#20 You too can YouTube

I enjoyed this task more than I expected to, once had worked out how to find my way around. Found some great old cartoons, beautiful artworrk. Especially enjoyed Tales from fat tulips garden. Starring a youthful Tony Robinson (worst jobs in the world, black adder and so on). I've copied tale of two frogs but there are lots of others.

#19 Discovering Web 2.0 tools

I visited several Web 2.0 tools. Its certainly an amazing range. Google maps looked really good, and useful in the library when people want maps of places they are travelling too. I also looked at widgits which I found sort of overwhelming, so much to choose from. The final one, which I really liked was Lulu, a site that allows you to publish your own digital copy of a book. There were some really interesting titles being self-published and even some being bought! Some of the travel, events and organising ones looked good too. Craig's list was good too, a sort of Trading post for nearly every city in the world.

#18 Web-based Apps: They're not just for desktops

This one just didn't work for me. I set up an account but after several tries I couldn't get it past the 'Loading....." ! I think my browser, Safari, is not compatible with this site. So I got the gist but couldn't do anything practical. Frustrating because this one could be useful, especially in the library for people writing resmumes and work applications. They could save to this and not have to worry about discs or memory sticks.

#17 Playing around with PBWiki

I had fun looking at how wikis are created and learning more about how they work. I can really see wikis taking a bigger and bigger part of information on the net. Interesting to see how different ones work. I registered my blog on the PBwiki Learning 2.0 and saw how many others were already registered. I have been using some wikis with some research I have been doing recently, but have found its important to know something about the topic first, so I can make a judgement about the accuracy on the wiki (like so much other stuff on the web!)
On a different topic, it was great to see when checking my bloglines that Kingston Library is the first Australian library on LibraryThing. "Now when you search on their catalogue, not only will you get all the usual titleISBN stuff, you also get tags, similar titles, and other editions. Hurrah for Kingston for being so very Library2.0! 2." Very exciting.

#16 So what’s in a wiki?

I found looking at all the wikis really interesting and as usual it seems that the potential is almost limitless. It would be great to have wikis about all our local communities listing and reviewing places to go and things to see, established and maintained by the locals. I also found the idea of having library catalogues that could be added to by the borrower really really exciting. What a great collaborative tool. I'd be happy to start up the first one one gardening books in the library and gardening resources in our community! I can also see the down side if someone deliberately vandalises a site. It must be hard sometimes to find the balance between open access and maintaining a credible site,

#15 On Library 2.0 & Web 2.0 ...

Loved the Blogpoly board and the articles on the future of the library. Especially Away from Icebers, and To a Temporary Place in Time. The idea of libraries as conversations is really interesting and the potential for the future is seemingly limitless. Its been great to explore all the exercises on the the Web and get an inkling of what the future might hold for libraries (and the rest of the world). As is said in some of the articles, it is essential that while leaping forward to embrace the future that we don't loose sight of what is good in the past and the present especially the library described at the end of To a Temporary Place "the LIBRARY: a WiFREE space, a retreat from technohustle, with comfortable chairs, quiet, good light, coffee and single malt. You know, the library." We all need those spaces sometimes. And we also need to not miss the little things at the same time as reaching to grasp the big picture. This picture is of some of the little things in my world.

#14 Getting not-so-technical with Technorati

I followed the process through with this one and agree that if your blog is full of interesting things (like boing boing - i really liked this 'most popular' blog) that it might be worth tagging things so that others can see what you are writing about. But as I have felt right from the beginning I can't really see why anyone else would want to read my blog. So I didn't add any tags or claim my blog but again may go back and look at this again. The fourth most popular blog on technorati amused me. It is 'Lifehacker, tips and downloads for getting things done' with 1,971 members. My thought was that if we didn't all spend so much time on the Web then we wouldn't need tips for getting things done, 'cos we'd have more time anyway!