Thing 19: Web 2.0 Awards

I enjoyed looking at many of the awards winners and nominees. A few of the winners we have already learned about during this 23 thing training. I have also found Biblio, a used book site, and Medstory, a health site, and the real estate guide informative and interesting. And I know my boys would enjoy Flickr and and any of the game sites.

Thing 18 Google Docs

After opening an account in Google docs, I just typed a recipe and put in a folder. This may be a good way for family members to keep handy those handed down recipes and insert notes about their personal changes to the basic recipe and not be concerned about sending the changes to whoever or about losing the recipe.

Thing 16 and 17: Wikis

I'm familiar with Wikipedia. I'm not too thrilled that anyone can edit a wiki with possible incorrect information and that it is open to vandalism and spam. But I do think it would be good for booklists and maybe procedure updates for work.

Here is my wiki:
http://marylandlibrariessandbox.pbwiki.com/Winter

Thing 14: Technorati and Thing 15: Web 2.0

When I searched by keyword, the result was 6319 blog posts. Searching tags results in fewer blogs, only 624. Exploring the directory was interesting. Such a variety of information from so many people. I'm impressed if the blogs popping up every 5-7 seconds were new to each tag.
I read Away from the icebergs by Rich Anderson and To a temporary place in time by Wendy Schultz. The role of libraries and librarians have certainly changed a great deal since I started work for HCL 30 years ago. Books, plenty of books, was the main focus. Technology has changed the main focus from getting the information, sometimes dated, from books. It has opened up a world of endless information that is constantly being changed and updated. Librarians need to "go with the flow" to keep relevant.

Thing 13: Del.icio.us

Ok, I find that I am overwhelmed with any and all information at this point.
Odd name for social information site. I still consider a piece of cake delicious!!

Thing 12: Rollyo

I added a few sites that I liked and did some searching to add a couple more. I find that searching is fast, easy and I'm pleased with the results.
I expect to be doing more searches and adding more sites as I find them.

Thing 11: LibraryThing

Setting up my account was easy and I found LibraryThing easy to use. I have 2 main interests, cooking and antiques, and I like the fact that I can pull up so many titles of each and some I had not known about.
Just view http://www.librarything.com/catalog/greenmhclibrary to see a few.