Letter 5 - Tasks 11, 12, and 13 - Tagging, Library 2.0, etc.

Hello Again,

Task 11 - I explored del.ic.ous for a while and found it to be a neat little tool. I searched a few things and found some stuff I doubt I would have found otherwise. I can see how useful it is as a reference and search tool, and as a presonal bookmarking tool, it would be invaluable. I dn't use that many computers outside of my own, so I don't really need it yet, but at some point in the future, I might. I will deifnatley use this next time I need to do reasearch for something.

Task 12 - I looked through Technorati and found that different searches yielded different results. When I searched blog posts, most of them related to Learning 2.0, like we are doing, but when searching blogs in general, there was no connection, except for a few. When looking through the most popular blogs, I noticed that many of the blogs are about gadgets and technology. Other then that, the topics were pretty varied. This is a good tool if you like to read blogs and want to keep track of the ones you have, or to find new blogs to read.

Task 13 - To me, Library 2.0 is the expansion of existing knowledge and resources, integrated with the social aspect of interpersonal relations. It eventually becomes less about the resources and more about the people. The exchange of informaton is whats at the heart of it all, and what a library will always be about.

-The Mailman