It's interesting to me that the top 2 most linked-to blogs, according to Technorati, are "gadget" sites - news, views and reviews of technology and its implements. They are engadget.com and gizmodo.com. Most of the top 10 are web- or technology-related. The most surprising thing to me? icanhascheezburger.com is in 10th place! I think this shows how much people use the web for amusement.
I searched Technorati for 'learning 2.0' in several ways: a keyword search in blog posts, a tag search and a directory search. I discovered that there are 717 blogs listed in the directory as being about 'learning 2.0' (very few had any fans!), while 488 posts had been tagged with that phrase. Only 432 posts contained the exact phrase 'learning 2.0'.
I also searched for my blog, which did not turn up. I don't plan to 'claim' it, at this point, either! If and when I decide to do so, I'll certainly put it in the 'learning 2.0' category!
Monday, October 29, 2007
Del.icio.us
I know that Delicious is a good concept, but I just can't get excited about it for my personal use. The main reason, I think, is that I don't use bookmarks anyway - I haven't for many years. Either I put frequently-used sites on my desktop, I remember the URLs, or I Google the ones I forget.
I do like the social features that Delicious offers, such as being able to track other peoples' use of certain tags. That would be very useful for librarians, to help us discover what tags our library's users (and potential users) found most useful. If we ever purchase Innovative's Encore product, this could be especially useful. For now, though, I don't think Delicious will rock my world!
I do like the social features that Delicious offers, such as being able to track other peoples' use of certain tags. That would be very useful for librarians, to help us discover what tags our library's users (and potential users) found most useful. If we ever purchase Innovative's Encore product, this could be especially useful. For now, though, I don't think Delicious will rock my world!
Friday, October 26, 2007
RollyO
What a great idea! I like this for libraries as well as for personal searching. Libraries could create search engines for their users, including only sites they know to be reliable. The down side to RollyO, for libraries, is that commercial info appears, even if you don't include .coms in you list of sites. I created a rolled search for United Nations news and information. I didn't add my blog to the site, although I might go back and do it later!
My LibraryThing
I'm not sure why the title of this software is LibraryThing, but I like it! I've always arranged my personal library in rough subject or genre order, but nothing beyond that. I can see that it would be relatively easy to create an online catalog of my library using LibraryThing. It's a great idea to use Z39.50 searching to access bibliographic information from Amazon, the Library of Congress, and other world-class libraries. A small institutional library could use this to catalog their collection, for only $15 a year (if it's not-for-profit). Of course, I don't know what will happen to all these catalogs when the creator, Tim Spaulding, stops supporting the software...
I've only added 5 books so far, but you're welcome to check out my cataog! Tagging is funny (strange) to me, although I'm sure that's because I haven't done a lot of it. I very much have the urge to make my tags LC subject headings, or at least to control the vocabulary I use. Otherwise, it seems as though I'm just playing a stream of consciousness word game about each book! Reviewing seems like a good feature, and it could be useful for finding new books to read from others' catalogs.
I've only added 5 books so far, but you're welcome to check out my cataog! Tagging is funny (strange) to me, although I'm sure that's because I haven't done a lot of it. I very much have the urge to make my tags LC subject headings, or at least to control the vocabulary I use. Otherwise, it seems as though I'm just playing a stream of consciousness word game about each book! Reviewing seems like a good feature, and it could be useful for finding new books to read from others' catalogs.
Image generators
I've played with several image generators over the past few weeks. Of course, as a former cataloger, the catalog card generator was immediately appealing to me. However, as a former cataloger, I had a hard time getting the look I wanted from the generator. No AACRII descriptive cataloging conventions allowed, apparently.
The "Dummies" book cover generator is fun to play with. You can change the "dummies" part of the title to any 7-character word ("newbies" is the default, as a matter of fact), and almost every word of text is up to you. If you don't actively put in an edition, the default, current year, remains.
From the Generator Blog, I found the Text Collage generator and the Chalkboard Message generator. The collage generator is fun, but it would be nice to be able to choose your own words instead of relying completely on the generator. With the chalkboard message generator, it would also be good to be add your own graphics, since there are a limited number of choices.
Although perhaps just a seasonal choice, the skeleton logo maker is fun for this time of year!
The "Dummies" book cover generator is fun to play with. You can change the "dummies" part of the title to any 7-character word ("newbies" is the default, as a matter of fact), and almost every word of text is up to you. If you don't actively put in an edition, the default, current year, remains.
From the Generator Blog, I found the Text Collage generator and the Chalkboard Message generator. The collage generator is fun, but it would be nice to be able to choose your own words instead of relying completely on the generator. With the chalkboard message generator, it would also be good to be add your own graphics, since there are a limited number of choices.
Although perhaps just a seasonal choice, the skeleton logo maker is fun for this time of year!
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