Week 9 (#21)

Podcasts: Well I found these quite confusing and rather boring. I looked at Podcast.net first and found this site dull and hard to find anything interesting. Most of the podcast i found were old and out of date. Podcastalley was the better site and I couldn't make head nor tail out of Yahoo podcast. On podcastalley I found the Onion Radio News, which seems to be popular site, which contains unusual and weird news items. I have added the Onion News to my bloglines as well.

Week 9 (#20) You tube

I found You Tube interesting to look at and I can see understand why people spend hours looking at it. I wanted something cute and relavant, and as christmas is nearly upon us, and I really like the muppets, I thought this was appropriate.

My blog from Zoho!!!

Well here I am in Zoho! This seems to be a very good site for people who do not have Word or if they use different computers in the course of their work and need to get to the same information. It saves the need to carry USB's or discs with the information on. But that would mean that every computer would have access to the internet.

I know that would be unusual these days, but hey, it could happen. Therefore you still may need to carry backup. Overall I think the Zoho site is really good.

P.S really like the emotions icons!!!

Week 8 (#'s 18 & 19)

I have published my blog for #18 from Zoho and I found this a really easy process.

Web 2.0 Awards has absolutely so much to explore that I didn't really know where to start. I had a brief look a few sites before I settled into Google Maps. I love to look at where I live and all over the place with the satalite version. It is really interesting to see the view from above. My only wish is that I could make the map enlarge to the whole page. I also looked at the Cocktail builder site, that gave you interesting random cocktail receipies. Had a quick look at a couple of others as well. All in all I could have spent a lot of time looking and may go back to this site later.

Week 7 (#'s 16 & 17)

Wiki's are a wonderful idea! I like the Princeton Libraries booklovers site and think it would be a great idea for us to have a site that the public could put there own reviews, and for us to be able to direct them when looking for some recommendations. I think it would be a good idea to have a place where community groups could add and update there own information. As now we have C.I.T.Y. to find the information but wouldn't it be great if the groups could update there own information and add snippets of information, eg fund raising events, galas, open days etc. These are two ideas that I think would work well for us.


I have just added my link to Favourite Blogs and it was a really easy thing to do.
I added two items, one to Favourite Books and one to Favourite Websites, which was looking pretty lonely with not one website added to it. For my favourite book, which is actually a series of books I even managed to add a link, which is something I wouldn't have been able to do a few weeks ago. So thank you for this program which is actually teaching me something!!!

Week 6 (#'s 13, 14 & 15)

Del.icio.us, to me, does not have a very appealing home page, though it seems to have everything you need and seems to have clear instructions on how to sign up etc. It would be good for people who use the internet and certain websites regularly and for this reason I can understand and see its usefulness. Probably a good tool for people who do a lot of research, or students or teachers that would regularly look up up sites on certain subjects, and for those people who use different computers on a regular basis. I have the few websites that I visit regularly on my 'favorites' and that is good enough for me and my limited use of the internet.

Technorati makes you realise just how many people there are out there with nothing better to do than blog. I found when I searched "Learning 2.0" there were about 5x as many results for keywords than with tags. The perfect sentence to sum up what I think is that:
'People seem to write everything about nothing and nothing about everything"

As for Library 2.0 I think it basically is a great concept allowing people, other than us librarians, to contribute to our gathering of information, and with our busy lifestyles these days being able to access said information from wherever you are; work, home, school etc is essential. I think libraries still have to be a physical space for those of us who love to have a book in hand and have face to face contact with other people but it also needs to grow with the times and be a cyberspace as well. I think the following quote says it all - "The only constant since the beginning of time is change".