#17 Playing around with PB wiki

I had a good look and read pages and comments.
As for adding the link to my blog, there was no Edit button. It must have been removed by someone over-collaborating by mistake.

#16 Wikis

Wikis are good for collaboration.
Although I was part of a study wiki for 20 weeks last year, it's good to see the common features of other wikis, and read the background to them.

There are three ways of sharing information that come to mind: wikis, forums and blogs.
Wikis have the article or main page separated from a discussion page. This is good.

Blogs are more time-bound. I think they'd be not so useful for eg exploring a library collection.

Not sure about forums. Perhaps heavily question-based?

#15 Library 2.0 and Web 2.0

I liked the article Away from the icebergs, reminding us to aim for a service that is collaborative rather than one-sided. The shrinkage of Reference collections follows this trend, as do lower traffic and enquiries stats.
There is a wealth of fast information and answers to be had by digital networking, but we still must be careful about the authority of such information.

#14 Technorati

Technorati is a better search engine for blogs than , say, Google, because it can search in varied ways: by keyword in a post, or a whole tagged blog (a blog dedicated to a topic).

Furthermore it searches by "authority" iethe number of other blogs that link to the one that responds to your search, and by "rank" where the authority is ranked against other blogs responding to the same keyword. So the rank is relative to the search keyword used.

I haven't yet tagged either of my blogs.

#13 Del.icio.us

This is a way of keeping track of Bookmarks when away from my pc.
And of finding other links gathered under the same tag.
It's a bit like a CATALOGUE AUTHORITY FILE!
Del.icio.us has a clean site, clear of ads.
I transfered a couple of entries from my own Bookmarks, which gave a better understanding.

#9 Finding Feeds

I used Feedster, that was broken and Topix, that was American, then Bloglines Search to find library sites that offered news feeds or blog posts. I chose NLA and ALIA. they are now integrated into my general and personal Bloglines account.

#12 Roll your own search engine with Rollyo

Hi,
I've added a small Rollyo on ... bicycles. Why not.
See the bottom right section.
Thanks to my wonderful, somnolent son for keeping me on track with prods.