Let's talk about Ravelry, my new favorite website. The only thing I don't like about it is that nonmembers can't see much, so here's a link to some screenshots (scroll down a little).

Today's New York Times article about software and services for inventorying wine collections reminded me of a project that I did last quarter in a class on Information Architecture. Students identified and analyzed new website genres, and one of the genres I chose to discuss was what I called inventory sites. These sites allow users to create useful electronic representations of their belongings in the physical world--and in this way, they have a lot in common with library catalogs.