#23 - The End

#22 - Web 2.0 awards

#21 - Online productivity tools

#20 - Library/Web 2.0

Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon.
Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted,
And human love will be seen at its height.
Live in fragments no longer.
Only connect...

--E.M. Forster, Howards End
(as quoted in "Only Connect"--E. M. Forster In An Age Of Electronic Communication: Computer-Mediated Association And Community Networks
by Mary E. Virnoche and Gary T. Marx

Connection. Community. Conversation. That's what Web 2.0 and Library 2.0 are all about. These cool tech tools are only as good as tools in building community, in enabling conversation between Library and people, between people and people and connecting people to ideas, to knowledge, to each other. That's what libraries have always done (sometimes accidentally or in spite of ourselves) but now these tools make it possible on a different scale, in a different way.

#19 - Technorati

I've used Technorati since I started my Pete's Picks blog. Oddly enough I had never "claimed" my blog however, so I have now done that. As to the search function: Ever since Cadence Weapon (aka Rollie Pemberton - local rapper) stopped updating his music blog I've looked for an Edmonton-based music/MP3 blog along the lines of Said the Gramophone or I (Heart) Music (Ottawa). Technorati is still no help!

#18 - del.icio.us

I've heard about del.icio.us for ages but haven't tried it until now. I've built up quite a hierarchical list of bookmarks over the years, at work, at home, so it is hard to start anew. And here at work it is relatively easy to share bookmarks on the network drive so that I can access them from various workstations. But the tagging and social aspect is intriguing, so I'll continue building it up.

#17 - Rollyo custom search engine

Interesting. Not sure how useful it is to me, either personally or professionally. The most useful thing search-wise would be a federated search or link resolver style search across several different online databases. I often have to duplicate searches in Ebsco's pile of databases and then InfoTrac's. Rollyo doesn't get help there I'm pretty sure.