Week 6 - Tagging, folksomonies & social bookmarking in Del.icio.us

Today I joined Delicious, I book-marked a bunch of sites that I like as well as some that I found through searching the popular tags section in delicious. Delicious seems like quite a good research tool, though in terms of finding information from information (or linking) I still prefer to read an article or something and get a link from that as opposed to looking through tags on Delicous. Delicious would defintely be very helpful though if you were travelling and using different computers and you wanted to save your bookmarks.

I also joined up to technorati, and claimed my blog. I searched "learning 2.0" in the tags section, and the blogs section. It was quite surprising that I didn't find many blogs about this. This site seems very amerocentric, all the most popular posts seem to be american.

I read some of the articles about Library 2.0. Personally, most of the ideas surrounding library 2.0 sound sensible and practicle considering the way people are constantly evolving with their use of technology and the way they get information. Libraries can either sink or swim.

Week 5 - Searching and Cataloguing

Today I joined Library Thing (see some books from my catalogue below). It seemed like a good website - I particularly liked the local tab or section. I thought this would be especially good if you were travelling and wanted to find out if there were any literary events happening in the town you were in. It would also be a good way for Auckland City Libraries to promote their events.

Week 4 - RSS Feeds and Twitter

Today I explored RSS feeds. I set up a blog-lines account and subscribed to a number of feeds, some of which were blogs like "Scooper" on the Auckland City Libraries website. I thought this would be a good way to keep up with the latest news in the developement of libraries. I was a bit dissapointed to find that some of my favourite blogs didn't have a subscription option, for example, Simon Reynolds music blog, Blissed Out. I thought RSS feeds would be a good way to deliver library news, or could replace traditional news-letters. For example library patrons could subscribe to the "library news-letter blog" to keep up with the latest news at their local library.

Twitter

I joined Twitter today as well and added as people I follow a few bands and artists that I like as well as the National Library. I am fine about using flicker to follow institutions or public enterprises but I don't like the idea of using it for my personal life. It seems like an invasion of privacy, as does the way it collates information and trends. I like a bit of mystery.

Here is a link to my twitter page http://twitter.com/butterpeanut1