Wikis

Like selecting hard copy books, its important to know what is the source of the information so we can assess its accuracy. Unfortunately there is the lunatic fringe, so those wikis which are controlled - must be registered to edit - will become helpful sources, as well as providing a different way of organising the knowledge within a specific library service. Now how do we find them.

Library 2

So much is happening with the web. How do we pick the stayers rather than the trendy here now - gone tomorrow. So many of our libraries users are not aware of what options are available. How does the library community decide where to spend its limited resources?

Technorati

Technorati shows again how important it is to check spelling, typing, etc. Is it Learning 2.0 or Learning2.0- space or no space makes a difference.
Not convinced yet that blogging is the way I want to spend my time. Do I really want to know what someone who I have no knowledge of their knowledge/credentials/abilities whatever has to say about anything? If I do than this tool could be helpful.

Delicious

I think this could be very useful, being able to search for a website by more than one keyword. But I'll have to think carefully about what terms I will be likely to use. Not sure about the social networking aspect. I'll have to explore further to see what other cataloguers are tagging to see if this can be useful to me.

Rollyo

Made a search engine using Rollyo. Seems to work exactly like the instructions. Now adding html
Will the icon appear? NO
Didn't select all the html code. Try again.

I thought it would take me to the rollyo I created. But it didn't. Try again.

Select Search Engine...Across the top (Aus)Search The Web

Powered by Rollyo

I Love technology! Why doesn't the 1 search roll I created and selected appear?

Generators

Checked out the generators. The one I liked best with the picture framer on FD Toys url:http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/frame.php
This will be useful. It actually allowed me to send pictues via email (only a small size0 and to save them to my computer as jpeg images. However, there is not much manipulation for positioning the photo within the frame.
You can even search the national library for catalogue records using Library Thing.

RSS

Its amazing - I've never noticed before the RSS button on the websites I visit regularly. I've now subscribed to Library of Congress Subject Heading weekly list, OCLC's Dewey Journal - DDC updates, and Incite

There was quite a difference in the ease of subscribing on some sites to others- I never managed to get the link from into PLCMC Learning 2.0 website RSS link into Bloglines. I tried pasting the first URL and then the second URL then the entire thing with HTML (without quotes or brackets) but no luck.

The easiest way to link was by selecting from the Bloglines feeds list itself - if you could find anything relevant. The OCLC site was also very good, select the RSS you wanted then select the icon for your RSS newsreader.

Like many things in Learn2.0, if I just keep trying with varitations I'll eventually get there or give up and try something altogether different.

The most interesting thing I read was about Open identity - that's what I really want - only 1 log-in and password. Of course, you'd want to be very sure of security - you wouldn't want your identity stolen!

No rants this week
Maisy