Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Technorati

Once again, the hardest part is coming up with a user name. Now, in order to claim it, I have to put a bit of code in a post. Technorati Profile. And now that that's done, I did a search for learning 2.0. The results treated the search as two different terms, so I put them in quotation marks. That got closer to what I want, but a surprising number of hits on the first page were not in English. Interesting. Ahhhh, limiting to searching tags and blogs got me much closer to what I was after. Always a challenge to figure out exactly what strategy works best where.

Library Thing, Part II

Ah, Library Thing is up! I put a few things in. I notice that the only status categories available are "Currently Reading" and "To Read." A pity I can't have finished them, but there you go. As instructed, here's the link. My Library Thing.

Wiki

I liked the SJCPL wiki. It's like web picks on steroids. There's clearly a lot that libraries can do with wikis. Book reviews, subject guides, how to do its. Bull Run looks like it uses as wiki as a way to publicize events. These things can all be done other ways, of course. It's a matter of what works best for a particular library. If a wiki works best, then go for it! And if a more traditional approach works best, use that.

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Library/Web 2.0 Perspectives

I found the perscpectives interesting. Technolust-- the desire to go with something that's shiny and new because it's shiny and new -- is a tempting enemy which must be fought. I thought Wendy Schultz's Library 4.0 looked a lot like Library 1.5 -- that place between commodity and product with comfy chairs and task lighting.
So, what's the best way to stay with the 2.0 ball? Chase after it, and you're always behind. Get ahead of it, and it could suddenly curve or hit you in the head. Never take your eyes off it and you risk running into a tree. What's the tree? Dunno. But I'm sure it's there.

Technorati

Apparently, the Technorati monster has escaped, so I haven't been able to explore it.

Friday, May 8, 2009

Delicious

I really like Delicious. Took me waaay to long to explore it after I knew about it. I have a surprising number of URLs memorized and can search pretty well, but there's nothing like having your favorites available. Professionally, I can have my favorite reference sites available to me no matter which branch -- or computer station -- I'm working at.

LibraryThing

Sure, I finally add a book to LibraryThing and they're down. Oh well. I'll look at it again later. There's plenty of other Learning 2.0 to do.