15. Read a few perspectives on Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and the future of libraries and blog your thoughts.

15. Read a few perspectives on Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and the future of libraries and blog your thoughts.

It seems like everytime I turn around there is more to read about Web 2.0. So basicly Web 2.0 is any kind of software, or site that promotes collaboration or sharing. Is it useful? Some of it is useful and some of it is just a way to waste time on the Internet. What I find most useful are: del.icio.us, Wikis, RSS feeds and blogs. What I find the least useful is Twitter, and the most entertaining is YouTube and Flickr.

I read an article the other day on Web 3.0! Yes, that's right. And I am starting to wonder if this Web 2.0, Web 3.0 is mostly hype?

Exercise 4 Web 2.0 Class Info people

In the info people class that I am taking I am supossed to post 5 RSS feeds that I subscribed to using the Google/Reader. So here they are:

David Lee King
Information Wants To
Library Garden
Library Stuff
Tame The Web

You can see what some of these recently siubscribed to blogs are saying by looking at my shared items to the right of my page.

Library Thing Part 2

I received a comment from Tim who is the founder of LibraryThing. You can read it here:

"Hey. This is the founder of LibraryThing. I found this on Google Blog Search.

I'm quite confident that what you ran into was about your user name, not about LibraryThing. Members often forget their name and type in something different. For ease of use the sign in and sign up box are the same, and some users don't notice when they've created a new account."


So I tried to sign in again and guess what? Duh, I payed closer attention this time and my Library is still there! Sorry Tim, Library Thing is not a dissapointment. I just freaked out when I signed in and I had zero books. I had actually created a new account like Tim said.

I guess I need to read the book "Library Thing for Dummies"!

I still love Library Thing!

Library Thing?

Okay, I decided to check out my library at "Library Thing" remember it was one of the 23 things? Well, I sign in and I have no books cataloged! What? I spent at least 45 minutes to an hour cataloging my library and when I go back I have nothing listed? Great! What good is it if the program does not even save your information? It's all virtual! It's there today and gone tomorrow. It's so disappointing.

Info People Workshop/class

I signed up for an Info People workshop/class online about Web 2.0. It started on Tuesday and so far we have covered a bit of history on web 2.0 (o'reilly coined the term) a bit about social software etc. It's a bit repetitious. So far what I have discovered to be the most useful tool (for me personally )is the social bookmarking website del.icio.us! I have used this website at work and at home and it is so useful. I can access my favorites from any computer anywhere! It's really incredible.

Anyway, Just got back from vacation so I need to get back to work on the 23 things. I have not posted since July 18 is it?