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I am a retired librarian, most recently serving at Indiana Wesleyan University's Cleveland Education Center.

Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Mahalo

www.mahalo.com is a search tool created by human "guides" who index articles on a wide variety of topics. Any Mahalo user can recommend the best website for a topic (I suggested www.indwes.edu for Indiana Wesleyan): however, an article on a topic needs to be authored by a guide and then reviewed by at least one editor. This results in a tool that has characteristics of Wikipedia and The Open Directory Project. A nice blog entry with a user's view of Mahalo's strengths and weaknesses is Mahalo: A Powerful Tool In the Right Hands.
-D.D.

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