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".