Delicious

Again I was late jumping on this bandwagon but now that I have I think it's the best thing since sliced bread. I actually started my Delicious account prior to getting to this task in 23 Things so that made life easier. The hardest part about Delicious is remembering to click the Delicious tag button instead of bookmarking in the browser! I am currently in the process of making sure my bookmarks from home and at work find their way into Delicious. Delicious is a tool which I think has great potentials for libraries and is fabulous for individuals. Who wouldn't like the freedom it provides with your bookmarks. No longer is it necessary to email or remember a URL for bookmarking from 1 PC to the next. It also allows someone to share their favourites with their friends or the world at large but also allows a user to keep private a favourite it might be best no one knows about. How good is that! Library wise it's an opportunity to allow users to participate in the provision of resources that are made available to them. We can't possibily know all the good URLs related to a particular subject but our users may be experts in certain areas and this allows them to share their 'favourites' with everyone. One thing though, and it's an issue for a lot of the web 2.0 tools, what happens if Delicious 'disappears' - everyone with Delicious accounts then loose their tags and chaos ensues or tag rage becomes a common phenomenon? Or an I just being pessimistic airing that thought?

RSS feed

That was easy seeing as I have been using a RSS feed reader for yonks! See the link on the right to my Bloglines feeds.

Wikis

Well I just accomplished putting some links on my work wiki which certainly wasn't hard at all. The hardest part was deciding what my fav blog was to create a link too. So now it's on to the next task...

Libraries and censorship

Just read the most amazing blog post which is a response to a request to ban a children's book in a US public library and thought I have to share it. http://jaslarue.blogspot.com/2008/07/uncle-bobbys-wedding.html I only hope I can be so eloquent if ever faced with a similar situation...or maybe that should read I only hope I can be so eloquent!

I passed!

Got my results a few weeks ago and I passed both subjects - WOOHOO! I'm now well and truly into this semester's work and trying to make sure I start my first assignment before it gets any closer to its due date. Both subjects are really interesting. I'm learning all about metadata and Web 2.0 which is great and ties in nicely with the 23 Things program I'm doing for work. Now all I need to do is actually finish 23 Things...