# 16 Library 2.0 & WEb 2.0 - 7 to go!

I don't know when I started counting off the tasks. I'm sure that it signifies something, probably not anything positive though so I'll get on with the task at hand.

I found 'Away from the “icebergs”' the most interesting of the perspectives in the OCLC Newsletter. What Rick Anderson said about library collection usage falling, and about the libraries' monopoly power in the information marketplace was fascinating. It will be interesting to see how the libraries of the future will function and to see what exactly will be in them...

To week 7 and beyond.

Technorati Tagging #15 - 8 to go

I pretty much hate Technorati. I can't work it, i may just be completely stupid, no need to agree, but I can't figure it out which annoys me, because I can figure most things out.

So I'm considering #15 (Week 6) Getting not-so-technical with Technorati done because I've tried really hard but I just can't make it happen.

The end.

Week 6 - Delicious

Delicious is really neat. I set up my own account, they're not very exciting as bookmarks go, most of them are work related, but here is the link anyway http://delicious.com/raggamuffin83. It's quite a good tool, with the tags, it makes it easier to search.

You can also find loads of other sites using the tags, ones that other people have tagged, which could be useful if you're looking for a pile of sites on anything in particular.

Mangere East Saturday Madness

Wow so I came to Mangere East for some quiet Web 2.0 learning on a Saturday morning, to get away from the distractions of work, but wow, it's like a day care. Where are these kids parents? I mean, it's choice that they love the library, but they're out of control, and I can guarantee that if they behaved this way at home they'd be getting a clip round the ears from mother and father!

I've developed a new respect for the library staff. They work crazily hard to put up with 9 year olds with attitudes like they're 16.

Anywho, the point of this blog... I just had a play in the sand box and posted some favourite things between being distracted by kids shouting PEOW PEOW ZHOO ZHOO GOOSH E-E-E-E-E-E-E YESS!!!!! which are apparently part of how you play computer games.

So... week 5 eh?

Wikis are neat, although I have problems with them in that I don't trust that any old joe bloggs is going to know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that what he's writing in there is true.

The opinion ones are quite good, such as the book lovers wiki, because that is opinion and it's meant to be, whereas I could go in and make up anything about anything and pretend that it's true. Then some poor unsuspecting person from the other side of the world might be doing a project about whatever I wrote about and fail because they believe the garbage that I said. Get it?

I'm going to make an excursion to Mangere East Library on the weekend, it's ma local, and use one of their learn.net computers so I can get ahead. oooooo tricky tricky!!! Actually it's probably not my local, but i like it.... a lot.