Exercise #11 Wikis

Have been into Wikipedia for a quick overlook, but always went to other sources afterwards.
I went through all the links that were mentioned,eg the tutorial-that guy is getting on my nerves!!
Went to the Oregon Library Instruction Wiki-a resource for librarians to help them learn from another.
Collaboration is everything for wikis.
Would be good to have a patron-library collaboration in book reviews and it would be useful for sharing ideas on a subject that needs updating frequently.

#10 Web 2.10

must be tired
Have gone into ---
away from iceburgs
into a new world of librarianship
to more powerful ways to cooperate

yawn
could not do more

Technorati

I explored the Top 100 blogs,voted by authority and went into site 4-Engadget which was about photoshop for videos. It was voted number 5 by fans.
Jennifer Garner was number 4 in the top searches.
There were 7,600 results for Learning 2.0.
Will reserve judgement until I get more time to go back in but the tutorials I went into about Technorati were good

Exercise#8 Del.icio.us

I think del.icio.us is a clear, very well organised site.It allows you to organise a group of websites and does not limit you to accessing them from just one computer.
Being able to make many tags is also something I liked.
It could be useful for reference librarians and definitely for research in classrooms.

Discovery Exercise (#7.2):Search for RSS Feeds

I really liked Topix-the top stories had clean,unfussy lines and it was fast.
Latest news when I went in was posted an hour ago.
Syndic8 apparently is a directory of feeds,but I found it confusing and slow. Perhaps will go back later for another look.
Technorati is very American. I don't really want to read about Lindsay Lohan as the scoop story.
Probably because I subscribed to Blogline first and spent the most time in it,I found it really good.In Breaking News Stuff (www.stuff .co.nz/News) was top of the list.
On the right were matching feeds to Reuters, NYT and BBC.
Typing in "gardening" in the searchbox Blogline came up with some good links,eg 'About Gardening'.

Links

Participant's Blogs
23 Things to Do
The NSL Learning 2.0 exercises blog feed
Reader’s Club new review feeds
Unshelved - Library cartoon feed.

(#7.1) Get to know about RSS

I thought RSS was an illness. Glad to learn it means "Really Simple Syndication".
I've set up a Blogline account,but when I wanted to confirm my account by e-mailing for verification, my pop-up security blocks it even when I changed the security level. Will have to wait for one of the family to come home!!
I am looking forward to subscribing to some feeds, especially news, book and movie sites.
It was great watching the various You Tube tutorials-very helpful. Had a look at the 'BBC" and "The Shifted Librarian'.