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I’d say I can’t believe I missed International Special Librarians Day, but I can. It was Thursday. (What a week it’s been!)

D-Lib Magazine has an article analyzing social bookmarking tools and some of the trends in organizing Web information, like tagging.
Shimon Rura, noting the article highlights his system Frassle, thinks it’s excellent.
Rah rah Frassle!

How timely for me! Unfortunately, I’m too burned out to read it at the moment.
spotted on Library Supporter

Marianne just started a weblog about library support staff issues called Library Supporter. Great stuff!

Check out this page by Bob Jensen at Trinity University with lots of notes about search engines, feeds, and other Web technology.

Well, the citizen journalism discussion at Thursday’s weblog writer’s group wasn’t nearly as exciting as I hoped it would be. The moderator, Lisa Williams, showed us a bunch of citizen jouranlism efforts, but there wasn’t much discussion about what citizen journalism is and such. We’ve hashed that out many times before, so there wasn’t exactly [...]

Arik Hesseldahl of Forbes explores issues related to preserving digital images, including storing negatives and files in multiple locations and storage media becoming obsolete.
noted on LISNews