It's not too late to register for the Georgia Conference on Information Literacy!  Our third annual conference will be held at the Coastal Georgia Center in the historic district in Savannah, Georgia, October 6-7, 2006.  Register by September 18, 2006, for reduced fee.

For more information, see http://ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/conted/infolit.html, or email Janice Walker at jwalker@georgiasouthern.edu.

There is some good advice in this piece on Wired News about best practices for tagging posts. My favorite is

"Utilize the KISS (keep it simple, stupid) system," D'Agostino added. "Don't try and tag a bookmark with the first 20 tags that come to mind."

To me, posts which have 8, 10, 15 tags are less useful because they attempt to tag every concept that might be in a post rather than providing the most relevant.

Meanwhile, please take a look at this and the rest of the advice if you post regularly to Kairosnews. I'm hoping that in the spring we can move to a free tagging system here on Kairosnews. Would it be worthwhile to discuss this advice and begin describing our own best practice ideas?

Clay Shirky's weighed in on the freetagging vs structured taxonomies debate:

I, on the other hand, am of the unreasonable view that classification schemes are going to be largely displaced by tagging for the same reasons that search has largely displaced directories for finding things, namely that distributed intelligence, for all its faults, tends to beat the work of a professional class when dealing with large, dynamic systems.

See the rest of his post on You’re It! a blog on tagging. Notably, Shirky categorized his post under "uncategorized" :)

Hi everyone. I'm happy to announce the grand re-opening of CCC Online. I've posted a longer, semi-formal announcement and description of the site over at my blog, but thought I'd post a quick announcement here as well.

What we've done is to turn CCCO into a site for the management of that journal's metadata. The content itself (i.e., articles) is still password-protected over at NCTE, but CCCO provides abstracts, keywords, bibliographies, et al. We're using Movable Type and del.icio.us to make as much of the journal accessible to searches, bookmarking, tagging, and research as possible, and we're pretty pleased with the results. It's only one journal, and we've still got a ways to go in terms of adding back issues, but there's enough up there now for you to see some of the potential of the site.

Please feel free to take the site for a spin, and to let us know what you think, either through blog comments or over email. Thanks!

cgb