Thing 17

I liked this thing as I am a user of Facebook and My Space and felt quite comfortable doing the exercises. I love these social sites even though I'm not a huge user, probably only going on once or twice a week to keep up with family and friends. I thought the Auckland Library and Hennepin County Library pages were great, however apart from a couple of comments from Manukau library staff it does not appear that the Hennepin County has been in use since May 2008. I could see how this would be a great way of keeping patrons/friends up to date with what's happening at Manukau Libraries.

Library 2.0 and Web 2.0

This would have to have been my least favorite exercise so far. It just seemed like too much hard work. However I did go and read all the different perspectives and I have to say I liked Rick Anderson's perspective, nice easy to read words and three very good points about potential "icebergs" that we really do need to think about. Here is my two cents worth.
1.The “just in case” collection... Yes it is problematic but I don't know that getting rid of a paper based etc collection altogether is really a viable idea, I mean what if technology failed, was held to ransom or something, all would be lost. No best to have the library collection “just in case”.
2.Reliance on user education... Excellent point regarding Librarians trying to teach all patrons how to use our 'technology' when it would be more effective to make our 'technology' so easy to use that no training is required. Of course this is only going to get easier as younger patrons coming through are much more technology savvy.
3.The “come to us” model of library service...Yep we need to move and adapt with the times and I have to disagree with Rick about this disaster looming, I think that Libraries are doing a good job of this with Library cataloges, databases etc, and more each day, available to patrons online. However lets remember that I am looking at this perspective a good two years after he has written it.

Technorati

I must scroll down, I must scroll down, I must scroll down. This is what I have learned today. After bashing my head on my desk and moaning to all around me because I couldn't find a way to search tags, I scrolled down the advanced search page and found, lo and behold, 'tag search'. So after all that my results for each search were different. I then had a look at Technorati Popular as well but did not actually find anything that I would call interesting. Mind you at first glance I thought the 'Boing Boing' one could be interesting but alas no Tigger in sight.

Tagging

I went, I saw, I tagged.I even got Del.icio.us. What can I say.. well on the negative side, I can say that it's not a very pretty site and that a few more options in the sorting department would be helpful. However on a positive note I can see where using tags could come in handy when searching for stuff(technical word).Also I like Del.icio.us it was easy to use and I had fun searching for what interests me and getting loads of websites back that I could save as bookmarks for myself. I tended to use the tags already attached though as they were pretty comprehensive.