Week 6: Tagging... Technocrati Web 2.0 Lib 2.0

#13 Delicious bookmarking

It is interesting. You can have frequently used urls in delicious. When you tag using space, spaced terms occur individually. Whatever term clicked in, gets the site; eg. stock broker.

It seems to be useful tool for creating book marks that can be accessed from anywhere. And also using tags it can be a used as research tool.

#14 Technocrati

Did a search on 'learning 2.0' in Blog post, in tags and in the Blog Directory. Results were different. In Blogs 436 blogs about learning 2.0.; in blogs 'San Jose SLIS embraces Second life by Shamin occurred first; in tags it ooccurred 3rd and two more (latest) tags preceded it.

Popular Blogs: grouping [Top Favourite Blogs-Top Searches - Top Bolgs} is interesting & makes sense; however to go through them is mind-bogling.

#15 Web 2.0 and the future libraries

In the information age library users use the internet widely for varios needs. They expect to access what they need whenever they need (24/7)online; eg. e-books, ejournals, blogs, podcasts, service etc. Web users dislike physical barriers such as fix opening hours of services including the library. Library 2.0 gives opportunity the libraries to break the physical barriers and satisfy needs of the online community by giving them to participate in knowledge gathering and content creation by overcoming the 'You" the Library and "we" the patrons attitude. The Librarians need face technology challenges and should make use of them for participatory information sharing and facilitation.

Week 5

#10 Image Generators

For time-rich surfers they are useful tools; had an overview and tried the ones below:

http://www.CustomSignGenerator.com
http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/magazine.php
http://www.sloganizer.net/en/imagegenerator.php

#11 Library thing was down (13/06/07)& up again on 14th Jun.

I did add five book manually.
It is interesting to see that the Library Thing adds the book cover(s) right to the title; how many members & libraries have already go the book.

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/trier

#13 Roll you own SE

Creating an account and search roll were easy to follow. I added five sites and noticed that it would be a useful tool in adding frequently used websites/urls for the clients.

http://www.rollyo.com
http://www.rollyo.com/editroll.html?sid=296253

#8 and #9

RSS & Newsreader

Tutorial referred to in the Lreaning thing was very usefu although some steps, sites ect. did not work.

On finding feeds Blogline Search, Feedster; Topix.net applealed.

http://www.blogline.com/blog/tri-trier