links for 2007-05-03

• » Please, Not Another Wiki
  (tags: wiki libraries in:maissonb)
• Carmun – Students of the World Unite!
  rate sources, create bibliographies, etc
  (tags: social bookmarks networking collaboration education tools academic)
• Crossing Boundaries: Identity Management and Student/Faculty Relationships on the Facebook
  “We found that contact on Facebook had no impact on students’ ratings of professors. We found it striking that one third of the students we surveyed did not believe that faculty should be present on the Facebook at all.”
  (tags: facebook education article)
• Joho the Blog: [berkman] Social networking and medicine
  “Tony Ferraro and David Stone are giving a Berkman lunchtime talk on on “Applications of Social Networking Technology to Medical Treatment.” They’re talking about applying social networking to victims of trauma and torture”
  (tags: social networking medicine in:joho)
• The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines, April 2007
  “And now for the month of April, I am pleased to present the Search Engine of the Month – younanimous! Or, as it has become, AfterVote!”
  (tags: directories search tools in:readwrite)
• Annoyed Librarian: Not Enough Criticism
  “Librarians, including academic librarians, in general don’t seem to have developed the critical and reflective habit typical of academics” – read the comments, also
  (tags: academic libraries blogs criticism collegiality in:annoyed-lib)
• MEDgle « Musings of a Medical Librarian Maven
  “I was put off by MEDgle. It seems to be okay for common, run of the mill symptom combinations but that’s about it”
  (tags: consumer health medgle review in:alexia)
• Metacrap and Flickr Tags: An Interview with Cory Doctorow
  “David and Cory discuss the advantages and pitfalls of explicit and implicit metadata, tags and the rules governing the use and re-use of content in commerce and culture.”
  (tags: audio folksonomy tagging metadata in:wired)
• Good at Reviewing Books But Not Each Other (Steven Bell)
  “Perhaps what the library profession needs to do, if it wants to be taken seriously as a science, is to realize that we need to be accepting of rigorous discourse.”
  (tags: librarians libraries blogs criticism collegiality in:insidehed)
• Social mechanisms of the Digg user revolt
  “What happened yesterday on Digg is not out of the blue. Diggers used the very social mechanics that the site has given them, and turned it against Digg. It was a strong, concentrated user reaction, very typical of Digg – turned inwards”
  (tags: digg gaming censorship communities collectiveintelligence in:rashmi)