Downsizing vehicles

Cow Transportation Fail � FAIL Blog: Pictures and Videos of Owned, Pwnd and Fail Moments

I know we're supposed to downsize our vehicles to be green, but this is ridiculous!

Web 3.0 - The Semantic Web Cometh | 21st Century Connections

Web 3.0 - The Semantic Web Cometh | 21st Century Connections

For anyone just starting to think about the semantic web, this is a good overview...

Flash-Mob Cataloging Party

LibraryThing: Flash-Mob Cataloging Party: Rhode Island Audubon Society

I had to post this for the title alone. I never thought I'd hear cataloging and flash-mob in the same sentence. It reminds me of one of my favorite NancyButtons:

Librarian Terrorist--get out of my way or I'll catalog you

How to predict gadget success | Business Tech - CNET News

How to predict gadget success | Business Tech - CNET News

I think the reasoning here also applies to our library catalogs...

Author's Guild Claims Kindle 2 Copyright Infringement | LISNews

This is just plain nuts.

Author's Guild Claims Kindle 2 Copyright Infringement | LISNews

Early Reviewers | LibraryThing

Early Reviewers | LibraryThing

This is a wild example of crowdsourcing! LibraryThing users are signing up for the chance to receive early copies of books and post their reviews on LibraryThing. The publishers typically provide LibraryThing with about 30 copies of a new book. For each title there can be anywhere from 100 to over 1,200 interested LibraryThing reviewers!

HotStuff 2.0

HotStuff 2.0

Dave Pattern has taken a really cool approach to analyzing library buzz. He's taken feeds from over 800 library blogs and crunched words in them to uncover new/hot topics. He also includes a word wheel graphic to show how the new topic links to other keywords.

For a more detail explanation of how he's doing it, check here.