Daffodils, by Wordsworth

I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o'er vales and hills

When all at once I saw a crowd

A host of golden daffodils

Beside the lake, beneath the trees

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Week 7, thingy 17

Now that I have posted stuff on 2 different wikis (I put the Most Borrowed report link on the ccd wiki a couple of times a month), I feel very comfortable with the process. I think the PB Wiki is more user-friendly than the ccd one, actually. I put my blog under 'favorite blogs' and put a link to Rick Steves' travel web site under favorite web sites.

Week 7, thingy 16

Wow-- I learned a lot via the various resources, including what 'wiki' means in Hawaiian, that the first wiki was in 1995, and that there are lots of places you can house your wiki. When deciding on the best place, you should consider RSS-- a week ago I wouldn't have known what that meant! The resources listed in the resources are 2005 and older, so there's probably much more recent material out there.
I can see using wikis for lots of things including conventions. But I wonder if the level of knowledge and comfort with them is broad enough, or if some people still would go to the traditional web page information rather than participating in a wiki.
The SJCPL subject guides are nice-- guess the librarians all participate in making recommendations and the wiki is used by the public and by the librarians. If I were a libarian there, I would add a hobby section on gardening!
Library Success has a subject on Project Planning, but nothing on statistics except 'Demonstrating Impact, Value, and ROI.' Not much there, and it hasn't been updated since December 2006.

Week 6, thingy 15

Very interesting! 'The machine is us/ing us' was fascinating, creative, fun, and great music. I thought 'away from icebergs' was going to be about global warming, but it's about potential disasters. All 3 potential disasters are thought-provoking, especially no more 'just in case' collections because information is available in other media than print.
It was good to see a picture of blogger Michael Stephens after seeing his name so often. I especially liked what he said about meeting user needs, related to the needs assessment work we have been doing. And I like 'make good, fast decisions.'

Week 6, thingy 14

Well, it's so hot today that I'm not out in the garden. Technorati is pretty amazing, but I couldn't get the Technorati Tour video to run even after installing QuickTime. I did learn enough to decide not to do the tagging or claiming so my blog can be found more easily. I have already received an unsolicited email about making my blog more effective and since this blog is just for fun and practice, I don't want it to be found very easily.
ANYWAY, I did the 'learning 2.0' search in advanced search. Found 3630 results (including my posts) in the keyword search, but just 41 blog posts tagged with 'learning 2.0.' The blog directory had no blogs tagged with 'learning 2.0.' In the top searches, I wasn't surprised to see 'iphone' or 'Paris Hilton', but was curious about 'razultate.' Looks like an Italian or Spanish (one of those romance languages) place with soccer (football) scores? I was interested to see Post Secret in the top blogs and interested to learn the difference between top blogs and favorite blogs.

Week 6, thingy 13

I was convinced about the usefulness of del.icio.us during the podcast/video instruction when she gave an example of looking for articles for research, then following the tagging trail to other people and resources. The PLCMCL2 place had lots of resources about IM reference (for example) including links to libraries that do IM reference, related articles, and types of Im-ing software. Also there was a link to Learning 2.0 thoughts = people reflect on the experience. I checked out del.icio.us, searched for 'cat', and got 50,609 results including a site called 'cats in sinks.' It is one photo after another of cats in sinks-- why am I not surprised that there is such a place? Followed a couple of the other tags on the cat places (pets, funny) and got to all sorts of NOT cat-related places. Went back to the d home page looking for 'popular' places saved by lots of people and found an article on web copyright. Other tags appear on that article i.e. blog, law, rules, as do comments by other people who had been to this place.

Week 5, thingy 12

Let's see if this works. It isn't totally obvious on Rollyo how to make, save, and share. I finally found the sharing part under 'tools.' Here, maybe, is my Scandinavia Travel rollyo...
Shoot, I think I have to make it 'public' for it to show up. How do I do that? OK, you can do it under 'manage searchrolls.' Let me try that again...
THIS is my Scandinavia Travel rollyo...
DONE! As my Scandinavia trip approaches and I am gathering information, I can search all these sites at once!