extreme breakdancing

And this is what i wish i break like...

#20 YouTube

As a lot of you may know I am a bit obsessed with dance - and at the moment I am particularly obsessed with trying to teach myself to breakdance! So I decided to see if there were any videos on Youtube that showed how to breakdance and there were heaps. Here is one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3JgqFh1Wjg Hope you all get inspired by this and start dancing.

#19 Web 2.0 awards

This was fun to explore what other sites are out there. My favourite was www.last.fm This site enables you to find suggestions for music you may like. I love getting ideas of things to listen to/read/watch etc (this is part of why I loved librarything because i love getting book suggestions). It is always a little depressing realising how predictable I am though - there suggestions are usually so spot on that it makes me feel very predictable.

#18 Zoho

Initially had some trouble signing up to Zoho - firstly web marshall blocking it and than had trouble selelcting username (everything I tried gave a message that it was already taken - even when i resorted to absolutely crazy usernames that i am sure were not taken...???) But in the end all was set up and I was able to play around with this. It was very interesting - i didn't know such a thing existed.

It will be interesting to see what implications such web based products as Zoho have on microsoft ???

#17 Playing around with PBWiki

This was great to have the chance to actually edit a wiki - and very easy! Although i did make a mistake at first - I put my URL in brackets [ ] and when I viewed it the brackets were of course there i.e. my entry displayed as [http://mylearning20blog.blogspot.com/] which wasn't really correct. But it was so easy to go back and fix!

The only thing was that we needed to add the password and our email addresses which it didn't mention in the instructions.

#16 Wikis

There seems to be lots of useful implications for wikis in public libraries. I was particulary interested in the subject guide wiki http://www.libraryforlife.org/subjectguides/index.php/Main_Page. I think Wikis provide people with a way of quickly and easily adding information. This can be useful as both an internal resource for staff (such as training wikis) and also for the public. For example it got me thinking about ways a wiki could be used as a reader services tool - updating suggested reading lists/who writes like/entries about favourite authors. And this could be something that not just library staff could use but library borrowers too. I guess some people would worry about what people would add (if we let anyone add and edit entries they could put anything - not necessarily correct info...) but I think if we truly embrace web 2.0 this is about enabling everyone to be involved and you have to take some risks and have a bit of faith...

#15 library 2.0

Lots of intersting ideas - and good for anyone wondering why we are learning about web 2.0. The readings for this week really highlight why we are all learning about this and the impact it can have on our library service.
I found some good points in Into a new world of librarianship http://www.oclc.org/nextspace/002/3.htm He highlights how important it is for libraries to be user centred.
Here are some of the points about web/library/librarianship 2.0 that stood out to me

• Involves users from the get go in planning and launching services based on their needs.
• This librarian does not buy technology for the sake of technology.
• This librarian recognizes how quickly the world and library users change with advancing technology. Project timelines that stretch on for months simply do not work in Library 2.0 thinking.

#14 Technorati

Technorati definently seems useful for finding blogs - if I wanted a blog on a particular topic I would go to technorati to find something. The ability to look by posts or blogs is helpful.
When searching for learning 2.0 I found some interesting sites and even Virgo Blue from our library! The advanced search options were also helpful.

I was a little surprised by the most popular blog http://www.boingboing.net I can't imagine why this is the most popular blog of all the blogs out there??? I can't imagine I will be reading it again...

I think I am most likely to use the search option to find blogs on specific topics rather than use the popular option. Maybe this would be good for people who just want to kill a lot of time but I don't think I am that likely to just stumble on something that I find really interesting this way.

#13 Del.icio.us

I have been using Delicious for a while now and find it very handy. When I find a website i like or think i may want to look at another time i add it to delicious. It is so annoying when i am after information and i know i have seen it on the web before but can't remember where or what page or how i stumbled across it previously. Del.icio.us prevents me from having this frustration. I just go to my delicious page and i can easily access the page again. I find it especially helpfull since i am often using different pc's (sometimes at Springvale, sometimes Dandenong, sometimes outside of work) and Delicious ensures i can access these web pages from anywhere.

#12 Rollyo

I had never used Rollyo before and was surprised at how straight forward it was. I think there are lots of great implications for this. You could create your own metasearch engine. I used it to create a search tool for book reviews and also one for cd reviews. This could be a real time saver. Instead of going to several different web pages and doing the exact same search over again I can now search just once and get access to the results of many web sites. For example, when i use my book search I get results from metacritic and the guardian librarything etc.