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REMINDER: There’s two interesting Genealogy Research groups at Diigo. First, there’s the Genealogy Research Resources group which catalogs data sites like archives and libraries. This group has a significant collection of useful sites. Then there’s the Genealogy Research Support group for links to how-to articles and videos, software vendors and reviews. Anyone can take advantage of these resources and if you’d like to add to the collection, all it takes is a free Diigo account.

One aspect that characterises the new web is the increasing capacity to annotate or edit socially written texts - through wikis or collaborative projects, such as those referenced in Mark Marina’s ‘Marginalia in the library of babel‘ project. Diigo software adds a further dimension to social bookmarking: If social bookmarking allows us to share our library catalogs, social annotation sites allow us to share our libraries complete with their underlinings, highlights, and marginalia.

Web2 has been with us for some time increasing possibilities for social transparency transforming notions of privacy and ownership into a new form of social space and cultural intimacy. This is beautifully illustrated by the short video Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us by Michael Wesch