If you look at the top of my newly-redesigned blog, you’ll notice several “tabs” that you can click — each of which will take you to a separate page on the blog. One is the standard “home” page, and another is an “about” page that tells you what a wonderful person I am. But I now have the ability to create as many new tabbed pages as I want, and I just added the first one this evening: a new page containing a list of recommended Web 2.0 books.

A subset of recommended books, along with a thumbnail picture of the cover, also appears on the main blog page; but I expect that the list will eventually grow rather long, and I wanted a place to make them all readily accessible. Notwithstanding David Weinberger’s eloquent argument (in his wonderful new Web 2.0 book, Everything is Miscellaneous) that all traditional ordering schemes — e.g., alphabetical by author, or categorized by topic using a Dewey Decimal System approach — are entirely arbitrary, and largely unnecessary in today’s digital world, I nevertheless made this list alphabetical by author.

I intend to have another page, consisting of “cool books” that don’t necessarily have anything to do with Web 2.0, but are still recommended. It may take a while to get this started, so please be patient.

Beyond that, I’m not sure what additional tabbed pages will make sense. My colleagues at dataLAB have suggested a page with links to my Web 2.0 mind-maps; and perhaps I should have a page with links to various presentations and Powerpoint files that I’ve made available from time to time. If you have any other suggestions, please let me know.