without [...]

On Folksonomies: “Beneath the Metadata” article

16-Nov-06

My colleague Elaine Peterson has an excellent article up on folksonomies called Beneath the Metadata, Some Philosophical Problems with Folksonomy. Here she builds a good comparison of both traditional cataloging and this type of social approach. Others may have said it before, but one thing that I’m always interested in is the social aspect of [...]