YouTube and others

YouTube doesn't sound as new as other Web 2.0 stuff. But today is the first time I really sit down and surf it. I found a very funny video talking parrot. The parrot is a real living Einstein. Obviously I chose this vidoe because I love parrots especially the talking one. They are so clever and cute. I always dream to have one like that as a pet.

I wish I could be as powerful as Conan- the librarian (but not chopping people in half because of overdue books). Put a video script on library websites to promote Library Week, FAQ of library rules, orientation of libraries is actually a good idea. They are fun and easy to follow especially for the boring stuff (I mean rules, training etc.)

The things I don't like YouTube are some videos' quality and content are not good for our eyes (children's in particular).

Web 2.0 tools

I tried HairMixer and Comiqs from fun stuff catagory first. Here are my jobs from HairMixer. One is Owen Wilson's face mixes with Will Smith's hair. The other is the new hairstyle I choose for Angelina Jolie. lol

(I can't see any potential use of this app in library though.)

It's a shame that I couldn't publish a comics I made on Comiqs about a parrot's family because it wouldn't let me to register (although I made up my mind to do that). So can't show you today.

One tool I think will help my job is Upcoming Events. You can browse or search events in your area by dates or catagories. You can save your events, view your friends' events. The most useful part is you can advertise your events on it (still it needs register first).

Zoho Writer

Created an account on Zoho Writer (yes another one to remember). After reading the introduction file about Zoho Writer I thought I should have known this earlier. We always have customers have problems to print out from their floppy disk, people need CV templates on learnet. All these become no problems in Zoho Writer. The most amazing function I think is you can work offline if necessary and changes made during offline editing will be synced with the online version once you switch. It's more powerful and got more functions than Microsoft Word.

More task 17

Searched ABBA, one of my favourite bands on MySpace, listening to mamamia and waterloo etc. Watched couple of BBC WorldWide LoveEarth programme and some funny videos. I spent a lot of time watching though because of the slowness of broadband. One is called gaytown. I don't like Facebook signup-first policy. Kind of fed up with these signups. I alread use a word document to save all these logins from Web 2.0 training.

Then I visited Hennepin County Library. I think it is good because it has links to library website, ask librarian and a library search widget. It also has a post wall for people to comment although there aren't that many. Maybe people don't like sign up too. The picture is from comedy forums called Name 3 things you wish you hadn't done... from MySpace.

Week 7

I set up an account on Bebo (finally). The first thing grabbed my eyes is a pop-up window telling me that I have a new message. After I click check message and another window pop up saying one of my friends has crush on me. Soon it changed to 2 people got crush on me. I can see why so many people are hooked on Bebo now. Then I went to Auckland City Libraries page and got shocked by a D'mite video "Read a Book". I don't think it's a positive or proper way to persuade people reading. Then I adopted 3 bunnyheropets. They are very cute freechi(chick), freepan(panda) and freepin(penguin). Click more on right-bottom you can feed them for me.

Sent a request to add as friend to ACL and I'll get an email if she accepts it.

Library 2.0 & Web 2.0

This task makes me thinking a little bit deeply and seriously about Web 2.0 technology. I metioned before that I think Web 2.0 will not only enpower but also challenge us at the same time. On one side we want to apply as much web 2.0 techniques as possible in our websites & our online catalogue. On the other side we must not confuse our customers. A good example is mobile phone. Japanese people make it so multifunctions. But what people really need is making phone call mobility. Remember not everybody has the patience and time to explore the manual or help files. I like the idea of Michael Stephens. He thinks that "the Library is human". Librarian 2.0, then, is the “strategy guide” for helping users find information, gather knowledge and create content.

Librarian 2.0 sounds like X-men 2. Cool!!!

Technorati

I did a keyword search for “Learning 2.0” in Blog posts, in tags and in the Blog Directory in Technorati. The result is 6760/638/6577 respectively.
I noticed when I explore popular blog, searches and tags the top one blog got authority of 27,437. So I looked up the help file and found that Thechorati Authority is the number of blogs linking to a website in the last six months. The higher the number, the more Technorati Authority the blog has.
The other interesting is within the popular videos list that people are talking about right now, ordered by new links to YouTube in the last 48 hours 3 of them are Japanese. Claimed my blog and added 4 searches to watchlist. I tagged this post with Manukau