Folsonomy probably has poor old Mr Dewey rotating in his grave. Sounds like there are no hard fast rules just go with the flow and whatever pops into your head ay? I guess if you are a web designer and needing your information to hit as many people as possible you would need to be into metadata and tagging in a big way so that your site can appear in the early scroll down of any particular search. IE be at the top of the "dog" search instead of number 1million and 99.
Technorati's "State of the Blogosphere" postings, which claimed that they track 27.7 million blogs, but not Myspace !! Nearly won the 2006 web award but was outstripped by Flickr and Google Maps. The latter would have to be my favorite site at the moment, having many friends and relatives living in Europe I can zero in on to their houses and almost watch them weed the garden. WOW.!!!!!
http://technorati.com/blogs/
http://del.icio.us.com/
http://www.librarything.com/
I joined Library thing but can’t go back to my account because my cookies in my computer aren’t set to the right time. Boo Hoo it is the right time by the ABC beeps so whose time should my computer go by??? I could do with a cookie right now Macadamia and white chocolate are my favourite. I do like the concept of library thing though and intend to enter many of the books I have read. I quite like the book suggester tag that could be quite useful at work.
"Just in case collections"
Reliance on user education I believe the research skills need to be taught in Preps and honed on right through school I am beginning to push this barrow after giving up for a while. The kids still need to read to do any of this web stuff so literacy is still important and the start of it all so to say.
I think we can help in this age of too much choice of reference points by making sure our web page at the library has a one stop shop with access through searches to the best sites available on the web. We are starting with our encyclopaedia online, ebsco and various referencing tools that we subscribe too but with the advent of library consortia surely we can work towards having the best quality search engines and information to hand. Wow I just read O’Reilly’s report and he agrees with me!!!!
John J. Riemer on better bibliographic services makes a lot of sense. That is also what I was talking about one stop shop for all your info.
I love this quote “When you have a program that is exceeding expectations, you have the foundation for success. Empowering the patrons will empower your library.” From George Bishop, Information Centre Director, Ovid-Elsie Schools
http://www.oclc.org/nextspace/002/advocacy.htm
There’s some really interesting stuff out there if you know where to find it and I guess that’s what WEB 2 and 23 things is all about.
The majority of this type of event was covered at the ALIA Library Tech conference I recently attended as I said in and earlier blog.
Week 7 Wikkis
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