Twitter again.....

I have been looking at Twitter again. I don't know what it is but I feel like I have to find something useful about Twitter. I have looked and I have read but all I can really say is "it is not something I would use". I think it may evolve into something more useful in the future, or I hope it evolves, but as of now I believe it is more of a play-thing for teens.

I did find a short article by Roy Tennent on Twitter and you can read it here: http://libraryjournal.com/blog/1090000309/post/20010002.html

Another item to read at Lifehack.org on twitter:
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/twitter-use-it-productively.html

Number 14 of the 23 things.....

Number 14 of the 23 things challenge is: Explore Technorati and learn how tags work with blog posts.

What is technorati? Technorati is a search engine that monitors web-blogs.Technorati claims to be the largest source of fresh information. Although technorati started out by searching only blogs they have now expanded to searching "citizen media" which includes, photos, videos, and other live communities.Technorati searches blogs by the tags that the blog author has used to tag their blog posts. Remember that tags are keywords that are made up by the blogger.

I started thinking about tags and realized that tags are also what is written in "metadata." Okay, that does make sense. When I took a web page development class last semester I had to include my own metadata. The search engine searches for these tags that users have defined, just as the search engine searches metatags that are placed in the head section of the web page in xhtml. I knew that html class would come in useful! Ha, ha...

Del.icio.us follow up!

Okay, here is the link I promised to post.

http://del.icio.us/cdvilla

I have 3 web 2.0 bookmarks so far. If you really want to discover some really awesome web 2.0 social-software/applications click on the "Go2Web20.net" link. This is "The complete Web 2.0 directory." One could spend days here just browsing all of the great and free web 2.0 applications. Another link that is very informative is "David Lee King" Who has a blog with very intelligent information on Librarians and web 2.0. He has a list of competencies that will give you a good idea of what one should know about web 2.0 and technology. I am going to do a follow up on "twitter" very soon. As I have learned a little bit more about this instant communication tool.

Enjoy,
Carla

23 Things Challenge #13 Social Bookmarking

23 Things challenge #13 Learn about social bookmarking then create a Del.icio.us account and add and tag some Web 2.0 sites.

Social Bookmarking:

Things I learned about Social Bookmarking:

1. Social bookmarking is not new as it has been around on the internet since 1996.

2.Users store links that they find useful and name the links with Tags/keywords that the user makes up.

3.Then the book marks/links are shared with the WWW.

4.Bookmarks can also be exported/imported, rated, commented on, noted, subscribed to,emailed linked etc.

5. There are many social bookmarking web sites out in the www. Such as: Bloglines, Blue Dot, Chipmark,Stumble Upon to name just a few.

Now that I have learned about Social Bookmarking and have signed up for a del.icio.us account I am off to find Web 2.0 websites to Add and to Tag. When I am finished I will post a link.

Article on Second Life

I read an article today about University College Dublin opening a library in Second Life. You can read it here:

http://www.ucd.ie/news/june07/062707_second_life.html

I learned a few more things about Second Life and libraies such as: There are over 40 libraries in Second Life and most are located in Cybrary City which is on Info Island. Some of these libraries are offering services and at the same time the librarians are learning new library skills for the 21st century. This is very exciting!