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

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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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