Thursday, June 30, 2005

The importance of RSS

Jenny Levine, aka the shifted librarian, on Why RSS and Folksonomies Are Becoming So Big is well worth a read.

"And if Hale is right about all of this, it makes you wonder if this isn’t just one more place librarians and our expertise aren’t going to be found, even though we should be. And don’t we already have goldmines of data that could be found in these services if we just started tagging them (in addition to the structured searching we already provide)?"

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