Thing 15 - Web 2.0 & Library 2.0

Web 2.0 and Library 2.0 both sound good to me in theory. Of course Web 2.0 was being tossed around in the late 1990’s in research circles with all of the work on usability studies. The Librarians Anti – 2.0Manifesto sounds like a transcript of the Andy Rooney segment of “60 Minutes”. It’s OK for a little while but much longer and it sounds whiney! Of course it seems to me that Queens Library is far along in the transition to Library 2.0

Thing 14 - Technorati

When I entered Learning 2.0 in the Technorati search engine and the results came up I got so involved in reading the various posts and following threads that I had to remind myself to get back to the task at hand. The results I got were:
Searching by Blog Posts (all Blogs) – 2217
Searching by Tag – 727
Searching in the Blog Directory 831.
I noticed there is an Authority rating, I have to go back and try to understand what this is and how it is derived.

Thing 13 - Del.icio.us Tagging

Informally Del.icio.us sounds great. The idea of accessing my bookmarks from any PC is something that would be very helpful to me. I’m already familiar with tagging from other fields but I’ve always found the issue to be that you need some authority control so that you don’t end up with three similar but different tags. I have set up my own del.icio.us account and have started moving my bookmarks over. When I have more time I’ll look at importing and exporting them.

Thing 12 - Rollyo

What is a Rollyo ? A Custom Search Engine for the web. I created a Rollyo account for books I might want to look up in Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com and Strandbooks.com. I then tried searching for a book called Free for all. Rollyo returned 106,000,000 results. This is when I found out that in addition to the three sites I set up it was also searching the entire web. I’m not sure why it does this since it is supposed to make it easy to search my specific web sites. Anyway, when I tried another book called Weird England, I had more success with 455 results returned and the most relevant being brought to the forefront. I’m not sure I like to service and that I’ll continue to use it but it’s nice to know it exists.

Thing 11 - Library Thing

Although I created a Library Thing account weeks ago I didn’t post a link so here it is:

London Walks

Thing 10 -Image Generators

How much time do I have left to complete these tasks ?



This Image was created with the Generator Blog

Oh Well it’s week whatever and Thing # 23 has been posted on the Library Learning 2.0 Blog and I have to go back and catch up. Well here goes. Although I may not do them in exact order I will complete all the things including the supplemental halvesJ

Thing 3

In reviewing the 3^rd thing I note that I haven’t posted the hardest and easiest learning habit. Well the easiest for me is Confidence in my learning ability. I have continued to learn about new and exciting things during my career. (Unfortunately Technology wasn’t one of them.) For example deciding to change careers and join Librarianship after many years in another industry has opened up many new horizons for me. Probably the hardest challenge was keeping the end in mind. Sometimes I have trouble deciding what the end should look like.

Thing 5

Posting a link to my Flickr pictures.

These are some of the sites in london from my most recent trip (2/2007)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/14984374@N03/

Thing 6 – Mashups

Since the assignment was to explore mashups and write about one I first had to understand what they were. The Wikipedia articles were very helpful.

The mashup I chose to explore was FLIGHTWAIT ( www.flightwait.com ) which graphically displays the flight delays out of airports across the country. I thought this was great and I will be reviewing it the next time I travel domestically.

Thing 7 – Previously Posted

Thing 8 – Create a Bloglines Account

Creating the account was easy. But again first I had to “Read all about It” since I wasn’t sure what it was or how it could be useful. Of course once you know what it is you easily see how useful it can be.

Thing 9 – RSS Feeds

For the purposes of this exercise I selected two feeds add to my Bloglines Account. First is the BBC News site because of my interest in all things British and the second was engadget to further my goal of trying to keep up with new technology. Each of these serves my goals and I now check my bloglines account almost daily.