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

Tagging

Tagging sounds like a very poplular word nowadays. We have teen's tagging (most of them are damaging). We have RFID tagging (legal but a lot of checking jobs for staff). Now we have website tagging or social bookmarking (now we rely on internet or computers even more!).
Anyhow I learned how to tag my favourite pages on Del.icio.us by creating my account, intalling buttons on my IE. Did a little bit search. Guess what there are 28741 items tagged with "Web 2.0". 118 tagged with Manukau including Manukau libraries Catalogue.
This reminds me the over-one-page long favourite lists on our library computers especially with generic logons' branch. With social bookmarking technology's help staff will find their own favourite useful sites easily.
By the way I really like delicious' free-form, seperated with space words searching method.

More Wikis

After I watched couple of videos about how to use Wikis and visited Manukau Libraries Wiki. Added my favourite numbers, holiday destinations, music and a new page of favourite tasks of Web 2.0 training. I feel like a chief editor. Powerful eh! But somebody may delete my page. But that's exactly the beauty of Wikis. Anybody have the same authority to the websites. When I was doing the editing a question came up my mind: what if more than two people try to edit the same page?

Wikis

The first time I heard about Wikipedia I thought the name maybe related to "kiwi" in some way. Now I know Wiki means something fast in Hawaiian. Wikis does make us communicate or organize faster than sending emails to each other. I like the video demonstrating wikis. It makes the learning so easy and simple.
From SJCPL Subject Guides I found a bird society in Indiana.
Just like the video shows us that Wikis is very good at organizing or coordinating a project such as ALA 2006 New Orleans Wiki. This Wiki provides a guide to the conference. I think it's a fantastic idea. I wonder if somebody can do a similar wiki for this year's NZ library conference at Auckland to help librarians from other cities or countries find their way easily.
The other good application of Wikis is (let me call it) Community square where people can share their book reviews, other community information or just tips of everyday life.
Last but not least I think we can use Wikis for our staff online learning and training. How about a Web 2.0 Wikis where staff can share their skills or tricks they learned from this training.
Thank Web20 training give me a completely fresh view of Wikipedia.

Technology related

It's really an eye-opening training for me to do this Web2.0 training. I've learned a lot. I knew Googleearth before this training and I used it to find house pictures all over the world. To use Googleearth you have to download a software to your computer and then you can get a really clear photo of any house you're looking for. Now I know Google Maps and Wikicrimes etc. I knew there are lots of information available on internet and we can use search engines to search them. Now I know above these information appear those searching tools with Mashup technology to enpower or challenge us. How much information we can get from internet depends on how well we're good at using these tools!

More Flickr

Played around with some Flickr third party tools or games. The one intrigues me is Wikicrimes. It's a website where internet users can report crimes by placing pins on a GoogleMaps based map. The website classifies crimes as Robbery, Theft or Other by pin colour. I wonder if this connects to the police or if police use them in real life.
Created one Trading card for myself and uploaded to Flickr. Don't know how to move it to the Librariantradingcards cluster though. Also created a badge to remember this Web 2.0 training.

Read through the explanation of mashups on Wikipedia. Not quite sure what it's talking about.