It’s old news (Boing Boing and Slashdot covered it a month ago), but Flickr’s patent application is a bit troublesome. It’s not that they’re trying to patent tagging (they’re not), it’s that they’re trying to patent the things library folks have been wanting to do (and in some cases actually doing) for some time.
Media objects, [...]
Posted November 30, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: flickr, interestingness, ip, patent, ranking. Be the first one.
Danah Boyd posted about the biases of links over at Many2Many the other day. She looked for patterns in a random set of 500 blogs tracked by Technorati as well as the 100 top blogs tracked by Technorati. She found patterns in who keeps blogrolls and who is in them, as well as patterns about [...]
Posted August 10, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Blink, Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: bias, biases, blog, bloggers, blogs, gender, gender differences, google, google economy, link, linking, rank, ranking, social life of information, technorati. 3 Comments.
