ACL Learning 2.0 PBWiki week 7

I have added my blog to the PBwiki Learning 2.0 ! I have added some of my fave music to the favourite music part ! And also some of my fave movies, added to the appropriate place. This is a great way to see what sorts of things my fellow bloggers are in to. It was extremely easy to use - long gone are the days when the word (?) html would make me run a mile.. I have learned so much doing this ACL Leraning 2.0 stuff, good fun too !

ACL Learning 2.0 wikis (week 7)

I can see how wikis can be very useful, but the fact that the advantage (anyone being able to add/edit content) is also a disadvantage surely makes the accuracy of the information a bit of a problem area..

I often use wikipedia to find out about things, but would never trust its information as being valid - I always confirm with another source. So if I am researching something important I would bypass wikipedia and go straight to a reputable source. But as an interactive message board I think wikis are great. I think wikis would be useful in our library when we are trying new technologies (eg the fast lane checkouts,new databases,pharos) where we can identify problems and record solutions and updates when they happen.

Library 2.0 week 6

I completely agree with Michael Stephens in that it is increasingly important for library users to be able to access their library easily from wherever they are (eg from home,work). With our library,our website can be accessed from a computer anywhere and even from a mobile phone. I am very much anti-technology "for the sake of new technology" and I like Stephens emphasis on being sure new technology is most useful for library users and that it creates a "useful service" (rather than being just fancy new technology).

I think John J. Riemer's ideas of incorporating popular aspects of google and amazon into library services are excellent. This phenomenon of casual "tagging" (which I am getting my head around) is just going to get bigger and more relevant to the way we search for things online.

I think the potential for growth and change in libraries is very exciting.

Technorati week 6

I found this one a bit confusing.. I am currently trying to claim my blog and have been waiting for about 8mins while the technorati monster looks for it !

From what I gather,if you search blog posts this will just look for keywords within the blogs. If you search tags this will bring up blogs on a similar subject (ie.they have been "tagged" the same). If you search the blog directory you will find blogs with your search terms in the title of the blogs..

Still waiting on the technorati monster..

I like that you can easily see the most popular blogs and searches!

del.icio.us ACL Week 6

well this is quite fun.. Essentially,delicious enables you to make and store a list of bookmarks that you can access through the http://del.icio.us/ site.. The sites are all "tagged" under different categories,so it is easy to go from one site/subject to a similar site/subject. I like that the tags are very casual - not under strict subjects like the aucklandcitylibraries catalogue subject search.

Personally I am not at the stage where my bookmarks are getting hard to find - but I will most definitely tell my partner about delicious, he has bookmarks coming out of his ears and I think he will find this very useful.

From a research perspective, I think this method of tagging would be very helpful. Because delicious is completely open to the public it is easy to link to sites others have found useful on a particular subject.

:-)