[Sitting around since last year…]<\/p>\n
Bambou<\/a> (French) writes about Wikimini<\/a>, a Wikipedia-like project written by kids for kids: 8-13 years old. It was conceived by a teacher as a pedagogical tool.<\/p>\n Penser le futur (French) writes about the ease of amending incorrect data on Amazon<\/a> – [not quite as immediate as Wikipedia perhaps, but] it only took clicking a button, adding details, and waiting while Amazon verified it – a few days later Amazon even sent an email explaining why some of the changes had been accepted and others left alone.<\/p>\n Frank den Hollander<\/a> (Dutch) points to the experimental PurpleSearch<\/a> (English) at the University of Groningen. PurpleSearch is a federated search engine that doesn’t require users to select which databases to search – instead it parses the search keywords to guesstimate at which will give the best results.<\/p>\n And if you’re interested in non-English blog posts you may be interested in LibWorld – library blogs worldwide<\/a>, a book version of the essays on InfoBib<\/a>.<\/p>\n [More recently…]<\/p>\n Vagabondages (French) lists French and francophone library twitter accounts<\/a> and Biblioroots lists accounts for librarians, bibliobloggers, authors, editors, booksellers<\/a> and more librarians as well as general information and technology accounts<\/a>.<\/p>\n