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

Look what I found, an application--called Lazy Sheep--that will automatically generate Delicious tags for you!

Ha.  Now all of our problems have been solved.

Ryan

Thinking more and more about how we can integrate social bookmarking into a librarian's tool, I started looking around to see how people are doing this.

Having RSS feeds on your site is a easy but messy solution.

But Delicious is trying to make it easier.  They have a code generator for adding links from Delicious onto your site, they call this a linkroll.

I found a blog just for screencasts called screencastr. It has how-tos for photoshop, web browser tips and tricks, tips for twitter, and all kinds of other things.  It appears that all the screencasts are made by one person, Michael Ryan, and they're pretty well done for the most part.  It doesn't seem like he uses a script, but they don't turn out badly for it.  I watched one called "8 uses for twitter search" which had a few helpful tips that I hadn't thought of before.

I found an interesting book about YouTube in the Sacramento Public Library system: How to Make Money with YouTube by Brad and Debra Schep. Maybe not the most academic of titles but it has quite a lot of useful information, much of which is relevant to using YouTube to market a library.

In my previous post about what libraries shouldn't do when screencasting, I referred to videos as black boxes. What I mean is, a video is difficult to scan for information, both from the user's perspective and from a search engine perspective. The information contained within a video is 'stuck' within that video. Search engines can't penetrate and index it; users can't easily skip to the good parts and instead must be passive.

This video was a big internet sensation a few years ago. I’m guessing the artist used screencasting technology.

strangely enough, i came across my resource for the week while practicing for my screencast of creating twitter lists.  i happened to do a twitter search for librarians and came across @thelibrarynews and the following twitter post...

I came across a blog post Screencasting-Patron POV

from "Tame the Web" by Mick Jacobsen, Skokie Librarian, discussing his thought process behind the new screencasts he was creating last year.  He wants them to be from the patron's points of view and to discuss common questions very specifically.

I think this echos many things the class has been saying this week-- for example that it is best to create short, series of screencasts on specific aspects of a database.

The Internet certainly has done much to alter the landscape of celebrity culture. Although appearing on Britain's Got Talent would have gained Susan Boyle attention even without the Internet, it's the YouTube post of her performance that propelled her fan base into the millions.