Emotion A.7.3.1

The Wiki entry says: The key principles of Library 2.0 are not just about access to books and information. It is about innovation, about people, and about community building, enabled through the participation that social computing brings. It achieves this through trust and encouraging users to share ideas through writing, rating, and commenting against everything in the library's collection. It even makes the collection open to developers to use, re-use and improve!

What does Web 2.0 mean to me? A way to stay in touch with my kid. A way to discuss common interests with complete strangers in cyberspace- including frequent and painful flaming you'd never see in real life. A way to shop. Entertainment. Infotainment. A way to interact with patrons and allow patrons to interact with me online, hopefully without flaming. It's a dog eat dog world out there!

Emotion A.7.3

Well, I learned that the 4th most popular search term in Technorati is "budak jolai" which is apparently some kind of Malaysian sex tape. Obama was number 9 and Nick Lachey was number 11. I don't know what this says about the blogosphere, but somehow it doesn't sound good. I mean, Nick Lachey is so three years ago!

Tried to continue, but couldn't because "We're currently experiencing unusually high load and are working to resolve issues with the service as quickly as possible."

Search URL in technorati- I found 73 posts, including one that said "When I used the url seach feature I found 72 posts that link to www.pbclibrary.org."

Search tags- "38,960 posts tagged web 2.0"- Related tags:web-20, web2.0, ajax, technology, web, internet, tech, blogging, google, techcrunch

Technorati was so slow, I opted to not do the optional exercise.

Emotion B.2.0

Well, ain't that delicious....

Can you see the potential for research? Yes, I suppose I can see *potential* for research... Thought of that perrenial reference question- what are those trees out front with the yellow flowers? I looked for tags: yellow flower trees. Got 12 hits, none of them were the answer. Got ads to buy flowers and trees.

Set up my own account. Looked for tags regarding American Idol winner David Cook. Got ads for tour tickets and ring tones. Got a list of reasonable websites. How is this better than just goggling the guy?

Ho Hum.

As a way to quickly get to my own favorite sites no matter where I am, ok.

And something about the way they separate del.icio.us with the dots really bothers me, too. And what is up with the name delicious? What is delicious about it?