[Web4lib] del.icio.us tags and bookmarking sites -- WHY DO IT?

[Josh Kuperman]

On May 23, 2005, at 12:56 PM, Patricia F Anderson wrote:

> I'm not sure if folks here have already seen this essay which is  
> relevant to this discussion.
>
> Clay Shirky's Writings About the Internet: Ontology is Overrated:  
> Categories, Links, and Tags: <http://shirky.com/writings/ 
> ontology_overrated.html>

For those of you who don't read anymore (and why should you?) you can  
here Clay Shirkey present this as a talk at http:// 
www.itconversations.com/shows/detail470.html and you might also want  
to check out http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail443.html  
(Jimmy Wales talking about why Wikipedia.org is what it is and how it  
got that way) and http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail400.html  
(Brewster Kahle talking about providing Universal Access to all  
knowledge).

When I subscribed to the IT Conversations feed and listened to these  
as podcasts, I became convinced that Libraries, Public Libraries more  
than most, are in danger of becoming totally irrelevant as far as  
providing any service of value to the people that fund them.