Week 6, #13, 14, 15 (tagging, folksonomies & technorati future of the lib)

what is that? never heard of that.

I may have done this already, but I am doing it again. I like to learn twice.

Week 6: Tagging, Folksonomies & Technorati
13. Learn about tagging and discover Del.icio.us (a social bookmaking site)
Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking manager which allows you to bookmark a web page and add tags to categorize your bookmarks.

Many users find that real power of Del.icio.us is in the social networking aspect, which allows you to see how other users have tagged similar links and also discover other websites that may be of interest to you. You can think of it as peering into another users’ filing cabinet, but with this powerful bookmarking tool each user's filing cabinet helps to build an expansive knowledge network.For this discovery exercise, you are asked to take a look at Del.icio.us and learn about this popular bookmarking tool.
www.lifehack.org/articles/­lifehack/ten-ways-to-improve-yo... I bookmark this website.

14. Explore Technorati and learn how tags work with blog posts. I explored Technorati and learned how tags work with blog posts. I will come back to this later.
I AM BACK.............
Technorati
I played around with Technorati and I didn't find this website useful as the others. When I searched for "sjlibrary23" it pulled up all our blogs and ones that mentioned Learning 2.0. However, when did a search for "cat," it pull up blogs about the animal to someone buying a cat costume. I you would have to specifically know what you are looking for in order to effectively use Technorati to search for blogs.


15. Read a few perspectives on Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and the future of libraries and blog your thoughts.

Jim Giles, “Internet encyclopaedias go head to head.” A controversial and influential study finding Wikipedia and Brittanica entries to have comparable error rates. Nature December 2005-March 2006. Access: http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051212/full/438900a.html.
I am overwhelm of all the information found in the Web 2.0 Future of Libraries.

This completes week 6, things 13, 14 and 15.

I am getting there.