Week 10: Tags (Stickin' It to the Man)

Well, well, well. Tagging is so relevant to library services it's readiculous. We all know a library is information organized for use and that is what tagging is "good fer". Although The Cootess must admit She tends to use tags, not for efficiency, but to be all cute. But Booby (sic and sick and it stays) del Libro is on to sumpin': let's use these suckas to finally take down that old, dead man-cootess M. Dewey. (A) That dude's turn 'o da century nonsense is totally stale (B) When it come to reigning cootesses, there can be only one. We all know this is going to end with Me and Kanye in the ring, so let's just fast forward, shall we? Let's move this into Webrary 3.0. Too late, already happened. So The Cootess, Bobby and Effie Reader were all working in the salt mines/reference office, our backs to one another as we blog and comment and email away, when Bobby says, "Cootess, I just sent you an email about my blog. You can twitter me what you think." That's when we all slowly turned around and Effie Reader said,"OMG, we just busted through to 3.0." Anyhoodle, all I'm saying is The Cootess West is designing overpriced, ugly space alien tennie-pumps for Louis Vuitton. The least we can do is get delicious with ourselves.

Qutoable Quote:

"The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on."

--Melvil Dewey (but you know Kanye's thinking it)

Pod+Casting=Male Cootess Sour Grapes

Hey cootlings, remember veejay Adam Curry from "Headbangers Ball" on MTV? Wow, you are sooo old. Anyhoo, it turns out that under those flowing flaxen locks resides the soul of a true computer geekin' entrepreneur. That's right, mister man has been fiddling around on the net since the days of Gopher. Remember Gopher? Dang, I told you you're old. It was he who registered mtv.com and established MTV's presence on a little thing I like to call "the web". But he didn't stop there, oh no, and this is where he links up with a little thing I like to call "Library 2.0": that dude who interviewed an only partially surgically enhanced Michael Jackson is one of the dudes who had a major hand in developing a little thing I like to call "podcasting". Here's where things get interesting to The Cootess. So Monsieur Curry goes on Wikipedia and seemingly overstates his role in the invention of podcasting, not giving proper props to the work of other dudes in the course of development and giving absolutely no cred to Al Gore for inventing the internet or Kanye West for inventing everything else. So Wikipedia calls him out and Adam is all, I apologise. I didn't know the full history, and Wikipedia is all, That's O.K. We all make mistakes. Now, keep in mind I am reading about this whole thing ON Wikipedia a couple days ago. I go on Wikipedia this morning and all traces of the "Controversy" article about Adam Curry has been expunged. I know, I know, the layers upon layers of Web 2.0 intrigue are blowing my mind too. I have to say I heart the human drama of 2.0. That is totally what 1.0-1.5 was missing. More importantly, I think we have all learned a valuable lesson here: Never ignore Kanye West!

Quotable Quote:

"For people that dress super-good, this is the music that we listen to. If you don't like it, you probably can't dress that good." --thus spake the Great Cootess Kanye