The most recent report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project provides a first glimpse of the growing importance of tagging by American Internet users (for reasons related to their mission, Pew only surveys Americans, so this glimpse is limited to Americans). Their data tell us that more than one-quarter (28%) of all American…
Tag: Social Networking
History 2.0
What does Web 2.0 mean for the humanities? Tonight at the Center for History and New Media we hosted the DC Area Technology & Humanities Forum, the title of which was “Scholarship 2.0: What Web 2.0 means for Digital Humanists.” The speakers were our own Dan Cohen, Eddie Maloney from the CNDLS project at Georgetown…
Zotero Launches!
The Center for History and New Media launched the Beta version of Zotero last night. For those of you who have not yet had the chance to play with Zotero, now is the time. Zotero is a powerful plug-in for Firefox (2.0) that allows you to save, sort, share, and annotate information from the web….
Tagging History
In the past couple of days two bloggers writing about history have weighed in on social networking and the creation of online thought communities. Kelly Lewis in Curiouser and Curiouser discusses the ways that tagging of online museum collections may help build audiences for museums–audiences that they are (or may be) losing right now. Jeremy…