Week 6 cont.

#15 Libraries - today and tomorrow

Rick Anderson had my vote hands down. He has written many points of just what I have been thinking. He also makes a good point about making things easier for the patrons to use, rather than taking on the job of teaching them to use the search methods. His ideas of libraries no longer being the place to go to get info is just what is happening. I dont go to the library to get information and I work there!




#14 Technorati

This is amazing. I was surprised with the number of results that can be found and so that suggest that we would have to be a little bit more specific if we plan on getting relevant results.

The results I got from my search for 'Learning 2.0' were:
6984 for a search in posts and 709 blogs about it! Rather a lot for just general looking.

Week 6

#13 Del.icio.us - ness

I can definitely see the advantages of being able to access all of your bookmarks regardless of the computer you are working on. It wouldn't matter if you were looking for something at home or at work on on holidays in another country, you could still find that elusive website that you can remember using a few months ago but can't quite remember the URL. All of your sites and URLs would be in one place all the time. Very handy. But the down side of this is that I have now make an account for yet another website and have to remember the login and the password for it. Does it make any less valid if I write all these down and carry the logins and passwords around with me all the time? Or does this defeat the purpose of security?

As a research tool for an info librarian, it could be very handy. Popular items could be grouped together by tagging and then when something that is 'hot off the presses' such as the latest and last Harry Potter book, it can be used by staff as a time saving element for general searching for patrons.

Week 5 Cont.

#12 Rollyo

This is a great idea! It limits the amount of unnecesary hits that are returned when you look for something via Google and you can rely that the hits you get back will be reliable because you have chosen the source! Excellent idea! My Rollyo is for recipes. The number of times I need something simple to make for dinner or to take to visit friends and I can't find anything suitable has been numerours. I have now created a Rollyo for just that and it is found here.


#11 Library Thing

I had already become a member of LibraryThing already but hadn't been on it for quite a while and it was good to refresh it again. I, like everyone else, would be there for days just adding the titles I love to my virtual shelves so I have added a couple of the ones that are favourites.

This is the my virtual bookshlef if anyone is interested in having a look - My Book Shelf

Week 5 Online Image Generators

#10 Now this is a cack!!

I feel very self satisfied now that I have published my own novel. Well, okay decided on a cover for it. Oh alright!! just added a silly cover created by an image generator! But I had a lot of fun doing it! These are great and if you need to add an picture to something you are presenting or if you are making a flyer or pamphlet these are just the thing to create interest and catch the eye.

I found Glass Giant very easy to use. This is a link to the website I used to creat my novel cover Glassgiant

The other fun thing I found is the Harry Potter Doll Maker. See what you find at eLouai's site

Week 4 cont.

#9 Feeds Feeds Feeds.

Well I have now added a feed as an element of my blog, so if you want to find out about your horoscope you can do so here. I found it a bit difficult to find a suitable one on Feedster owever, I found my feed from the Google Blog Search. The search engines for these things are fantastic and if you are really into the whole RSS thing then these search engines are the best way to find things that you want to add to your blog orjust include in your list of feeds for your own personal use.