Week 8 - Answer Boards and Social Searching

Answer Boards - what a scary place to go. Have you seen the kinds of questions people ask? I went to Yahoo Answers and trying to find a serious question... Anyway, I answered the question:


"What exactly does the word "Incurred" mean?"


http://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ap1My6NC7LncbBEIEttrMowJ5wt.;_ylv=3?qid=20081009200107AAjvuNH


I had loads of fun creating my Yahoo Avatar to accompany my answer and you will know me as Librarian 13...

Plus, the Taste Website - have I died and gone to heaven? All these great recipes - and reviews - at my fingertips. Here is my favourite:

http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/16046/lemon+tart

Enjoy!

Week 7 - Tagging, Folksonomies, del.icio.us and LibraryThing

I have really enjoyed this week - how much fun was it to set up your profile in Library Thing? I hope you all at least tried. Here is mine:

http://www.librarything.com/profile/vix013

del.icio.us will be a fantastic resource too! I will try and add some new widgets to this blog - look out for them....

Week 7 Tagging at PhM

Here is an interesting link from the Powerhouse Museum, they encourge user generated tags and see them as a way of expanding access.

When I'm tagging their photos in Flickr I like to refer to the Australian Pictorial Thesaurus and will also mention it in discussion groups when members wonder how to properly tag their own images. However a combination of the intuitive and the formal is now emerging, which although anathema to our profession, will I think, and perhaps has already, become the norm out there in userland.

Week 7 Tagging & Folksomonimies

Hey that d.e.l.i.c.i.o.u.s thing is a bit of alright. I actually rediscovered a whole lot of cool old bookmarks I hadn't used for simply ages, just because they are re-presented in a new order. And I can now access my work bookmarks from home, and vice versa, alright!

The Sutherland Library bookmarks were an interesting alternative way of presenting recommended sites.

I added all my faves to Library Thang and can now tell what books I've read, in case I forget, like many borrowers do.

I put a blog on Technorati, it rated 4+ millionth in interest, ah well. It was interesting though, seeing the blogoshpere in action...

And thanks to everyone who viewed and rated my Scenic Railway video on youtube!