Tag Archives: Stephen’s Lighthouse

Web 3.0 Concepts Explained in Plain English

Posted on 8 June 2009 by Rick Mason

Web 3.0 Concepts Explained in Plain English is a collection of presentations, all striving to describe the next phase of web activity and development.  If all you look at is the single slide that sums up the differences between the … Continue reading →

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Movers and Shakers 2009

Posted on 15 March 2009 by Rick Mason

Library Journal has announced the winners of the 2009 Movers & Shakers awards, and as usual, the recipients are fantastic and enthusiastic innovators who look for new ways for libraries to be better: The Alphabetical List (follow the links for … Continue reading →

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Web Tech Guy and Angry Staff Person

Posted on 9 March 2009 by Rick Mason

Web Tech Guy and Angry Staff Person (an exaggerated tale) is a video designed to be a provocative look at the arguments for opening library/museum data to web 2.0 social uses The video isn’t so much exaggerated as much as … Continue reading →

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Ranking Web of World Repositories

Posted on 3 February 2009 by Rick Mason

Cybermetrics Lab, a research group based in Spain, has released a listing of the top 300 digital repositories in the world, which include a Top 300 Repository List and a Top 300 Institutional List. This looks to be a great … Continue reading →

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