wanderingstan

Lately I and my family have been doing a lot of archiving. My Dad at last count had scanned 13,437 photos, letters, postcards, and mementos. Some of them go back to the 1890’s.

I need to write a full post about that project (and how there are no good tools for it, and my fears about Facebook and archiving…), but in the meantime here are some deliciously outrageous scans from two German 1973 mail-order catalogs. I found them years ago in the basement and have kept them as a little treasure to pull out when design/fashion-savvy guests are over.

The full set is viewable on Flickr.

All 49 scans available on Flickr…

This post brought to you live from the Web 2.0 Kongress in Offenbach, Germany. I’m told that my talk went well, though I was far too jet lagged to notice.

I was speaking about folksonomies, and the potential for social networking to save them from the fate of Usenet.

Thanks again to Andreas Weigend for the invitation to speak here.

More photos, and still more photos.

Presentation in Powerpoint, Presentation in PDF.

I’ll be speaking about “trust and folksonomy” at the Web 2.0 Kongress in Offenbach, Germany on October 10. (See program and speaker bios.)

If you are going to be there, please drop me a line and we should meet. I’m looking forward to being back in Deutschland where this whole Lijit/Outfoxed thing germinated (ha!) so many months ago.