Tagging del.icio.us andTechnorati

I'm still here,just got carried away with the other life ! I can see that having Del.icio.us as a tool would be good to keep track of your personal favorites. These mechanisms are all really good for people who are moving about and use different computers - like our patrons in the library or travelers. I was interested to see that the tags described the bookmarks so then i could look up the tag and see what else was related to that subject. Looked up howto and photography - it means that you would find things that maybe you wouldn't have found before !

I hadn't heard of Technorati before but it's a search engine to search blogs ! Tags are used to help categorise the search so you can check out other blogs with similar tags ; there's that time factor again - I can see how people get lost in their computers !!

The next thing i looked at was :

Web 2.0 and the Future of Libraries

• Email
• Favorite
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• Twitter
• Facebook
• Buzz
• WordPress
• Blogger
• more »

I think the web is amazing and you can just add things here and there..............however there is a little bit of an information overload at times and even though you can get so much from the web people still will need the human interface and real books they can take home and know that the information they are getting is well studied and correct.

It will be important for libraries to keep up with innovations and what's happening on the web as well as the other ways of sourcing information. More importantly it will be important for us to know where to get accurate information as it seems everyone can put things on the web for all to see however sometimes things are opinions rather that fact.

Times are changing and so is the way we source information - it will be interesting to see in the future how libraries operate - we are changing with the times : computers and now wireless available free of charge...........who knows what the future will bring ?

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Rollyo

Well I'm sure this must be very good when it's up and running but I've tried a few times to get some info on it and both times have got the message that "Rollyo is(again sorry) it's undergoing some much needed maintenance..............will leave them to it I think and get on with the next task at hand !!!

Twitter and Library thing

If only I had more time in a day - Not sure what I'd start with but a whole new world is opening up !!

Twitter is great but it would take me all day to look up all the things I'm interested in !! Neat to get all the comments from other people and new ideas.

Library thing is also a great engine. I looked up a chick lit author I'd enjoyed reading over the holidays (Claudia Carrol) and was neat to be able to see what others thought of it, other books she'd read and also different authors who may interest me. This is a great thing for people looking for similar type authors or books to read when they've read all from a particular one they like.

Another thing I like about it is that you can see the different covers the book has had - interesting to see how they are different around the world !

Popular covers

Maybe when I have a little more time I might try to get one of the free advance copies of a book in return for a review - very good idea for book-lovers and helpful for the publishers to get a feel for how the book is going to go !

RSS feeds and library related blogs

Generally this is a good idea but i found that there was a bit of an overload of information !

I set up a google reader and bloglines account and looked into related feeds - libraries, movies weather and book news and author interviews.

It's very easy to set up feeds from gmail and also to remove feeds which is good as I like to keep the extra's to a minimum. I seemed to get a lot of extra emails with updates which I just had to get rid of - all takes time !

I will look into this some more however at this stage I think I prefer to use my bookmarks on the computer for my favourite sites.

I can see for people who don't have their own computer and work through their e-mail accounts on the library computers that this could be a good idea.