Technorati [Thing 14]

I think Technorati is really cool! I found my own personal blog on there by accident, and the other day I got a comment from someone who found it on there too! I thought that that was pretty cool since I had learned what that was with Learning 2.0. Even though a lot of the things I searched didn't come up with the results I wanted, I could see how this would be a useful tool. The popular tags had some interesting stuff in them. The Awkwardness Survival Guide was really funny and PostSecret was on there too.

Thing 13

I'm not a huge fan of Del.icio.us. There's not much to do one there except for check out websites that other people used, but you only get to see the really popular ones that you already know about.

It could be helpful for research topics though. If there was a school project going on and all the websites on that topic were in one place, it could save people a lot of time that they'd spend wandering around the library trying to find something with their topic.

Library Success [Thing 16]

I chose the Library Success Wiki. http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

I like this one because there's one section where librarians can enter their AIM screen name. I'm always looking for new people to talk to and these people are from all over the country!

There are a lot of useful things under here for librarians to use, and they're all under detailed lists so that you can directly get to what you want.

PB Wiki [Thing 17]

I really like PB Wiki! When I first went, I immediately went to the "Favorite Music" section to see if anyone was there who had similar tastes in music. I form really strong friendships with people who have the same taste in music as I do. I didn't find anyone who had exactly the same taste, but I found someone with a few similar artists. I also added to the Favorite Movie page.

This is a really good site and it's pretty simple to use.

Zoho Writer [Thing 18]

Zoho Writer has probably been the most confusing "thing" I've done on here. I didn't really understand what it did for a while. When it finally clicked I realized how convenient it was. It seems like a good tool, but I wish there were more obvious instructions and explanations. I didn't even see the first document they made for me that explained it until about 10 minutes after I clicked around trying to figure out what the purpose of Zoho Writer. I'm not sure that I would use Zoho Writer outside of L2.0, but you never know.

Consumating.com [Thing 19]

For this "thing", we were supposed to explore one site out of a super long list of award winning sites. After searching almost all of them, I've decided to write about consumating.com. Consumating is a social networking site that joins people by tages they use to describe themselves. There is also a rating system for people too. Instead of spending hours browsing through hundreds of people to find someone with common interests like one might on myspace.com, you just type in a tag and everyone who entered that tag when they describe themselves comes up. The site also has various questions to answer in a clever and witty way. I signed up for an account [couldn't help it] and it's pretty good for late night net time on the weekends. Other than that I don't use it much.

The only use for this that I could see in a library setting is joining people who care about the library together.

You Tube [Thing 20]

It's been a while since I last posted. We got really busy, but I'm trying hard to catch up!

OK. So for Thing 20 we were supposed to explore YouTube. This isn't even close to being my first time using this site. I'm a teenager, so I'm on here quite a bit.

My video is of an acoustic song by My Favorite Highway when they played at Jammin Java in Vienna, VA. MFH is one of my favorite bands. They're unsigned as of now, but they're amazingly good, so it won't be long until they are. I chose this video because I went to this show a while ago and had an amazing time with my best friend. Dave (lead singer and guy playing acoustic guitar) played this new song and it's absolutely wonderful.



YouTube could possibly be used for Library Instructional Videos, but I'm not sure what else the library could use them for.