RedEsColombia is an online platform that offers a space where Colombians around the world, and everyone one else interested in the country can interact, and share ideas. Ultimately the network hopes that these interactions will help bring about new ideas, and development for the country.
You do have to register to get the full benefit of [...]

For the 20th anniversary after the fall of the Berlin Wall, The Guardian has gathered a number of online projects reflecting its history and present.

Videos  documenting the Wall’s history (The Guardian)
Photographs submitted by readers (The New York Times)
Interactive map tracing bits and pieces of the actual wall (BBC)
Berlin Twitter Wall (Twitter)
The Berlin Project
Mauer Mob (Performance [...]

Radical Cataloging: Essays at the Front by K. R. Roberto
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
The collection of essays in Radical Cataloging cover a wide range of issue in the cataloging world, and it’s not the boring book most non-catalogers might assume it is – but be warned that unless you already understand LCSH, NAR, [...]

With some financial help from the National Endowment for the Humanities, digital-humanities professor Mary Flanagan is developing a game that will help add tags to some of Dartmouth College’s archival collections. Flanagan expects that students will be interested in the game which presents a player with an image for which they have to create “labels” [...]

Have a challenging question no one seems to have an answer for? Try Project Wombat, a discussion list for difficult reference questions.
The project has three different versions, with the only difference being the level of moderation. You can look though their archives to get a sense of what others ask, and how their questions were [...]

Over the weekend I heard this interesting story on NPR’s “On The Media” about a new tool that will help you get a more balance view of complex stories. Dispute Finder is an added toolbar that will present you with alternative viewpoints to those expressed throughout the web.
Basically after downloading the program you visit a [...]

There is a great collection on Flickr of photographs from the battle at Normandie. The collection includes close to 3,000 images documenting the event; information and tags for this collection are all in French.
This was a project led by Conseil Régional de Basse-Normandie (Regional Council of Basse-Normandie) in 2004, for the D-Day 60th anniversary. The [...]

Google just announced on its blog that they are developing a new tool which aims at integrating email, live chat, photos, videos, maps, feeds, gadgets, and more! The idea is to centralize communication, but also to make collaboration easier.
Right now the project is still being developed, but they are looking for techy people who can [...]

Addict-o-matic is a clever page that instantly builds you a customs made page displaying results in a variety of formats on your topic of interest. Depending on the topic you may get results from paid websites, blogs, newspapers, youtube, or any number of other sources.
You can also just click on some of the already made [...]

Now that most of us have so many online accounts I was wondering what happens to these when we pass away or become incapacitaded; NPR just answered me questions. Last Monday Omar Gallaga, of All Tech Considered ran an entire show on these issues. For instance the show explained that different email providers treat your [...]