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The changing Web

Learning with e's

tools include popular applications such as blogs, wikis and podcasting; social networking sites such as FaceBook and LinkedIn; photo and videosharing services such as Flickr and YouTube; familiar utilities such as RSS feeds, social tagging (e.g. Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association, 27, 65-67. geotagging). Maramba, I.

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with e's

Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association 27, 65-67. Continued tomorrow References Barsky, E. and Purdon, M. Introducing Web 2.0: Social networking and social bookmarking for health librarians. Kamel Boulos, M. Maramba, I. and Wheeler, S.

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Finders keepers, losers weepers

Clive on Learning

This may have worked in the context of the library, but there is neither the will nor the resources available to categorise and label the billions of assets on the web on a top-down basis. Intelligence is provided by real people from the bottom-up to aid social discovery.

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Social Bookmarking: Your Favorites Really Want to be Free

Mike Taylor

It also makes finding that one unique site you bookmarked 3 years ago easier to find. Even if you’re not sure what tagging is, you’ve already seen it in action on sites like Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, Diigo, and many others. Unlike library subject cataloging, which follows a strict set of guidelines (i.e.,