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Google exec challenges Berners-Lee A Google executive challenged Internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee on his ideas for a Semantic Web during a conference in Boston on artificial intelligence.

Bloggers: A portrait of the internet's new storytellers
A Pew Internet study The bulk of the 12 million blogging Americans focus on their personal experiences and blog to a very small audience.
A whopping 57 million online Americans are blog readers (39% of the entire online population). 44% of bloggers have also been published elsewhere.
77% of bloggers have shared original creative content (music, images, etc.)
44% of bloggers have remixed content they found online into their own creations (mashup!)
87% of bloggers allow comments (take that comment-spam-idiots...you can't beat us!)

Libraries that use del.icio.us La Grange Park Library
Lansing Public Library - syndicates their del.icio.us feed right on their home page (along with their blog feed)!
Maui Community College Library - syndicates their feed on their “About” page, under the heading “Our Current Interests”. Sounds like a library with living, breathing human beings at work. Imagine! (note: they’re also on MySpace)
San Mateo Public Library - links organized in Dewey bundles!
Seldovia Public Library - syndicates their feed in their blog sidebar.
Thomas Ford Memorial Library - syndicates their feed on a neat little links page.