Week 6

Webgurl has been forced to eat her words. She definitely CAN see a great usefulness in Del.icio.us! How cool is that, to have a web-based bookmarking tool rather than a PC based one (ditto for lots of other things done on a PC...) and the sharing aspect is neat too. Cant wait to switch over !
Did the searching on Technorati, no big surprise to see that lots of the popular sites are techie ones, and was surprised to see the different results from the three different search avenues

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Webgurl sure wishes she actually looked like this! She did spend last weekend on the beach at Assateague though (minus the cat and the purple bikini, but including the dolphins, and a head cold...) It was, as Kathleen would say, simply glorious!
Looked at Library Thing and can see some real possibilities for libraries to include this as a way to promote new or specialized groups of titles. A sort of digital "display" , right there on the website! Rollyo was interesting especially for those who spend a great deal of time personally or professionally on the web. Again, Webgurl is not these people, but with kids getting ready to fly the nest she may have to give this one some more serious consideration as she will probably be doing a lot more surfing. I'm feeling a Rollyo for college sites coming on...

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Webgurl is enjoying getting to know Merlin! Great site and there is SO much on it that we can use to stretch ourselves and to keep up with what's going on in the wider library world. THERE'S an RSS feed that I'll use!

RSS Feeds

OK admittedly RSS feeds can be very useful for, lets say, researchers, columnists and writers and others who have pressing needs for certain quantifiable types of info. Webgurl is not these people and isnt exactly sure that RSS feeds will Change her (personal)Life. I am a "weather chick" according to my family and so that could be a possibility but I have my regular sites bookmarked and can run through them pretty quickly that way. RSS you havent converted me yet!
However, on a professional level it could be very useful to have lots of up-to-the-minute library newsfeeds coming to my new Bloglines account! Ive subscribed to several already.

Tried Feedster and that one seems interesting enough when I am in the market for new feeds. Not too hard to use.

Now THIS is web 2.0!

Webgurl's first thought when reading about mashups was "can they DO this?!" To take a piece of this site and a chunk of that, sites which seemed quite proprietary -- someone's in trouble! But as I've read more I've come to feel that mashups are, for me, the best example so far of a responsive web. How cool is that, to be able to tweak a site to make it better serve the needs of the individual user, instead of the user having to build their own from scratch or sit around waiting for the site "owners" to come up with new and better ways of presenting their info!