Daily Archives: December 1, 2008

Canceling old accounts

By Michael Becker | Published: December 1, 2008
I signed up for my Hotmail account in 1998, back when the free Web-based mail ser­vice was rel­a­tively new. The ser­vice had just been pur­chased by Microsoft when I signed up for it, and Microsoft hadn’t yet rebranded Hotmail to make it into MSN Anything or MSN Live Anything-else. It was just Hotmail. It had [...]
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Philosophy and folksonomy

By Michael Becker | Published: December 1, 2008
A post on David Weinberger’s blog turned me on to an arti­cle by Elaine Peterson called “Beneath the Metadata” that was pub­lished in the November 2006 D-Lib magazine. I took note for two rea­sons. First, Peterson works on my cam­pus at the Renne Library. This means that, even though the arti­cle is two years old, I [...]
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