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Jessamyn West is a community technology librarian and a moderator of the massive group blog MetaFilter.com. She lives in a rural area of Central Vermont where she teaches basic computer[…]

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Jessamyn West talks about traveling the country helping users utilize the full potential of Web 2.0.

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