LIBR 246-04/13 Web 2.0 (Fall 2010)

This was an awesome course! There was so much to learn from start to finish. As far as my view of Web and Library 2.0 and social software goes, I have a changed attitude towards blogs in particular, especially as a method of staying on top of breaking technologies and new applications. Twitter surprised me the most as being a tool for keeping current. I had really just heard of celebrities posting ephemera-what they ate, rants, and so on.

Ordering material 101

As Grohol states in his blog post, anonymity in an online community can be a duplicitous affair. Since an online community member is free to post information without the possibility of being identified personally, it allows certain topics to be discussed with a candor that might not be otherwise possible. The other side of coin is that pranksters and other kinds of information vandals can just easily indulge their destructive tendencies.

I think the take-home on the subject of the "Wisdom of Crowds" is the need for both diversity in the group, and the requisite necessity
that those involved have to make authentic "independent individual decisions," and not "start paying too much
attention to what others in the group think" (1).

Experience has taught me of a universal need for individuation, which requires independent thought and not allowing one's beliefs and ideas

This well-designed exercise to acquaint us more comprehensively with delicious was a lot of fun! One of the first realizations I had to nail down was that there are no capitalizations (or spaces) in delicious tagging. I now much more fully appreciate the distinct information collection, management, and retrieval tool that delicious is, as well as how to navigate through the different paths. Each destination (or bookmark) is like a node in the delicious network, just like people (taggers), and the attributes they designate (tags) are.

This was quite an enlightening, informative and enjoyable session. I was surprised to find out that the U.S. does not have the highest

The City of Oxnard is a 25 square-mile community of 200,000, located midway between the cities of Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, California. Largely Hispanic in composition at 70 percent, Oxnard is home to a large population of agricultural laborers. It is the 21st largest city in the state and the largest city in Ventura County. Pertinent data from the U.S.

Obviously libraries are doing well to take their resources wherever the community is. The time of waiting by for patrons to realize that they have

Again there was so much content this week (especially) that is new to me, as my use of the Web was a lot more limited Up until a few weeks ago. About as close as I was getting to lifestreaming was through Facebook. RSS feeds now provide for me "an inbox for the internet," and now I see how Twitter enables instant-messaging to happen at a much larger scale. Add to that now the capacity to link it all together using those lifestreaming applications and we really are way past Web 2.0 and into something much more participatory in nature.