Web 2.0 Tools

I decided to check out the 'Games and Entertainment' winners of the Web 2.0 Awards and chose 2nd place getter 'Galaxiki' because 1st placegetter 'Zango' was blocked.

In its own words
"Galaxiki is a wiki based science fiction galaxy created, maintained and owned by its Community. As a visitor you may explore the galaxy or read science fiction and fantasy stories written by the community. As a site member you may name and edit edit solar systems and write your own science fiction or fantasy stories, post news and stories in the community blog (anything related to science, space, science fiction and fantasy is allowed) and help to build a fantastic online world.
Membership and editing community owned systems is completely free, but you may also buy your own star that will act as your personal wiki. You can name or dedicate a star, describe your planets, moons, invent alien life forms or even write entire science fiction and fantasy stories. All pages are wiki based and easy to edit."
You can also get a solar system widget of your choice. Mine is WDJ228 a red dwarf star with no planets. If you were into this sort of thing, I could see where this would be a great site to belong to.

Online applications

This one was interesting. I would have liked to have tried using 'Zoho' but unfortunately was not able to access it from work so will give it a go from home. However I had fun creating this scrapbook in 'Google Docs'.

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.

Learning 2.0 Sandbox Wiki.

I have been over to to the Learning 2.0 Sandbox Wiki and added my favourite recipe. So if you're looking for a cheap cookie recipe,here is the URL
http://manukaulearn.pbwiki.com/Favourite+Recipes.
I had a wee bit of trouble logging in because I kept trying to log in using 'training' as a password which is what I had read on the blogspot to use. Eventually I did read the frontpage of the wiki and, doh!!! there are the Log in details. Not the sharpest knife in the drawer today... well it is Monday.