#15 Web 2.0 and Library 2.0

John Reimer's - "To better Bibliographic Services" struck a cord with me as I am in the Bibliographic Services team at Darebin Libraries. Libraries have certainly had a history of cooperatively sharing cataloguing and thus I read with interest of the possible uses of streamlining metadata creation. It makes sense to enhance sharing of information in much deeper ways through technology. Rick Anderson's - Away from the Iceberg's was quite accessible also and made me think carefully about those 3 major icebergs that threaten libraries - 1.The just in case collection 2.Reliance on user education 3.The Come-to-us model of library service. I agree heartily that libraries need to acknowledge and adapt to fundamental changes in our marketplaces!

#14 Getting not so technical with Technorati

Technorati is the leading search tool and authority for blogs.
Considering that Technorati says that last year over 50 million blogs
were tracked by them, this is huge! I explored Technorati and found
14,880 posts of blogs for the term 'learning 2.0' and 931 actual blogs.
Searching one of my favourite subjects for this exercise 'Jack Russells'
resulted in 196 blogs. The popular section in Technorati is interesting
to visit with 'Top Favourited Blogs' - Boing Boing is at the top of the list.

#13 Tagging and social bookmarking in del.icio.us

Social bookmarking seems to be a very smart concept and is great for
sharing favourite websites using tags which are made public.
Sharing great websites on similar topics and finding what other people
have discovered allows you to explore your topic on a deeper level.

#12 Rollyo exercise

I have enjoyed creating searchroll's for my blog and in particular found gathering the sites
for recipes and bookshops very useful. I consider this tool a very practical one!

#11 Librarything

I have enjoyed using http://www.librarything.com/ and have added entries of recent books I have read. I will tell my bookgroup about this site and suggest we set up an entry of books we have enjoyed for the year.


The Birth of Venus: A Novel Sarah Dunant
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
Magician (Riftwar Saga) Raymond E. Feist
Silk (MTI) Alessandro Baricco
The Time Traveler's Wife Audrey Niffenegger
We Need to Talk About Kevin: A Novel (P.S.) Lionel Shriver

#10 Image generators (continued from post below)

My name "Jacinta' in Chinese

http://www.chinesetools.eu/names/

Other great image generators which are great fun can be found at http://generatorblog.blogspot.com/ and also http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/

# 8 RSS # 9 Finding feeds # 10 Image generators

#8 Make life "really simple" with RSS and a newsreader".
After a slow start, I have revisited RSS feeds and had far more success.
RSS means Really Simple Syndication and saves users valuable time in directing newsfeeds and websites to one place and at one time.

I have set up bloglines account ( a free online newsreader) and subscribed to several staff blogs as well as library based ones, health topics and boingboing! So many great ideas created for this internet age!

# 9 Finding feeds
Once you become familiar with the different types of news feed icons, they suddenly catch your attention and another piece of the puzzle clicks into place.

I tried using Blogline's search tool and added a really good astronomy feed. I tried to use Feedster.com but its' site was being maintained. Technorati looked useful for finding popular blogs on a range of subjects.

# 10 Image generators
Image or text generators allow us to easily manipulate images and graphics to create fun images
Here is one image generator that I have had fun with:-




http://www.glassgiant.com/back_to_school/