#17 Playing with PBWiki

Have managed to add my name on the list. Could be a good fun way of staff communicating to each other about ideas.

#16 Wikis

Have had a look at quite a few of things and can see that they could be used in a library contest - particularly for book discussion groups. Would also be a great way to get people involved in reviewing books and highlighting what they are reading. I do agree that the strengths of a wiki can also be the major weaknesses. The fact that I can make up some kind of weird cure for cancer and put it out there for all to read, without the need to be able to back up my claims worries me. No matter how good an editor of a wiki is it will still be open for abuse. We do, however, have to remind ourselves that not all published books are correct either!

#15 Web 2.0 and libraries

I think that what Web 2.0 highlights to us is just how quickly techology is changing - it is changing right before our very eyes. Who knows where this will lead us in the future, but we have to learn how to harness it and use it to our advantage. Gone are the days of complicated programming strings - now primary school children can contribute to the Web just as easily as a university graduate. I think that the days of us thinking that the book is going to disappear have gone, but technology and recreation do go hand in hand. People want to read and learn but they also want to talk about it......

#14 Technorati

Found this site to be quite interesting. I would imagine that if you were heavily into blogging and commenting on other people's blogs this would be a little bit addictive. Useful if you are desperate to find out someone else's opinion on something. For me personally, can't see myself obsessing about this.

Delicious

Have had a bit of a look around here - some really good stuff! Have added to my tool bar at home, at least I will know which ones are my bookmarks now.

#12 continued

Didn't like the last link, so trying another!!

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#12 Rollyo

Could be quite useful for grouping like searches and also for keeping things that you always search together. Seems to be quite user friendly.
Hope that the link works.
http://www.rollyo.com/traceyo/