#17

The Wiki Sandbox might have been fun, but it was complicated to use due to having to wait long periods of time to get on the site. It kept saying that someone was already in the site, but I was on the phone getting help from that person and he had already gotten out and completely closed the browser and everything and the site (trying to add my blog to the favorites) remained tied up for over 6 minutes. Things that make you go "hmmmm".

Tried to figure out how to add my favorite book, but could not figure it out. ???? Overall, I ended up giving up on it. The description sounded fun, but it was not easy to use. So for someone like me, that means it wasn't all that useful. Bummer.

#16

The wikis are very interesting and I think out of the 5 suggested ones in our assignment, my favorite two were the The Bull Run Library wiki and the Book Lovers Wiki. Both were very..."human interest", I guess is what I liked about them.

My main concern about wikis in a research aspect would be that - as I understood it -- anyone can go in and edit them. I think that is problematic because (1) it would just add to the overwhelming amount of information out there and (2) you could never quite be sure that you were getting accurate information.

#15

I think that Library 2.0 has many benefits. However, after reading all 5 of the perspectives, the part that I think all these technologically savvy people are forgetting is the HUMAN aspect. I think we human beings that work in the library are becoming even important because we are going from large "paper" collections into an age of people being able to just type a few keys and access information on the computer...but it's even more gianormous and confusing than learning how to look up call numbers! And I for one don't think it's necessarily better! I've found that through all these new technologies, I'm more confused than ever. It's highly unorganized and seemingly unmediated and therefore even more difficult to locate what you are looking for. I think it's going to be more important to have a human being to turn to to say, "help!" when the avalanche of useless information buries you.

#14

The Technorati was okay, but not something I think I'll use all that much. I really enjoyed seeing some of the popular videos on it, such as the Prison Inmates doing Thriller and that Tay "person" (who looked like a girl but sang like a boy) singing Chocolate Rain, which was actually a really cool song!

When I did the Learning 2.0 searches, I got a lot of 'hits' (for lack of a better term), but much of it seemed inaccurate to what I was actually looking for. I got a lot about hp printers and a whole variety of things, including stuff about strip poker on a later page, so I wasn't impressed with that exercise. HOWEVER, I did some searches of my own and looked up some personal interest things and found several blogs relating to those topics, so that meant more to me. However, I'm not all that into going to OTHER people's sites and reading THEIR opinions about things. That's just not my thing...it's way too time consuming and I have more than enough other stuff to do, you know? I didn't link my own blog to technorati because it seemed to be optional, so I opted not to. Hope that's okay!

#13

I thought that the Del.icio.us website was kinda cool. But I still think that having an account like this is time consuming and redundant. I can't imagine anyone else caring what I like to have bookmarked. So to take all the time to set this account up is sort of a waste when I already have my favorites bookmarked on in my Favorites list in Internet Explorer. That's more than sufficient to locate my bookmarks. Certain things have shortcuts on my desktop...those are the ones I use a lot. To go in and then duplicate all that in a Del.icio.us account seems like a waste of time.

#12

I can't see me using Rollyo, probably because I don't research that much. If I was constantly having to look up similar information and needed to keep it straight for research purposes, I can see where Rollyo would definitely come in handy. On the rare occasions that I would need to find information on the web, however, I would probably just Google what I needed.

#11

LibraryThing was very cool! I was able to set up an account and get several of my favorite's cataloged in my list - namely Harry Potter series and Stephanie Plum series. It will be nice to keep a running list of favorite books because often I remember the storyline, but I'll forget the author & title and then I can't find a book again.

#10

I found Pimp-My-Profile at http://www.pimp-my-profile.com/graphics/list.php?nh=40&cat=5&cname=Funny+Pictures&kw= and had a blast viewing the funniest pictures I have ever seen. Unlike many of the others, I WILL use this site to Pimp-My-Profiles on MySpace and Facebook for things like the Ugliest Dang Dog I've Ever Seen, and Fluffy, Destroyer of Worlds!

#9

I really like the Topix newsfeed! I found a lot of information that actually pertained to me or my area of life and that's unusual. Usually everything is worldly and I don't care about it. But the very first thing I found was about that SUV that knocked the OU Grad student off the Richland Ave. Bridge ... and since my sister was a witness to the accident, it actually pertained to MY life. Amazing!

#8 RSS

This RSS stuff is completely cool and pretty time consuming to set up. But I think I've finally gotten the hang of it. I think.
I'm not much of a news-hound. Actually, I pretty much avoid most current event news, as it is usually fairly depressing and I prefer to live within my own bubble of existence. I don't need to spend sleepless nights pondering the latest war-news or the most recent slaughter of innocence.
But I enjoy keeping up with my friends' blogs and it's pretty cool to subscribe to their blogs! I subscribed to local weather and that library cartoon Unshelved. In time I might find some other things to subscribe to, and I will probably keep up with this account!