Where's my camera?

OK so we went to Cumberland Island for the day to see the incredible scenery and wild horses. It was beautiful. The salt Marshes, Carnegies home(whats left of it) and the horses,just being horses grazing and enjoying life. But I can't show you this lovely place because I did not have a camera with me. I know, who goes without a camera? So enjoy this blank space and try to picture the splendor of the island.
http://www.nps.gov/cuis/ Link to the park .

#16 Wiki

Wiki OK I have read all the info on Wiki. I looked into the ALA 2006 New Orleans Wiki and saw the meeting schedule for the conference. I then went to Book Lovers which I understand is not currently being updated. The site was left open to show what they had done with it and the reviews but now the reviews are kept on another site. I then looked at Library Success and read about the wonders that Wiki can do for a library. (not really) If I recall that site seemed to me to be the same as maybe the normal web site for a library.

I must say that here is where I admit my defeat to technology. Honestly at this point I am not sure how people use all these different sites. The RSS feeds, Blogs, Web page, Wiki...after a while they all seem to be offering the same info. I feel this is one of those left brain right brain things and I am using the wrong brain. I feel when I am looking through the sites it is just gibberish to me. I go through the list of JPL participants clicking on my fellow bloggers sites and I am in awe.
I do look forward to getting through the next 7 lessons and forcing myself to go and face my fear.

# 15 On Library 2.0 & Web 2.0

Libraries are not merely in communities, they are communities: they preserve and promote community memories; they provide mentors not only for the exploration of stored memory, but also for the creation of new artifacts of memory. What was the library of the past?
I took this passage from Web 2.0: Where will the next generation of the web it take libraries? To a temporary place and time.Not being a librarian some of the article lost me but the man point, the gyst that we continue to service our communities into the age of technology. Peolpe will always need each other to move forward and the library definitely fills the nitch.

# 14 Technorati

Technorati was interesting. the ability to once again use key words to search is what I am all about. I was unable to find my blog on Technorati so I went ahead and claimed my blog on them.

Now the not sogreat stuff. When I tried to search "Learning 2.0" I did not find anything related to this course. I must admit though I did not go into all the pages but the first couple did not pull up what I was looking for. So the up and down side is the easy search and yet you do not always get what you are looking for.

# 13 Tagging, Folksonomies...Del.icio.us

I could definitely see the potential for research with this site. Within the Duval library system this would save re-inventing the wheel. Someone is working on a project that another Librarian researched 3 months ago. They could say go in to our account at Del.icio.us and pull some of the stuff I found. Now the only draw back is that to me you would need to know what tag they put it under. Everyone has there own way of looking at their info. and they might have it in a tag you would never have put it under.
Yes many of the tags did look familiar to me as they were things we have covered during this class. I even found a fun Flickr slide show on librarians.

The reward of sticking with JPL2.0

How sweet is this? THIS MAKES IT ALL WORTHWHILE. I love this photo. THANKS JPL 2.0

# 9 More RSS feeds!!

I played with Topix.net and found that the easiest. (once I realized that the search box was at the very top and small) I like the fact that I could just enter keywords and I was able to pull up stories for my topic. I am a big "Googler" and the site reminded me of Google.
I also realized that i had not made my Google Reader public and it is now public.
Yes you can click on the title here and go to my public Google Reader.