Week 6, Tagging, Folksononies, and Technorati

After exploring Del.icio.us I feel that I would use it to create bookmarks (not so much for socializing), which would be easier since it can be accessed from a site and, of course the best part for a librarian, it can be organized, organized, organzied! You design your own "Dewey" system by filtering your bookmarks with keywords. While visiting the PLCMCL2 link, I was interested in the video bookmark. I came across the DailyMotion, which is another form of Youtube. I found some really good library video clips. I also examined the Allegany County Public Library Del.icio.us site in which reference was the largest tag bundle.

Once entering the Technorati site, I was very overwhelmed by the page setup. After playing, I could do a keyword search for Learning 2.0. My outcome was Blog posts (5,066), tags (303), and Blog Directory (7,339), a big difference! The top favorite blog was Breaking News and Opinion on The Huffington Post (23,980) with other top blogs being TechCrunch (14,551), Engadget (13,872), Boing Boing (11,174 - which I am familiar), and Mashable! (9,789 - also familiar due to Web 2.0). Top searches were taskbar, news, environment, jennifer garner, and men. My favorite thing learned was the term "blogosphere".

I read the articles "Web 2.0: Where Will the Next Generation of the Web Take Libraries?", "Away from the Icebergs", and "Into a New World of Librarianship". To me, Library 2.0 means a building where socialnetworking is center in order to develop better understandings, communications, and resources to further knowledge. This is exactly what libraries are today, yet in the future there will be much more technology resources. Library collections that are hands-on will be smaller, with more virtual links meeting demands. The Internet library allows for more needs to be met by the user, than having the right book on the shelf. This speeding shift change will require more education for users, different demands for qualified librarians, and innovative ways to pull users into the "socialnetworking center", instead of remaining at home.