Things 13-15 Tagging, Folksonomies & Technorati

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Thing 13:

Not impressed initially with del.icio.us. Adding the tags to internet explorer caused it to hang on opening. And that was messy to fix. Did eventually get it working.

Went through the Us.ef.ul "A beginner's guide to The Next Big Thing" page and it became obvious that there is more to del.icio.us than can be quickly absorbed.

I've been using Google Bookmarks for some months and find them invaluable. I move between 4 different PCs. So the "bookmarks kept on the web" concept was quite familiar. But it doesn't have the social, sharing features of de.icio.us. I created an account and had a play. Loaded my internet explorer bookmarks into del.icio.us. Very interesting to see how much was bookmarked in common with others. And more interesting to see the other related links that they had which I did not have.

Saw how to add my tags to my blog, but did not do so. Need time to clean them up first. This whole area is too big to look at in one afternoon. Need more time on this one...

Thing 14:

First, claiming the blog for Technorati => Technorati Profile

Then adding the Blogger and Technorati buttons and search box. See the items at lower right.

Added YPRL as a keyword.. and an automating ping for Technorati. Found this blog in Technorati as expected after a delay of several minutes.

Thing 15:

Read all five of the "perspectives". Particularly liked the "chain of meaning" "from commodity to product to service to experience" analogy with coffee from Dr. Wendy Schultz in her Infinite Futures piece. She not only speaks well on Library 1.0 and 2.0, she talks for the first time in my experience about Library 3.0 and 4.0. Absolutely love her concept of the knowledge spa. Wonderful imagery. Hopefully the world will get itself educated, with our help of course, to the level required to realise it.

Also found http://otherlibrarian.wordpress.com/2007/01/19/my-top-ten-library-20-no-brainers-for-public-libraries/ and it looks like this has useful views on what we should have in our future SOE for YPRL.