THING #14

My searches for "learning 2.0" yielded different results. Searching the blog posts yielded 400 blog posts (it narrowed the results by authority and language). Searching the tags was the most broad search with 3,570 blog posts, 196 blogs and listings for videos and photos. The blog directory only searched blogs and yield the same results (196) as the tags search.
I was not particularly surprised at the lists of favorited blog, top searches or top blogs. Curiosities, money and technology reviews were the top three favorited blogs. The top blogs listed some of the same or similar as on the favorited blogs. The top searches - celebrities, Utube and new technology crop up regularly. All in all what I would expect.

THING #13

My first thoughts about tagging and Del.icio.us was how useful it would be for seminars and lifelong learning courses. It allows all students to access relevant articles by tag and also permits the instructor or the student to comment on the articles. What a great idea! It would also allow one to keep up on a subject of personal interest and to comment to others about it.

THING #12

Creating a search tool with Rollyo was easy. Great for creating search on subject or theme- based searches. Useful for both personal and work related subjects. Here is my link: http://www.rollyo.com/dr012/

THING #11

This was fun! Just thinking about some of my favorite books felt good. The librarysuggester was really a great tool for next reads and thoughts by other readers.http://www.librarything.com/catalog/dr01

THING #10

I was amazed at the variety of images. I had a bit of trouble getting the image button to work, but changing from Firefox to Explorer fixed the problem. This image continues the cute kitty theme.

THING #9

The method of finding feeds that I found the easiest to use was Bloglines Search tool. Perhaps because I had used the Bloglines website previously that it seemed familiar somehow. When I searched libraries I got 7,590 feeds and looking through the first several pages, they seemed relevant and interesting. Feedster allowed me to search by category but seemed to bring up everything remotely concerned with libraries. Topix.net seemed best suited for news by geographical area. Syndic8.com was not easy to read and results were confusing. Too technical for the average user. Technorati gave overwhelming numbers of results but the videos and photos were interesting to peruse. It struck me that there are an enormous number of feeds on every subject imaginable!

THING #8

I really like having up to the minute news, weather and library info available to me on my desktop. Some of the news I would either miss or would hear about at a much later date. Once I figured out how to add feeds it is very easy and convenient way to keep up in library land and the world in general. Once again technology finds a better way to communicate.