PBWiki

That was pretty neat. It was fun reading everyone's comments and it wasn't too overwhelming. If there were pages and pages of comments, that would be too much for me. The formatting was a bit off and that made certain sections more difficult to follow. I added comments in fave vacation spot and fave TV show.

Wikis

Hmmm.... another intersting advance in technology. I can certainly see how it would be useful for my position - sharing program ideas, what worked/what didn't, taking a look at how other libraries approached a similar idea. The catch - everyone needs to be involved and people need to take the time to make use of the page. Otherwise it just sits there with no input from anyone. The YS wiki that was created is a wonderful idea, but not much has been added yet. Are people afraid? Hesitant for some reason? No time? I think with a bit more encouragement and time, it will end up chock full of information. We maybe just need to change the look - new colors, fonts... Jazz it up a bit.

On Library 2.0 and Web 2.0

I first read the article Away from Icebergs and agreed with most of what the author said. That in order to stay "popular" in the eyes of our patrons, we need to adapt and change along with the changing technology. I think we have done a great job with that. But being a Youth Services librarian and helping those kids who are 2-5 years of age who hardly know what downloading means, reaffirms why I became a librarian - to help our patrons using books and reading. Which leads into the other article - Into a New World of Librarianship. For the age range of children I mentioned before, books will always be the priority, not blogs and wikis (although librarians can certainly use these tools to find new titles, new pathfinders, etc). So, it is an exciting time for change in libraries, but some things will thankfully always stay the same - a child having a book in his/her hand.

Technorati

My, there are a lot of people who have things to say about Sanjaya!! For me, it was the most interesting to check the "top searches". I also went to google and typed in "Sanjaya blog" and "Sanjay blog posts" and got many blogs as well. Including the link to technorati's list of Sanjaya blogs.
I feel like I have been repeating myself about many of the things we have been learning. It is wonderful to learn and I feel much more knowledgeable about what is "out there" on the web. But, these things are not useful to me. I can't give up what little time I spend with my family to search the web and use these tools.

Rollyo and Delicious

Interesting idea and it was fun to look at Debra Messings roll. I used my passion in life to create my roll - shopping! I would not use it in my personal life and I do see how it can be helpful for research or reference help. If you have millions of questions on American Indians, create a roll for that. Or science fair projects. But, we are trying to encourage the students to use our databases for research and you can choose a cross database search from the list alphabetically and/or by category. So, shouldn't we use that feature? I feel the same way toward Del.icou.us. There are probably only 3 sites that I religiously check. That is not enough to set up a permanent account in either of these. Although, the idea is great (especially being able to access it from anywhere), it wouldn't work for me. It was fun checking the popular and recent tags posted. I found a weird little cartoon with Harry Potter in it!! :)

Time to Catalog! NOT!

Libary thing is a fun little web site. I will not, and do not have the time to use this as it is intended. I also used the tag feature for little notes instead of "cataloging" purposes.
I liked the Unsuggester - neat!
http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=chrisleary

Generate this!

That was fun. There are a lot of "crude" generator tricks out there.

Again, all in the name of work!