Bill's Place

Picasa

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 23:08:47 -0600

I created an account for Picasa and worked on a photo. For a free program , I thought it was quite amazing that theis program had some of the tools to fix and enhance photos. This is certainly a a good alternative to fickr.

Del.icio.us

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:50:45 -0600

This is a very useful site for tracking trends and topics you are interested in. The tagging that people do helps identify the subject of sites that are not apparent. I registered on Del.icio.us and I hope to make use of it. II think there is potential for this tool especially if we want to encourage our users to share their thoughts about the web.

Technorati

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:43:20 -0600

There is lot to explore in this site. I registered for this one because I am going to try to use this. I searched "learning 2.0" as blog post, tag and in the blog directory, I got 9,454 hits in blog posts, 995 in tags & 841 in the blog directory. I ran across a posting from a librarian who was working on wikis for a learning 2.0 project similar to ours at UMD library.

Library 2.0

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:40:47 -0600

I think we are living the sentiments of these articles. We all know that we must change what we are doing but it is very difficult for us to let go. That is especially true when it is not entirely clear where things are leading. Many of the elements that we have been looking in the Learning 2.0 exercises are how to cope with this changing environment where are users are more engaged and the amount of information continues to grow.

Web 2.0 Awards

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:23:00 -0600

There were many interesting sites to explore but I liked the Google Maps the best. The site is excellent for answering mapping and directional questions. The combination of satellite views for many locations is really powerful. I would like to see progam like developed for navigating people inside our library to library resources and services.

Flickr Mashups

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:16:17 -0600

I looked at several of the Flickr mashups . One that I sort of liked playing with was at http://www.airtightinteractive.com/projects/flickr_postcard_browser/. I searched for some specific tagas and it put the results in a wall of postacrds.

Image Generators

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:55:57 -0600

I'm not sure which of the sites at looked would be relevant for the library. But I went the following site:
http://www.wrestlingname.com/ . It's purpsoe was to give you a Pro Wrestling name. Anyway after entering my name it told me my wrestling name was "wild Cannon."

Library Thing

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:44:04 -0600

I thought this was a very interesting site. It was easy to create an account. I put put five books into my library. The link is as follows: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/Bsoza . While I don't think this is a substitute for library cataloging. I do think that for personal libraries this is a good way to get a better idea of what you have.

Zoho Writer

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:14:05 -0600

I created my account and worked on several documents.The product seems to have many of the tools that a traditional word processor has. I certainly can see the potential of this for doing collaborative writing. I have had situations where someone sends attachments that I can not open. Zoho eliminates this problem.

Rollyo

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:08:29 -0600

I created an account in Rollyo and I found it quite easy to use. Too much information seems to be a common theme these days. The ability to create a search engine based on one's trusted sources is a truly novel idea. I think one would have make sure that he or she tapped into enough quality sites but this is a good alternative to doing a google search.

Exploring Wikis

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:19:50 -0600

I was very impressed with Mary's wiki work. List of 25 uses for wikis could be expanded greatly. I think that I like ZOHO a little better that PB Wiki but they are both seemingly easy to use. I do worry about how spam can overwhelm wikis but I assume that there will be ways to control it in the future.

Wikis

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:39:39 -0600

Wikis provide a tremendous capability for collaboration. I think the U of M LEO Wiki is especially good because it allows librarians on all of the campuses the ability to track and give input on Aleph projects. More and more , projects are collaborative and this WIKI lets us have input and we don't have to have a lot of technological expertise to participate.

Technology Topic

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:34:06 -0600

I've been following developments in e-readers for books. As you know, the Library purchased a Sony e-reader to help track this technology. Just this last week, Amazon introduced the Kindle, its new entrant into this field. While there was some immediate praise in the media. I've been getting a lot of articles in my Bloglines account that are very critical of the new reader. As far as I can see the printed book seems safe for the time being.

Flickr Experience

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:34:46 -0600

I've spent quite a bit on time on Flickr. I looked at a lot of photos. I was interested in looking at the photos that Kathryn Fuller took at the Berman event on Spetember 14, 2007. I thought her shot of Shixing Wen & Vice President Mondale was very good. Her is a link http://www.flickr.com/photos/14858064@N02/1542181145/ to it.

You Tube

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:36:47 -0600

I think it would be quite possible to spend a long time on this site. I looked at old television commercials as well as a short Will Farrell clip, I found a library video "Welcome to the Williams College Library Mystery... that I thought was a little hoky but they did attempt to add some humor. I think streaming video has great potential for the library for doing explanation of library services/policies, tours and tutorials