#17 PBwiki Learning 2.0

Just added my blog to PBwiki Learning 2.0 . Instructions a bit confusing but it's there now. I've also added a few of my favourite TV shows.
As Captain Jack Harkness says The 21st century is when it all changes.

#16 The Magician

Here's an image of The Magician from the Tarotpedia, an online encyclopedia of tarot which operates as a wiki. Now that I'm aware of them, I'm finding Wikis everywhere. Until recently I was only really aware of the Wikipedia project but the Wikipedia is only one example of a Wiki, software that creates a collaborative website. There's many examples of places where a Wiki would be a useful tool for library staff and users. Wikis would allow us to constantly revise and improve our online information. Operating our online information links as a Wiki disperses the responsibility for keeping the links current and relevant. A Readers Wiki with reviews and comments about authors and books would get staff and users interacting online about that great thing they have in common - reading. The Princeton Public Library BookLoversWiki is a terrific example.
A Community Information Wiki would be a great community resource. Local and Family history could also benefit from the input of local enthusiasts. In fact anywhere the input of many authors would be an asset is an opportunity to use a Wiki.

#15 More thoughts about Library 2.0

"Library 2.0 is a user-centered virtual community. It is a socially rich, often egalitarian electronic space. While Librarian 2.0 might act as a facilitator and provide support, he or she is not necessarily primarily responsible for the creation of the content."
That's a quote from a very informative article by Jack Maness on Library 2.0 Theory.The key concepts here are community and facilitator. Library 2.0 is about not only being responsive to our library users but allowing them real input into the shape of the library - and by this I mean the library as an information community existing in the virtual as well as the physical world. Wikis, blogs etc are just two of the tools that might be used to achieve this. Goodbye to the desk!

#15 Library 2.0 and Web 2.0

postcard - Biltmore Estate library
Originally uploaded by Jassy-50

The library as repository of knowledge, as meditative space, as a temple of the book.
Interesting that Wendy Schulz's article posits a Library 4.0, a retreat with comfortable chairs, quiet, a single malt. The dilemma - to bring the innovation, interactivity, the user-centred focus of Library 2.0 into our libraries and to make it accessible to all, not just the techno-savvy.
Maintain all that's wonderful about the old-fashioned notion of the Library as a sacred space for learning and launch it into cyberspace.

#14 Technorati

Time to have a look at Technorati. It seems pretty easy to use. No surprises in the list of most popular blogs. They seem to appear again and again in our Learning 2.0. explorations. The wonderful Boing, Boing is up there. If you haven't had a look check it out. I love the steampunk laptop. We've had a good look at tags with Flickr and Librarything. It's a great way to organise the web although the librarian in me gets a little distressed when i see the variations in tags. On Librarything you might get people using magical realism, magic realism, magic relism, Magical Reality, magical realsim, magical-realism, magical.realism magicalrealism, magicval realism and so on...
there's a whole debate out there on whether or not tagging should be "free" or "controlled". What does everyone think?

But back to Technorati, there's some interesting stats on it. I like the little Mentions by Day box that shows how many people have posted on a particular search term over the last few months.I did the recommended search on Learning 2.0 and it's amazing to see the different results, over 6000 results by searching the blogs but only 600 or so by searching just the tags. I guess that means not everyone is using tags. I'll have a go at tagging this post although I'm not too sure I know what i'm doing yet.

#13 del.icio.us

I wasn't too sure about del.icio.us at first. But if you're like me and you go from home computer to work computer (or any one of a number of work computers) I can see how it's a great idea to have all your bookmarks accessible.
It's a great tool. The really fun stuff is when you take a look at what other people are bookmarking. How can we resist The 50 Dumbest Things George Bush has ever said or, in a more literary mood, 201 Stories by Anton Chekhov
What's not to like?

#12 Rollyo

I'm not too sure about Rollyo. What does everyone else think? It seems kind of slow and it seems to me that just as easy to search the entire web. After all the nice thing about searching the web can be that moment of serendipity when you find a new site that is really useful. Anyway I've added a bookish search box to my blog to play with.