Anil Dash has a great piece on the meaning of the “toread” tag. I can’t decide whether to call his musings “verb theory” or “verbal therapy.” In any event, tag it “toread”!
You can tell that Bill Keaggy is an artist, not a librarian: otherwise he’d have developed a better classification system for this collection of found grocery lists. Now, there’s a master’s thesis idea for someone: but, first, read his book!
Going Peter Morville’s “ambient findability” one better (or worse) with this extension of the “universal resolver” concept from Bradley Horowitz of Yahoo. (Note to Mr. Horowitz: expect lots of incoming links from posts identifying this one as the “Mark of the beast”….)
Not as visuallly appealing as Shelfari and not as customizable as LibraryThing, but at least it’s a start at something social in WorldCat: so here’s my start at a list of 100 Best Readings in LIS using the new WorldCat “public lists” function. Suggestions entirely welcome. (About my list, obviously: not about WorldCat’s functionality, over which I have no control!)
