Sébastien Paquet

Sébastien Paquet is a Canadian academic, researcher, and blogger best known for his work on the Internet Topic Exchange [S. Paquet et P. Pearson, "A Topic Sharing Infrastructure for Weblog Networks". Proceedings of the Communication Networks and Services Research (CNSR) 2004, IEEE Computer Society Press. ] with Phillip Pearson, a precursor to modern-day tags and folksonomies, as well as his social software blog [http://many.corante.com/ many-to-many] , cohosted with Clay Shirky, Ross Mayfield, David Weinberger, and Danah Boyd.

Paquet earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2003 from the University of Montreal, his thesis title was "A Socio-Technological Approach to Sharing Knowledge Across Disciplines". After his Ph.D., he joined the National Research Council of Canada where he worked with Stephen Downes before joining SocialText for a year in 2005.

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* [http://flickr.com/photos/sfllaw/275939179/ Picture of Paquet on flickr]
* [http://many.corante.com/ Many-to-many] - a group blog cofounded by Paquet
* [http://radio.weblogs.com/0110772/ Seb's Open Research] - Paquet's blog