Communal Commentary

As I added a post to the Wiki, it felt very much like adding to a blog. But of course the main difference is that a wiki is a shared space. There is clearly a place for both, so long as both are kept in their place...

I like my bookmark I got in grade 3

There are so many URLs so I can see the merits to an online host for faves. Like so many of these offerings, it does seem more like another toy that can tie up hours in getting everything in its right place. How often it gets used as a directory thereafter will depend on the user, however I think many users will try to get the mostest ever bookmarks like it's some kind of competition (a la friends on Facebook).
Technorati seems to me like an abridged version of any major search engine. For people in marketing it has the potential to be quite powerful, so I then wonder about the legitimacy of some of the 'most popular' tags. At face value it does seem a useful tool for browsing social commentary.

Week 5 (Albeit in Week 6)

Library Thing: is heaps good. I like looking at what people with similar taste have read, especially seeing as it's so easy to do.
Google Books: is alright. Not as quaint as Library Thing. Choosing this over Library Thing would add another sheet to Google's list of data that may be attributed to the user.
LibriVox: Is not for me, although I can see the appeal for those with visual impairments and teachers looking to free up time while a computer reads to their students. Possibly a growing market.

Read All About It

So many feeds and so many readers. If I could pinpoint a moment when all this 2.0 stuff became clear, it would have to be when I got to the bottom of Task 8 on the 23 Things blogger page. I had just made sense of the task when I read that 'Bloglines' will close next week. The frustration of this was overcome by a sense of reward in having found this out on a blog (thanks flyin carrot).

So I used blogger's RSS tool instead to begin with (see feeds at right). This works OK, however I find Google Reader to be a lot more manageable. Most useful is its' search tool, which I used to find the following feeds related to libraries and 2.0:

Information literacy meets 2.0

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The First

This is how an upload from Picasa presents in Blogger. I had to crop the photo to take up a wide region of the blog. I find it interesting that Picasa and Blogger are affiliated through Google, yet Flikr (via Yahoo) still manage to write code with a more aesthetic outcome.

Fraser Island

Fraser Island
Originally uploaded by Andrew Coates

If you'd seen my blog in the past two weeks, you'd have noticed some different photographs. I have since deleted those in light of my poor blog etiquette. I know this photographer and got his permission before posting it to my blog. It's a better photo anyway.

Some comments...

Was great to learn from the experience of others. I was in two minds before reading colleauge's posts, but am now convinced of the following: Flikr is easier to use and presents better on a 'Blogger' blog; it is also more useful from a social networking point of view; Picasa is useful for organising photos; 'Where in the World' is kind of fun, especially when the photos are bad (sorry flyin carrot).

Oh, MOST IMPORTANTLY I really like in Flikr how the 'Share This' feature exists. It at least in some way acknowledges that the photographer is OK with you sharing their photo, and acknowledges the photographer. I had to delete my original Picasa post on account of it being too difficult to credit the photographer by adding a hyperlink.