#14 Technorati

I've had a look around Technorati using "learning 2.0" as the search term and it's interesting to compare the number of hits you get under blogs, tags and blog posts. Tags obviously narrows the field but there is still some superflous material getting through. Looking at the topics listed under search terms and tags and the most popular sites I wonder if technorati or similar search facilities could ever replace dewey and subject headings. I think at this stage the search results are still too broad and our current way of cataloguing does by and large yield a better hit rate. Who knows though what may happen in the future particularly with more and more people using on line catalogues.

#13 Del.icio.us

had a look at the PLCMCL2 account and I can see that it would be a useful tool to bookmark favourites when you use different computers. eg work and home or, as we often do, different computers over several libraries at work, depending on where you are working for the day. I can also see that peering into someone elses bookmarks and following the trail they have set up to useful sites would be helpful for students or anyone who has a particular passion or hobby. Sorting out the garbage from the gems may be difficult but I guess that's true of any internet searching and maybe it helps that someone has done at least some of the work for you first.

#12 Rollyo

Well I've ceated a rollyo account and made a list of Tassie destinations as I'm off to Tassie in November and thought this would be a good way to pull some of the sites we've searched together. Mind you it feels a bit like a glorified favourites list so I'm not sure how much more useful it is than this given that you can create folders in favourites for relevent sites just as easily. It looks prettier in the finished product. Can see it might be useful for students doing research to pull together useful sites on a particular topic. I've added it at the bottom of the blog and this is the link.
http://rollyo.com/editroll.html?sid=320757

Week 5 #11 Librarything

I can see this is a fun way to catalogue not only your own books but books in a library too. Interesting to see how many other people have added the same book as you to their catalogue. Jackets of books are always appealing and though we shouldn't judge a book by it's cover it always helps! Spydus now displays book covers which is a great tool too.
Here's the link to my small lot of books. I could add more but there's always something else to do
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/ritafellows

#6 More flickr fun

Opps forget to put in the post that I had looked at some of these sites and liked Librarian trading card - good way to create a different view of librarians perhaps we can trade like we used to with swap cards - opens up lots of possibilities.

my image generator Week 5 #10

Found this on generator blog and as a Taurus thought a bit of bull would go a long way. You can find other zodizc signs at http://www.imagechef.com/ic/final_widget.jsp

Week 4 #8 & #9 Thoughts on RSS Feeds

Well I've set up the Bloglines account and added some feeds from the sites which have feeds and I can see that it would be useful to manage all the information you might want to access on a regular basis from the internet as it allows you to use one site rather than several to do that. However I still come back to the concern that to do this you are spending so much time in front of a computer and there is so much more to life than a computer. I can see that if you had a news group where everyone was discussing a particular topic that this would be a way to do this without having to have a face to face meeting and would certainly be useful if you all lived along way from each other or if time was short. I don't know that this is something I would use on a regular basis. Having looked at some of the search tools to find feeds my head is reeling. There is so much information and you wonder about the privacy associated with feeds. Google blog search like google seems very easy to use but very broad in it's coverage whereas some of the others are a bit more specific. Finding time for all of this is very hard to do but I guess I've made a start.