Thing #14: Delicious

I've been using Delicious for more than five years now (my first bookmarks were added on 20 August 2003!) and I can't live without it. Granted, I still use the bookmarks toolbar in my browsers for the sites I visit constantly, but I consider my Delicious account my archive. I also use my Delicious account in a somewhat unique way in that I use it to organize the links for all my workshops and presentations.

Pre-Delicious when someone attended one of my workshops they would get a floppy disk (yep, remember those) which always contained at least one file, a Web page with links to all the sites I presented in class. Although this worked, there were problems, the main one being that there was no way for me to keep those links up to date for those that had attended a previous class. (This was also back when sharing wasn't considered as important so part of the idea was to only give the links to those that took the class. I'm totally over that now.)

So, with Delicious I can just give attendees a single URL and tell them to go there and get all the links. For example, the links for my XHTML workshop can be found at http://delicious.com/travelinlibrarian/class-xhtml. This way as I change the class, and change the relevant links, the list is always relevant and up-to-date. And, because most of my bookmarks are public the attendees can explore beyond those bookmarks through to related ones via tags and the rest of my account through to the accounts of other Delicious users.

I also encourage the use of the Delicious tag clouds on library sites. So much so that the new version of the RVLS site (which I designed) has a Delicious tag cloud. The forthcoming redesigned Panhandle site will also include a Delicious tag cloud if everything goes to plan.

I could continue on for a whole book chapter on Delicious... wait, I already have! ;-)

(Bonus points for figuring out the relevance of the image in this post.)

Thing #13: Del.icio.us

I use Del.icio.us a lot! I've still got a a set of my most used bookmarks in my browser for quick access but pretty much everything else goes into my Del.icio.is account. Most importantly I use my account to post the links that are relevant to my workshops and presentations. For example, I've tagged all the links for my blogging workshop with "class-blogs". This way, I can sent all of the blogging workshop attendees to http://del.icio.us/travelinlibrarian/class-blogs instead of giving them a piece of paper with a long list of sites and URLs on it. Also, with this method, after class, attendees can return to this URL whenever they like and see the most recent resources that I feel are relevant to the topic. I've been doing this for a little over two years now and all my students have grabbed onto the concept quite well.

What is content?

Bill Drew posted a mini-rant on his blog yesterday titled "Blog posts with no content". In this short post he complained about those who create blog posts that had no narrative but that "contain only links to things they added in del.icio.us." His reasoning: "If it is important enough for you to post a link in your blog, then write a full post about the topic."

Sorry Bill, but as someone who does the thing you're complaining about (sort of) I respectively disagree. To explain the "sort of" I don't post my del.icio.us links as a blog post but if you subscribe to my blog's feed you will get one item per day that contains the items I bookmarked that day. Since most people read my blog as a feed, I believe this would count to Bill.

I post my bookmarks because people might be interested in what I'm currently researching, preparing for, or just looking into. On a day in which I have six new links to the Kindle, this would imply that I'm thinking about it. Recently I've been adding bookmarks for Web site dealing with Creative Commons. Not because I have something particular to say about it right now, but because I'll be presenting a full-session on the topic at CIL2008. Maybe I'm bookmarking sites in preparation for a blog post in the next few days.

In any case, I like seeing people's new bookmarks without having to get yet another feed from del.icio.us. It's something they're doing and so I like all that info in one place. Ultimately, I find a lot of cool new resources from such posts so it's worth my time to at least glance at them.

Now, as for reposting tweets on your blog, that's the one that bugs me. Mainly because if I read your blog chances are you're a Twitter friend too and I don't need to see those posts twice. More importantly a day full of Twitter posts as a blog post completely takes them out of context of the conversation at the time making them mostly unintelligible.

Social Bookmarking in Plain English

The folks at CommonCraft have done it again!

del.icio.us RSS

It turns out that more than 50% of requests for data from the del.icio.us site are from RSS, not humans. Because of this the folks at del.icio.us are working to improve what gets delivered via their RSS feeds such as "offering the ability to save bookmarks straight from your feed reader" and "displaying an up-to-date count of saves, without making items appear new again in feed readers". More details on the del.icio.us blog.

CAL2006: Geek Fest 2006: What's Cool and What's a Good Investment

Jo Haight Sarline, Denver Public Library Carson Block, Fort Collins Public Library John Sulshaw, University of Colorado-Boulder Jimmy Thomas & Susan Staples, Weld Library District Jeff Donlan, Salida Regional Library Sharon Morris, Colorado State Library

• Susan
• 1st year w/ library system
• previously in manufacturing and healthcare
• invest in the virtual
• how much can be put online?
• online collaboration
• online training
• online surveys
• translation services
• 170+ lanugages
• dial a number and get an interperter online
• <$100/mo
• Concact center concept
• easy, catchy phone number
• metrics
• Hot
• Copier/Espresso maker
• USB cooler shirt
• ID rings
• DVD vending
• bestseller vending ouside the library
• John
• mobile computing
• new content & content management models
• supporting users in an advanced age of technology
• authentication
• portals
• blogs & wikis
• increased collaboration
• social networking
• blogs
• wikis
• podcasts
• MySpace
• 84 million users
• 2 million new users a month
• 48mil unique visits
• 51% of 13-17 year olds online
• 79% are 18+
• 25mil are over 30
• YouTube
• Google paid $1.65 Billion
• 100 mil videos watched a day
• 65k uploaded a day
• What's going to become of the ILS?
• Disintergaration (Marshal Breeding)
• Institutional repositories
• Libraries need to support all this stuff
• security issues
• open source model moving to libraries
• programming skills
• Jimmy
• (Aquabrowser)
• OCLC Perceptions Report
• Searches done at his member libraries (top queries in OPACs)
• Google, Yahoo
• My Account, Library Hours
• Library Journal Hotline
• The next library building
• "place"
• Jeff
• Maximize use of the OPAC
• Clean up our database
• Having functional PCs for the patrons
• Firefox
• GIMP
• Open Office
• Picassa
• Let patrons plug in their hardware
• E-media market needs to be "better sorted out"
• Skype
• Carson
• Building a staff that represent different parts of my brain but can also built on that
• Deliver information to people without barriers
• Be more involved in the culture
• Second Life Library 2.0
• Balancing abilities and constraints of what staff can do to meet the needs of users
• Technology is not always the solution
• Sharon
• Dutch Aquabrowser guys are "hot"
• Library Elf
• Plinket
• The Engaged Patron
• LibraryThing
• Free online e-books and e-audiobooks
• Second Life Library 2.0
• Searching for information is changing
• Retrevr
• Search fickr by shape & color
• Aquabrowser
• del.icio.us
• wikis
• blogs
• podcasting
• YouTube
• set aside time every week to look at something new
• libraries have a "role to inspire"
• Jo
• Be the enabler for your cusomers
• be there, be in those spaces
• you feel comfortable, they'll feel comfortable
• downloadable media
• convergence of everything
• everyone is a creator
• create a space where your patrons can be a creator
• tagging content
• no geographical boundaries
• look outside the library world for ideas and solutions
• be where your customers are complainaing about you
• thisisbroken.com
• viral marketing
• YouTube
• gaming

IL2006: The Social Web

Jesse Andrews, creator of BookBurro & lead developer of Flock 1:15-2pm Beyond Browsing

• About me
• programmer
• theoretical quantum computation
• web deveopment
• browser development
• not a librarian
• Greasemonkey & userscripts
• the web as your playgound
• Book Burro
• userscripts grow into extensions
• Flock
• extensions grow into browsers
• Browser 101: What are URLs
• www.infotoday.com resolves to IP address
• document returned bu that server is (not valid) HTML 4.01 transitional
• IP address might have information about the URL
• Google has info abt URL
• wayback machine may have info
• technorati may have info
• browsers use these resources to show render a representation of the url
• HTML has a recommendation
• Greasemonkey
• you provide the information about the URL
• created bu Aaron Boodman (now @ Google)
• simple idea
• update pages
• fix sites
• add relevancy (link to Yahoo from Google results)
• hide ads
• remove myspace music/backgrounds/styles
• new functionality
• new ideas
• Amazon Music Helper
• Free legal music
• lnk directly to the free downloadable MP3s
• de-xeni
• Boing Boing
• removes risque posts
• userscripts.org
• greasemonkey repository
• built in 2 nights in ruby on rails
• thousands of scripts
• millions of page views
• The day greasemonkey changed the internet
• make requests outside yor domain
• Book Burro
• remixing books
• open data - web services
• screen scraping for ISBN
• 300 (horrible) lines of JavaScript
• unintended uses - acquisitions
• Book Burro + Libraries
• Book Burro + World Cat
• Book Burro + Library Lookup
• John Udell
• Book Burro + Talis
• Silkworm Directory
• Book Burro + Book Mooch
• Find in online swap sites
• Future
• Side project
• ideas/requests? tell me.
• Flock
• open source social web browser built on firefox
• flickr
• advanced search
• rss reader
• blog editor
• full text search of history/bookmarks
• del.icio.us intergration

IL2006: Innovative Uses of Web 2.0 Technologies

Karen Coombs, University of Houston Jason Clark, Montana State University Karen: Incorporating Web 2.0 into Library Web Sites

• What is Web 2.0
• Services to collaborate & share
• movement toward more dynamic & interactice web
• examples
• social software
• blogs
• del.icio.is
• wikis
• folksonomies
• rss
• APIs
• AJAX
• Radical Decentralization
• Web site updated and created by many different people
• wikis & blogs
• librariy web site allows any staff to update any content
• Small Pieces Loosely Joined
• Combination of different technologies
• wikis
• blogs
• CMS
• Library's CMS made up of modules for different content types
• content is resuable throughout the site
• any piece of the CMS can be replaced as needed
• Perpetual Beta
• deploy systems early and make constant improvements
• users are part of the development process
• deploy new systems to a small group of staff to test and help us refine
• gather constant input and make continuous improvements
• Remixable Content
• APIs allow content to be incorporated into other systems
• library web site can incorporate content from external sources
• content which is part of the library's site can be used on multiple pages
• AJAX to add database link to any page, blog, wiki
• User as contributor
• allows users to add and update content
• class wikis
• wiki model for CMS
• instutitional repositories for scholarly content from faculty, students and staff
• library hosts blogs
• user tagging and review content in catalog
• Rich User Experience
• multimedia, interactivity, GUI-style application experience
• video
• sound
• screencasts
• personalization and customization
• space for collaboration and interaction
• chat
• VoIP
• Demo of UofH's CMS

Jason: Social Tagging and Folksonomies in Practice

• Agenda
• examples
• define
• suggest applications
• pros & cons
• where can you learn more
• Examples
• del.icio.is
• amazon
• flickr
• technorati
• Definitions
• Tagging
• assigning descriptive metadata
• Tag
• The descriptive metadata
• Folksonomies
• taxonomy created by folks
• Library use cases
• find additional access points in library catalogs
• assign friendly terms to indexes and databases
• create communities of practice around library articles
• organize a series of web pahes for a library guide
• give users opportunities to label library web pages
• Library applications
• tags.library.upenn.edu
• WPOPAC
• Social Tagging: Why does it work?
• embracessocal nature of the web
• curency
• scales to large datasets
• offers a broader discovery model
• adaptable
• maps and displays simple relationships between items
• What's the Hitch?
• lack of precision
• lack of true hierarchy
• vulnerable to "gaming" of the system
• lack of a controlled vocabulary
• users can be wrong
• When to use it?
• establish an architecture of participation
• organize resources for a company intranet
• allow a class to collaborate and buils a reference guide
• build and refine library controlled vocabulary
• anytime there is a browse or search function
• Reference list...
• ZoomCloud
• TagCloud
• tagsonomy.com (blog)
• FreeTag
• unalog
• Final thoughts
• design matters
• scale matters
• a new source of data

dead.licious

dead.licious is a tool for verifying that all of your bookmarks in your del.icio.us accounts are still valid and gives you the option of removing those dead links. Unfortunately, it's only available for the Mac. (Michael Stephens, let me know how well it works.) Someone please make a PC version of this.

TagFetch

TagFetch is a new search engine that allows you to enter a keyword and perform a search against the tags in flickr, YouTube, Newsvine, reddit, tailrank, del.icio.us, technorati, and feedster. Shown right is the results for a simple search on "library".

The links on the left (News, Blogs, Bookmarks, and Media) allow you to limit your results by type of service. This can also be done on the main search page but I told it to search everything for testing purposes. Also, the list of "Popular TagFetches" on the left are interesting yet somewhat predictable. (It's nice to see "Web 2.0" in the top five along with Lindsay Lohan, booth babes, sex, and porn.)

Tag, I'm it.

Ah, the socialness of Web 2.0... I've got my own tag in del.icio.us.

The "four things" meme

I've been tagged...

Four jobs you have had in your life:
1. Internet Trainer
2. Writer
3. Bookseller
4. Clerk @ a Bed, Bath, & Beyond

Four movies you would watch over and over:
1. Labyrinth
2. Brotherhood of the Wolf
3. Chasing Amy
4. High Fedelity

Four places you have lived:
1. Rochester, NY
2. Albany, NY
3. Las Vegas, NV
4. Aurora, CO

Four TV shows you love to watch:
1. 24
2. Bones
3. Battlestar Galactica
4. Doctor Who

Four places you have been on vacation:
1. London, England
2. San Francisco, CA
3. St. Louis, MO
4. Phoenix, AZ

Four websites I visit daily
1. Bloglines
2. Blogger
3. del.icio.us
4. flickr

Four of my favorite foods:
1. Sushi
2. Cheesecake
3. Pizza
4. Garlic Nan

Four places I would rather be right now:
1. Anywhere but a Holiday Inn
2. Anywhere but a Holiday Inn
3. Anywhere but a Holiday Inn
4. Anywhere but a Holiday Inn

Four people I will tag thinking they will respond.....
1. I do these but I don’t pass them along…
2.
3.
4.

Four things I always carry with me
1. Pen
2. Treo 600
3. Wallet
4. Keys

CIL2006 Presentation

CIL2006 Presentation
Originally uploaded by travelinlibrarian.

The slides for my post conference on RSS are finished and the file's been sent off to IT for photocopying. Yes, there are 199 slides but 90% of them are screenshots that the sttendees can take notes on while I'm projecting the live sites at the front of the room. Those interested in what my post conference is covering, check out all the CIL2006 items in my del.icio.us account.

Computers in Libraries 2006

Yes, I will be attending CIL06 this year in Washington, DC (March 22-25). I'm ariving on Wednesday afternoon, attending the sessions on Thursday and Friday, presenting a post-conference workshop on Saturday morning and flying home Saturday evening. Here's the official description of my workshop:

Integrating RSS into Your Web Site
Saturday, 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Michael Sauers, Internet Trainer, BCR
RSS feeds are an excellent way to receive information from the Internet today. What many people don't know is that you can receive that information and easily repurpose and republish it on your Web site with little technical knowhow. Imagine automatically posting up-to-date local or industry headlines on your library’s home page. This is what you can do in just a few simple steps. Our expert Internet trainer shows you how to do just this.

I'll also be covering some RSS basics including using an aggregator and creating RSS feeds using free tools along with other more advanced topics such as FeedBurner and Feed2Podcast.

For more information on what the workshop will cover check out my del.icio.us account under the cil06 tag. (A special thanks to Michael Stephens for helping me wrap my head around the workshop's topic.)

If you'll be attending (or not) be sure to check out Meredith's conference wiki. I'm also assuming the the flickr tag will be CIL2006 since last year it was CIL2005.

Request for help from del.icio.us users

I'm woring on my next book and currently writing the chapter on del.icio.us. What I need is for some folks to send me some links using the for: tag. Just pick a few of your bookmarks (nothing offensive please, I'll be including a screenshot) and tag them with "for:travelinlibrarian". (Doing me this favor will earn you some karma points and you'll even get your name listed in the acknowledgements.) TIA!

The Reference Librarians Guide to Mastering Internet Searching

I'm planning on being very open when it comes to this next book. To get started, if you're interested in seeing what sort of sites I'll be covering, check out the search tag in my del.icio.us account.

I'm also looking for a good place to start putting up my notes for the book so that folks can read and comment on them. Maybe a wiki. Maybe another blog. I'm just not sure yet. All suggestions are welcome.

As for the title, it's not final. Why? Well, the original plan was to do an update to my Using the Internet as a Reference Tool book but my head is starting to veer away from a direct update. With all of the new resources that are out there (podcasts, flickr, data visualization, video) I'm thinking that just updating the previous book isn't going to cut it.

IL05: What I learned at IL05

• Everything cool is beta, or maybe even pre-alpha.
• WiFi is necessary at conference, it's no longer an option.
• Social software is where it's at (del.icio.us, flickr, Reader²)
• Conference wikis work in advance, not during, as everyone's too busy.
• Conference blogs may not work as bloggers want to post to their blog and non-bloggers don't care to participate.
• Tagging is fun.

del.icio.us stats

Just finished listening to a podcast of Joshua Schachter of del.icio.us and, despite the audio quality royally sucking I did learn one interesting bit: the domains that have the most bookmarks in del.icio.us are del.icio.us, amazon.com, Microsoft, the BBC, and the Washington Post. (Go figure on that first one.)

Meta Feed

While listening to an episode of the Web 2.0 podcast on the way home I got an idea. Using Feed Digest I've created a single page/feed that shows the last 20 items from my flickr, Reader², and del.icio.us accounts along with my main blog & the Satellite Libraries blog. This way anyone who wants to keep track of what I'm up to doesn't need to either subscribe to five individual feeds or bookmark five different pages.

Please try it out and let me know what you think.

del.icio.us/travelinlibrarian

O.k. Now that I'm back from conference I've decided to try using del.icio.us to store my new bookmarks. You can check out my links at del.icio.us/travelinlibrarian and also subscribe to them via RSS. For the uninitiated, del.icio.us is a place where you can post and tag (think flickr) your bookmarks. If you want to know what I'm bookmarking as "interesting and useful" try looking at the above link. (There's not much there yet but I'm working on it.)

IL05: Blogs & Wikis Face Off

Jenny Levine, The Shifted Librarian

Steven M. Cohen, PubSub Concepts, Inc.

• What happened today?
• http://stevenmcohen.pbwiki.com/WhatHappened
• Our wiki and blog didn’t work. Why? – http://internetlibrarian.pbwiki.com/ - http://openinternetlibrarian.blogspot.com/
• Is there a need?
• ITI blog and what makes it different
• Flickr and Technnrati worked
• Other wikis that work
• LibSuccess – www.libsuccess.org
• Unofficial ALA Wiki – http://metedith.wolfwater.com/wiki/
• Advantage: blog
• East to post
• Chronological order
• Automatic RSS feeds
• Comments to posts
• Only authors can edit the contents of a post
• Why might the blog work? Because it gives non-bloggers a place to post thoughts and it could be easy to audioblog.
• Why might a blog not work? Because bloggers already have a place to blog, and non-bloggers don’t want to blog.
• Advantage: Wiki
• Anyone, anywhere can contribute
• True equalized collaboration when accounts are not required
• Can create any order/flow to the information
• Why work: Anyone can connect @ conference or not
• Why not: Not sure what to add and where to add it.
• Advantage: Technorati
• Automatically brought together all posts from participating blogs if tagged
• It’s been a lot of fun
• Advantage: Flickr
• 105 photos in less than two days
• Mass tagging
• Human beings
• Ideas/comments from the audience
• Online tickler file
• FARQ: Frequently Asked Reference Questions (blog)
• RSS to email – RMail
• There is a module for MediaWiki that will output RSS feeds
• http://eSnips.com/
• Google announced web-based database service today [M: All your base belong to Google]
• Blog ownership content issues, what are they?
• What you write is yours
• Re-use
• Work product
• Trademark blog vs. Bloglines
• Creative Commons License
• “flickr owns your pics” – complaints – changed the language
• http://www.CiteULike.org/
• Scholarly version of del.icio.us
• www.connotea.org
• Powermarks - www.kaylon.com/power.html
• For-fee social bookmarking
• www.furl.net
• More powerful than del.icio.us
• But not social
• Library Thing

IL05: Tuesday Keynote

Social Computing & the Info Pro Elizabeth Lane Lawley, Rochester Institute of Technology

• About a ½ dozen folks in the audience are blogging this, two years ago, there wasn’t anyone blogging her presentation
• It’s significant that social software is becoming part of the hallway conversation, not just the presentation
• Technorati indexed their 20 millionth blog yesterday. It was from an elementary class in France.
• Search for “liz” on Google and her blog is the third hit. That’s the power of blogs. Regularly updated relevant content that people link to
• She’ll be blogging her own talk. A first for her. (Not live though, “I’m not that good at multitasking.”)
• “The Long Tail”, Chris Anderson article in Wired magazine
• A few with a lot, most have a few
• The bulk of the content is in the most that have a few
• “I want to read the stuff that not everybody else already knows.”
• Librarians are good at knowing what’s in the long tail
• “if you liked that, you’ll like this”
• Social software is trying to create the computer equivalent of a good librarian. We won’t be there for quite a while.
• These tools augment, not replace
• “we need a human component. We need a social component” in these tools
• Blog: Creating Passionate Users (writer of the “head first” series of computer books)
• “we make the tools dumber because we think the users are dumber”
• You can’t change your users. You can educate them, but not change them
• Let’s make the tools foster better use.
• Make search better
• You go to friends before the web to find something to do @ conference
• That’s your social network
• How do you fin a good blog? Ask someone who’s also interested in that topic.
• Yahoo!’s My Web – bases results on list of trusted information sources (2 degrees – my friends and their friends)
• There are no bad links. Everything’s picked by my trusted resources
• Sent URLs by friends via e-mail, never going to get to it
• Now, put it into del.icio.us and then have your friends subscribe to it.
• “Information Network Discovery” – who are the experts in the field?
• See the resources. Also see the people who use those resources.
• Not all social networks are equal. They may be my friend and I’ll accept an IM form them but they may not be good at picking out good information
• del.icio.us – LaGrangeParkLibrary (username)
• Don’t bookmark at the desk, use del.icio.us instead
• Get to from any computer
• Patrons can get to from outside the library
• Social information filter for those that don’t want to save bookmarks
• [M: Note for my next reference book: USE THIS!]
• Link on library page: ad me to del.icio.us bookmarks (make me a trusted information resource)
• Wouldn’t it be great if your doctor would do this to point you to good resources? Or maybe the local health sciences organization?
• Warning: all this could focus you too much and remove outside, unexpected sources
• That’s where librarians come in.
• 1200 items in her del.icio.us account because she wants to share
• If you rely on tagging to find things, you loose the long tail
• Good folksonomy relies on critical mass
• Web design: what are people in del.icio.us calling it, this is what they’ll respond to, then call it that.
• If there isn’t a critical mass, it’s not tagged, and that’s what you’re relying on, you won’t find it
• Do I want a majority rules approach to naming things
• The ESP Game (Carnegie Mellon)
• Assign meaningful keywords to a random image
• Play against someone else
• When both of you pick the same word, you move to the next level
• When a word match happens several times, that word becomes taboo
• Lowest common denominator approach
• Shows interesting biases
• Pic of woman, typical response is “girl”
• Pic of man, “boy” almost never comes up
• Pic of black girl, racial slur comes up
• 43 Folders
• Lifehacker
• Continuous computing: just because it’s bad for you doesn’t mean it’s bad for everyone.
• Attention if a form of capital. I can’t demand your attention without giving you something in exchange. If I demand your attention, you’re going to find a way around it.
• Why do we want to control attention?
• The technology doesn’t let us do that any more!
• Negatives
• We all feel overwhelmed
• Everything’s competing for our attention
• Person on stage vs ceiling tiles vs email on smartphone
• NYT Article: “Meet the Lifehackers”
• People @ Microsoft who research how we deal with interruptions
• Bigger screens make you more productive
• The tools are out there but you still need to take control of what you need to do.
• Who better to control and influence tagging than the people who know classification (librarians)

Social Software & Sites for PLs

Jenny Levine, The Shifted Librarian Jessamyn West, Librarian.net Flickr, Tagging, and the F-Word (Jessamyn)

• Features
• Easy upload
• [M: Jessamyn just said "groks"]
• easy find
• easy share
• Tagging
• Metadata by me
• ...by my family & friends
• ...by anyone
• Tagging vs Classification
• Can co-exist
• Must regognise the differences
• it's not a fight
• Folksonomy
• user created metadata
• grassroots community classification of digital assets
• flat namespace
• not mutually exclusive with other systems
• helps with scalability problems
• involves the users in the problems
• does have the "synonym problem"

del.icio.us (Jenny)

• social bookmarking
• the bookmarking version of flickr
• tagged boomkarks
• RSS feeds of tags and users
• You can search your bookmarks but others can't search your bookmarks
• Use to research new topics
• These are the sites are reading and are important enough to bookmark
• Hacks
• ToRead
• ToRent
• ForName (private = for:username)
• Download media in iTunes
• del.icio.us for your library
• LaGrangeParkLibrary (for the ref desk)
• Thomas Ford Memorial Library (aaron schmidt, displaying the feed back onto the Web site)
• Floksonomies sites
• CiteULike (accademic)
• last fm (music)
• 43 things (what do you want to do, meet others who want to do the same thing)
• 43 places (where do you want to visit)
• Technorati (blogs)
• MetaFilter
• Yahoo! Search
• Yummy! (hosts PDFs)
• Amazon.com search inside the book concordanance
• bookswelike.net
• LibraryThing