Exercise #10

Library 2.0

The core message in the perspectives about Library 2.0 is that libraries must stay relevant and up-to-date, as they always have done, or risk being left behind and becoming redundant. Now, however, we are seeing dramatic change in the delivery and sharing of information, using technology which is rapidly developing. Libraries must keep up or even strive to be one step ahead so they are ready to serve their community.
Dr Wendy Schultz looks further into the future and talks about Library 3.0 and even Library 4.0. It all sounds very exciting and quite mind-boggling, but I hope we will still retain the personal customer interaction that we have today.

Exercise #9

I have been looking at Technorati and have found it quite staggering how many bloggers there are, and how huge the blogosphere is. I think this site is reasonably easy to search for what you want.
Searching for Web 2.0, as the exercise asked us to, yielded interesting results like this: Blog posts 119, 133; Blogs 15,875. Both Blogs and Posts had 10 related tags, all with thousands of entries. The actual Web.2.0 tag yielded 32,171 hits. When I entered Web 2.0 into the Blog directory there were loads of pages of hits, but no actual number of results was given. The same goes for searches under Photos and Videos - plenty of hits, but no specific number. I wonder why.
I don't know if I'll use Technorati when this programme is over, but as a starting point for searching blogs it would be very useful.

Exercise #8

I have taken a look at delicious, in particular the bookmarked site http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/index.xml
which has absolutely amazing photos from the Olympics opening ceremony. It's quite interesting to see how many people have bookmarked a site and how many have left notes.
Delicious is another way of sharing your favourite sites with the community and is an easy way to see what other people find interesting.
Also this is the first time I have created a link and it's worked!

Rotorua, Lake Rotoehu 002

Rotorua, Lake Rotoehu 002, originally uploaded by Rickbecroft2008.

Cloudy day at the lake, good for fishing.

Exercise #7

I found this exercise a little confusing - too much information perhaps. I seemed to be darting from one site to another trying to establish which feeds I wanted to subscribe to. I found the easiest way was to copy the URL of the site in to the subscribe box. As to how useful this will be, well to be honest I don't think I will be using Bloglines much at all. However for people who like to get all their information from the internet, having your own page of personalised sites would undoubtedly be very time-saving.

Moonlight Daffodils

Moonlight Daffodils, originally uploaded by Jim-AR.

I thought this was an unusual picture of daffodils at nighttime - and I actually quite enjoy looking at Flickr and sending pictures to my blog.

Second game

The team's second game followed the same pattern as the first - a loss of 14-3. The opposition were much better and faster getting the ball down to their goal. Our spirits are high though and we're all looking forward to next week's game.