#14 Getting not-so-technical with Technorati

I did a keyword search for Learning 2.0 and found 17,593 posts, 879 blogs, and 1,454 tags. It's overwhelming to say the least, but I explored a few and found The Bamboo Project blog and an article which caught my attention - "Don't Want to Look Stupid in Front of Your Customers? Start Playing with Social Media Inside Your Organization.
I searched popular blogs and found boingboing.net's blog. A couple of items caught my attention, particularly a link to phone company recordings archives at
http://www.payphone-directory.org/sounds.html

#13 Tag! You're It

I read us.ef.ul, a beginner's guide to The Next Big Thing, which helped explain in easy terms why I should be using del.icio.us. It makes sense to me and so I signed up for a del.icio.us account. I have tons of bookmarks at home, but find that I rarely look at them. Now, I'll be able to access useful children's picture book, reference sites, etc. from work. It seems more manageable to me.

I was surprised to find that ALSC was the only children's bookmark found on the ql things page. I thought there would be more. I searched ql things/teens and found a YALSA podcast featuring an interview with Anastasia Goodstein about her book, Totally Wired: What Teens and Tweens are Really Doing Online. Also found Library Youth and Teen Services 2.0 blog.

#9 Feeding Frenzy

I'm trying to catch up today. As far as feeds go I prefer topix.net and technorati.

Topix
-nice layout.
-user-friendly
-easy to search most popular/top stories.

Technorati
-nice layout
-user-friendly
-easy to search posts, blogs, videos and photos. I liked that technorati gives you the option of searching popular and top favorited blogs

I did a search on picture books (26,746 items) and was happy to find onemorebook.com's podcast about children's books.

Syndic8.com
-didn't like the layout, thought it was confusing.

Feedster-went to feedster but it wasn't up. Received the message that "we'll be back soon". Maybe next time...

#18 Let's Collaborate & have a good time

I've got to say that this headline is bringing back lots of memories for me. Anyway, I signed up for Thinkfree but didn't like it. I kept getting error messages and was not able to type a document. I also tried looking at examples and they wouldn't load. I gave up. Writeboard was very easy to use. I wrote a small document, saved it, then went back and edited it. It's easy to identify changes made to a document which would be useful for group projects, brainstorming ideas, working on presentations, etc.

#19 Discovering Web 2.0

I explored the list of Web 2.0 nominees and winners and
millionmasterpiece.com, described as "the world's largest collaborative arts project", caught my attention. I recently started learning to draw, and this project seems like fun. People from all over the world are sending in their doodles and artwork to help create one large piece of art. I think it would be fun to participate in the project - be a part of something that's making news.

#20 YouTube

I explored YouTube and spent part of the afternoon watching music videos. I was excited to find a live 1984 video of the Style Council singing "You're the best thing". This video is special to me because I asked the dj to play it at my wedding back in 1988. Although the marriage didn't last, the song remains one of my all time favorites. I tried to include it in this post but for some reason it's not working, and I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. Anyway, it's a beautiful song. I also watched some videos of watercolor painting and making origami frogs and stars. YouTube has some great instructional videos posted. As far as YouTube's usefulness on library websites, maybe QL could post some basic instructional videos for customers about what we offer.

#12 Roll your own search engine

Rollyo is useful. I found it was simple to create a search roll. I'm sure this will help at work, since I always intend to create lists of links that I find useful, but don't always get around to organizing. I created a simple search roll for children's books with five sources. Here's the link: http://rollyo.com/nasin/childrens_books