My library is selling its long tail: Last Saturday, like almost every week-end, my son Kai and I went to the local library. As always we tried to score five new children's books, a goal we somehow always manage to attain :-) And when there's time and attention span left, I get to choose some books and cd's as well. That fortunately being the case, I noticed that the music department was selling part of its collection. Not junk, but truly magnificent stuff. Apparently, the...

Web 3.0, already?: I have never had any problems using the name Web 2.0. True, it’s over-hyped and stands for everything and nothing at the same time. And even more important: it incorrectly implies the existence of a Web 1.0 and the fact that there is clear and genuine rupture between them. But I have no problems using Web 2.0 because I just see it as a description of a generation of web applications, in the same way a classification of history in historical era’s is made. One may question the correc...

MyBlogLog.com brings the blogosphere together: The new ‘MyBlogLog Readers’ widget in the right column deserves an explanation. One of the aspects of the Web these ‘2.0’ days is the fact that online communities have become more fragmented and ephemere. People (readers, bloggers) assembling around a blog (or number of blogs) may form distributed communities overtime, that currently only materialize in the comments people leave in these spaces. And the majority of readers who don’t contribute (the lurkers, what a terrible word!) remain unkno...