week 6 task #14 & #15

technorati

I guess it's an incredibly brave move to try and tag or organise in any way the great 'soup' of blog posts out there - which probably explains why the 'blog post' search mechanism sends back some very broad and amorphous results! - it will be interesting to see if the specificity improves in time. Searching for whole blogs (rather than posts) and videos and photo's is useful, and reasonably easy to use.

perspectives on web 2.0 - I personally like the idea of 'giving them what they want' which seems to be a library 2.0 philosophy - and I can cope with the idea that the technology we harness will just 'morph' almost daily. We just need to get over the idea that we have to be 'in control' of everything. The trick will be remembering to accommodate those patrons who like the status quo as it is - and who want to get old-fashioned stuff like books!

week 6 task 13

now i see how this tool /lesson is building on the stuff in the previous tasks. I may personally not have found rollyo to be all that useful, but I can definitely see wide applications for delicious. It would be good for personal interests (such as crafts / hobbies etc.), for study and research interests, and also relevant work related sites. I looked at some crochet site links from other peoples tags - and found some good links to patterns. This may have taken ages to trawl through google or similar to find them. I also found some interesting library reader development stuff which I have an interest in.

week 5 task 12 rollyo

not entirely excited by rollyo. it would be useful I suppose if you did really need to collect your favourite sites on any given topic. it seems to me that there are probably other tools that do it better. years ago I remember reading an article which suggested that trying to catalogue the internet would be like 'pinning jelly to the wall'. rollyo (and the like) enable us to pin our own personally relevant jelly to the wall - to a degree - which is good. I would probably use it to create my own particular search rolls, but would not necessarily look at anyone else's search rolls.

later on in the week

I had another think about this, and it would be useful to put all your job searching sites in together (or something like that) - I'd previously thought bloglines would be good for this, but I'm now a bit confused about the whole thing!

Week 5 task 11

Really, really enjoyed ' library thing' - and think it would be good to do an in library demo for booklovers - as well as an in-library demo for people to look at 'bookcrossing' - which is a site where you can 'release' books into the wild, and trace their progress as they journey around the world. One of the books i added to my 'library thing' catalogue is a cookbook from 1924 - 'ida Bailey Allens Modern Cook book : 2500 recipes'. I own a copy of this book, purchased in a south gippsland junk shop, and i use it from time to time and it lives permanently on my bedside table. (yes - I know that's a little weird). Next time I go into library thing I must see if there's any other groups or readers who appreciate the wisdom of ida Bailey Allen