Tagging and Del.icio.us Thing #14

The resource that was most use to me in learning about Del.icio.us was the Us.ef.ul guide to Del.icio.us but the name is still a problem for me. Delicious is associated with food!
It bugged me to know I had to install the Yahoo home page as a search default in order to get the Del.icio.us shortcut. My anti-virus software detected it immediately. However, it now sits in my browser options and is useful for this exercise.
Having a explored several websites to add to the Del.icio.us bookmarking facility I added several to my account. I explored tagging and agree that it is good to have the freedom to use a TAG that is not restricted by controlled vocabularies. I was able to edit my tags.
I believe this is a resource we could successfully use as research librarians in our work. I look forward to digressing through the tags to see what my colleagues are using for work topics.

Technorati Thing #14

Technorati is for the youth of today's society. Why? The most popular posts are on current music, movies and the marketing of commercially available products.

The most fun I had was on YouTube, checking out the blogs, videos and pictures, following my interests, and escaping off on tag tangents.

I found very few posts on "Learning 2.0" in blogs or in hosted sites under Technorati. However, I did come across the original organiser awarding a prize (a laptop) to a winner in the "Learning 23 Things" competition in October 2006 in USA. Once I used tags I managed to see a couple of individual comments in blogs.

Does this have a use in our special library situation? I think not. It may have more application in public libraries.

TechnoratiThing #14

Technorati is for the youth of today's society! Why? The most common hits are on music, movies, and marketing for commercially available products.
I had most fun with YouTube - blogs, videos, photos (went to Flickr!). There were very few hits on "Learning 2.o" in blog posts or hosted favourite sites, but I did find out there had been a competition in USA, a laptop prize had been awarded in Oct 2006.
Better results for my exploration came from searching on tags - "technology innovation information" and this led to some individual comments.
Is this useful for our special library work? I think not. Perhaps it has a role for public libraries.

Library 2.0

Having time, I read all articles. The momentum built up to a crescendo in the Schulz article. But lest I forget some of the messages I record them here:

1. Anderson advised againt teh just in case collection, reliance on user education, and the come to us library model.
2. Stephens outlined the skills of the librarian 2.0 - plans for their users, embraces Web 2.o tools, controls technolust, makes good, fast decsions (use biblioblogosphere), is a trendspotter, and gets content
3. Nilges advises on more powerful ways to cooperate: build new services with Web 2.0 technologies, touch the entire web, collect user intelligence, release lightweight services, and build better data "data is the next Intel inside".
4. Riemer urges better bibliographic services: expose expand extend metadata using web 2.0, package and push metadata, broaden relevance ranking, adopt Web 2.0 features, expand delivery, and streamline metadata creation.
5. Schulz dreams of a future place in society of the library concept, comparing a life of coffee, from coffee beans, to sale of the product, to the marketing of the product, to the serving of the drink, and the total environment of the experience of the coffee drink. She compares it to Library 1.0 - commodity, Library 2.0 - Product, Library 3.0 - service, Library 4.0 - experience. This is a superb concept to explain the evolution of the Library, the ripple effect. We are just continuing on the journey.

Rollyo

Having ventured into this product I did not find it as interesting as expected. Was this because of my work-related choice and interest in taxes, as it wasn't a play thing! I set up a Rollyo in an interest area of mine but still found sources to be the commonly known ones. I'll leave this to my talented colleagues who will explore it better than I. Or try another esoteric interest area of music! Perhaps I'm just hungry and need to eat!

Images

At last! A useful product for librarians - LibraryThing. Most useful for public librarians, and novel or fiction readers, book lovers and book groups. It is dominated by US sources, references and statistics. I created my library catalogue of a few favourite fiction titles and have attached the link below.

http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=uam5oo&shelf=list

Visual Poetry

Exploring Generator blog I played with a few images, diverting to various online image generators, but enjoyed Visual Poetry. This technology is for esoteric and hedonistic fun, but there's not much source material for librarians, do you agree?

Thing #7 RSS

There's a myriad of blog RSS feeds out there. I ticked a few obtuse interests to see what would come up, and was interested to notice that the one that held my attention most was for professional librarians. It shows where I'm grounded, hey?
I love reading modern fiction and can even support this recommendation.
Oprah's Book Club: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Jeffrey Eugenides' first novel, The Virgin Suicides, was translated into fifteen languages and made into a feature film. Middlesex, published in 2002, met with similar acclaim. In fact, it won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2003. Now that Oprah is on board, Jeffrey Eugenide's Middlesex can expect to reach new heights in popularity.
Read the book review of Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides.
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The greeting card I made was susccessfully sent to my email - yee-ha! However, it was smothered in advertising. I am not impressed.

My photo is of albino salmon I took on a recent holiday.

Thing #5 Flickr

Technology evades me in trying out this very visual medium, Flickr. It's best for very pretty pictures. So too does anything related to content for work, but I did enjoy creating my own Flickr account, uploading photos and trying to create a greeting card.

Thing #2

Registration completed.
Content hunted down.

Thing #1

A late start, but nevertheless, a start. A new beginning. Let the journey begin.