Flickr fun mashup

Montagr has many mosaics from photos, i was looking at a topic of sailboats and many interesting art type mosaics appeared. The topic of graffiti had others of interest too, you could change the colors of the pictures by clicking on various shades. The mosaic is a perfect example of a mashup, where data is combined from more than one source into an integrated unit.

Tags are essential

Tagging is important, because it gets back to the basics of Librarianship, it is essentially cataloging/indexing. Without which you can not find anything, tagging brings order to Flickr.
As people look at what you have posted they add comments, and then others add their comments and a community develops.

2.0 Awards list- Travel

I found the Real travel interesting, you have links to things to do, forums, special deals, and compare prices. All these items are of interest to the travelers
Farecast gives the user prices for flights, and has updates of knowing when to fly deals.
Kayak has all types of travel infor, from renting cars to hotels. Also has a sign up for various alerts.

Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=williamsburg+va

i enjoy williamsburg and always like looking at pictures of it.
On flickr you can organize, map and share photos. Make photos into a slide show, or create postage stamps. You can have private photos, photo dictionary, the photos help messages come alive.

Technorati

Technorati has various blog posts, tags, and blog directory. from what i can see they are postings of peoples opinions, small bits/pieces of information. at the bottom of the blog you find the tags, these seem to be key words about the blog posting, the blog directory seems to be a blog finder for people that have favorited your blog.

tagging, del.icio.us, folksonomy

this is becoming more confusing as we go along, i'm not sure if i really know why I need del.icio.us, i thought the RSS was giving you links to things you are interested in. An account had to be set up for that. Now other accounts are needed? This is making life more difficult not helping to be simpler.
all this might be good for some, but I'm starting to lose it.

social networking

I feel VBPL should use social networking to reach out to teens, in the 21st century. MySpace has 50 million accounts. Most are young people 25 and under. MySpace has more page views per day than anysite on the web except yahoo. The benefits for socialization outweigh the risks. They have music, photos, & video. Profiles are personalized, network allows people to link to a friends network through the profile they create. checking messages and getting comments is what brings people back everyday. Youth have asynchronous messaging needs MySpace complements that practice. Identity production plays out on MySpace, profiles provide opportunity to craft expression through language, media, & imagery. It is a form of cultural currency. Youth want to be popular, it is a new way to hang out, you build relationships. Youth lack mobility and access to Myspace encourages them to be online. It is controlled space. Most teen space is controlled by adults, so hence the attraction to MySpace, they need private space. They interact with a broader peer group. Youth are exploring identity formation, it is not meant to attract adults. Restricting youth to controlled spaces results in rebellion and destruction of trust. Parents should be the one restricting use. Library profile on MySpace should be useful to users not a cheesy place. We want feedback from students, we need to create a library portal within MySpace to be current with a new form of social networking.

Entry to VBPL reader advisory wiki

I added my entry to the wiki, for the first time. I had to ask someone for help, when i went to the readers advisory list, i was looking for a form to make my entry on. Then found out we just clicked where I wished to add my entry and begin typing away. It was smooth sailing after that!

Learning Wiki's, Innovative ways library can use a wiki

A Wiki is quick to build, easy to edit a website. It can be rewritten by members/users of the site. Wiki pools knowledge, anybody can write an entry. This can be good and bad, Wiki is updated by enthusiasts w/interest in the subject. Wiki is subjective influenced by opinion, one opinion on Wiki's mentioned that users should just go to a reliable source to begin with.
HTML language is not needed for a Wiki, it involves the user in an ongoing process of creation. They can be disorganized, and include spam. Wiki allows collaboration between the library and it's patrons.
A wiki is self organizing group behavior in action.
What the library can do witha Wiki:
updating subject guides, doesn't put the burden of finding websites on the librarian, annotate the catalog, patrons can add reviews to entries the library has made, libraries website becomes hub of the community & becomes one stop shopping for community info, collaborative group work, organizing group effort, and it is easy to edit anything.