Monday, January 1, 2007

What are we all looking for? 2006 Google Zeitgeist The late songwriter Kate Wolf used to sing about how "Everybody's lookin' for the same thing... it's plain to see: An old Chevy, a bass player and a country house on six acres with six bedrooms, absolutely free..." Well, maybe it was only three bedrooms, unless someone was setting up a commune. Could be. After all, she was describing a supermarket "things wanted" bulletin board back in the pre-Web '70s. (I wish she were alive today to update the song for the Craigslist era.) In a less material sense, what are we looking for today? Google knows, and tells: http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist2006.html 6:08:55 PM    comment [] Exploring del.icio.us.com for the New Year My holiday blogging was even more sparse than I expected, but I did make a good start at my transition to putting bookmark-style blog entries (or blog-style bookmarks) online with del.icio.us. I hadn't done much with "tagging" in the past because before "tags" really caught on, I had started using my blog software's "category" feature ot define separate blogs like AEJMC Newspaper and Podfolk. The del.icio.us tagging tools for Firefox made the process relatively painless, but I haven't fully committed to putting all of my bookmark collections on a for-free website, no matter how well established. But del.icio.us certainly would be a better tool for organizing and updating lists than that old site of mine. Anyhow, now that I have more than 125 pages bookmarked with del.icio.us, some patterns (and a lot of overlap) are beginning to emerge in my "cloud" of tag topics: academic | americana | apple | archives | attribution | audio | avatars | awards | bands | banjo | bebo | berkeley | blog | blogger | bloggers | blogging | blogs | bluegrass | blues | bookmarking | books | bubba | bulletinboards | business | calendar | citation | citizenjournalism | citizenmedia | cms | cnet | collaboration | collegemedia | community | copyright | corrections | courant | Creativecommons | crowdsourcing | css | cut-and-paste | defamation | del.icio.us | design | dictionary | digitalculture | django | drupal | editing | education | English | ethics | facebook | fiddle | folk | folkmusic | forums | free | freespeech | gigaom | giraffe | google | government | grammar | greatsmokies | greatsmoky | guardian | hartford | hiking | history | html | humor | images | imagination | innovation | instapundit | interactivity | international | internet | jobs | jobsearch | journalism | journalist | journalists | knoxville | language | law | lawrence | lessig | lexicograaphy | lexicography | libel | library | linkage | linkedin | literacy | local | longtail | magazines | mapping | media | medialaw | mediareform | microsoft | mobile | moveabletype | mp3 | multimedia | music | myspace | neologism | neologisms | networking | newmedia | news | newspaper | newspapers | newsu | newswriting | OED | oldtimemusic | online | onlinejournalism | opensource | opinion | orkut | outdoor | permalinks | photo-manipulation | photography | photojournalism | photos | plagiarism | platform | podcast | podcasts | poynter | pr | press | pressreleases | preview | professional | programming | Proquest | publishing | pulitzer | python | quicktime | radio | rdf | recreation | reporters | research | resume | robcurley | roots | RSS | ruby | scholarship | scripps | search | secondlife | sixapart | smartmobs | social | socialbookmarking | socialnetworking | SocialSoftware | software | southknoxbubba | spj | stepno | stock | streaming | stringbands | style | syndication | tagging | teaching | technology | Tennessee | theory | todo | tools | tutorial | tutorials | tv | university | usability | userland | video | vlog | vocabulary | vr | web | web2.0 | webcast | webdesign | webpublishing | wiki | winer | wordpress | words | writing | wsj | xhtml 2:50:13 PM    comment []

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