Favorite animals

So, I've just recently edited the CML Learn & Play wiki @ pbwiki.com, and I listed a few of my favorite animals, including cheetahs, green iguanas, cats, and dogs.

http://learnandplaycml.pbwiki.com/Favorite+Animals

Wikis

Wikis are absolutely great! I'm a die-hard disciple, or at least an advocate, of Wikipedia, and I use this site on a near daily basis. I've even edited entries within Wikipedia (an entry concerning a musician and his musical collaborations with other music groups/musicians). With regards to library usage, I can already envision one example where collaborative wikis could be useful: for meeting room bookers and attendants in organizing their agendas, supplies needed, etc. when planning meetings within any of the library's public meeting rooms.

Yea, wikis!

Library 2.0

Reading some of the articles concerning library 2.0 musings linked from the 23 Things blog, I noted that one key to progress seemed to be the idea of openness (and constant evolution) with regards to bringing libraries to people, and not the other way around; that is, tailoring the library experience to suit the needs of its users where that need is present, and not forcing users to go out of their way to obtain needed information where the case may be that easier access channels could be implemented. Library 2.0 seeks to create librarians who are "superstars" of information, who can gather information and draw connections between relevant bits of information from a cloud that is increasingly expanding and sometimes diluted. I don't know if this thought chain is just a foggy cloud in itself, but that seems to be the gist at least; nurturing research and connection skills among both librarians and the public, and enabling greater accessibility.

Del.icio.us and tagging

Del.icio.us is not necessarily my favorite web 2.0 tool, but I can sort of see the utility that it serves to those inclined to tag and categorize emerging trends, phenomena, and "it" things cropping up all over the web's vast expanses. To that end, it serves its goal quite well, as options to bookmark many a webpage through Del.icio.us are present across the web's global terrain. One can not only tag a site (writ large) via Del.icio.us, but also, say, a single article authored within a site.

http://delicious.com/Geosaurus

Library Thing!

The Thing(!) is Library Thing. The thingiest thing that ever thingingly thinged. This site was superb for use in creating a list of one's favorite books and presenting them as a collection to be perused almost as if it were a virtual bookshelf of book covers and vital stats on said literature, sans the complete works themselves in digital format. Un trés neat and nifty site!

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/Geosaurus

Twittering tweety tweets ♫

Exploring the personal-activity-and-whereabouts updating and social broadcasting site Twitter, I found the service to be rather inane. Twitter was only able to find one person within my e-mail contacts who was already using Twitter for his own devices and purposes. Needless to say, I wasn't much enthralled with Twitter's offering to web 2.0

http://twitter.com/Geosaurus

Bloglines and Google Reader

As already mentioned, I've managed to access my Google Reader account (seemingly already made up and there for me even when I had no idea of its existence), and to explore within. However, I've also established a Bloglines account, and I've found both services to be neat ways of keeping abreast of developments from journalistic and newsworthy sites across the web via RSS feeds.