Lina and Tinas project

Hi guys!

Me and Lina have now sent out our questionnaire to your school mail
and we would like to have them back before Thirsday 24:00.
You can send it in return from the school mail or some other mail, it
doesn't matter. The only ones who will see them are me and Lina.

When you fill in the questionnaire you only have to follow the descriptions
we sent in the mail.

Here is also the link to our blog, if anyone is curious:
http://webtwopointzero.pbwiki.com

knowledge sharing in student projects

Great if you in the spirit 2.0 of the course themes could help one another with ideas, feedback, references etc. for the student projects :-)

Please feel welcome to use this course blog for knowledge sharing :-)

Another option could be the course wiki: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dzh99j3_5dw7jrcc2&hl=en&pli=1
(I've just put a reference to a OCLC report there on sharing, privacy and trust :-)

Below is an overview of the student projects in the class:

• Anja (k05anan@dbstud.dk): children (9-14) in the 2.0 world
• Iveta (ku06ivpr@dbstud.dk) + Ivanessa (ku06ismo@dbstud.dk): young people (16-23)and library 2.0
• Sean (k05sepo@dbstud.dk): Biblnet 2.02: a student 2.0 platform for knowledge sharing and sociability
• Lina (ku06ligu@dbstud.dk) + Tina (ku06tian@dbstud.dk): wikis and collaborative learning for students
  
• Ulla H. (k05ulho@dbstud.dk) : wikis in a research institution library
• Yeliz (ku06yepa@dbstud.dk): open eprint archives 2.0
• Ulla B. (k04ulbe@dbstud.dk): OPAC 2.0
• Lillie (k06lire@dbstud.dk) + Maja (k06maro@dbstud.dk): tagging in OPACs
• Lone (k05loba@dbstud.dk): tagging in OPACs
• Ida (k06idbo@dbstud.dk): library data in mashups for new applications or websites
  
• Sebastian (k06sejo@dbstud.dk): Second Life, WoW and libraries
• Ruth (k05rusa@dbstud.dk): physical library 2.0
• Roger (k06baro@dbstud.dk): library 2.0 and library mission
  
• Kristina (k06krsc@dbstud.dk) + Jan (k06jajo@dbstud.dk): social network sites, social capital and libraries
• Caroline (k04cape@dbstud.dk) + Vicki (k06vile@dbstud.dk): libraries and Facebook
• Anne-Marie (k06anca@dbstud.dk ): barriers for librarians using social software
• Néné (k05nela@dbstud.dk): barriers of participation for librarians in wiki, libsuccess.org

Skype in class?

Does anyone in class have Skype on their laptop? With good loudspeakers and microphone?

I'm asking because Néné in London suggested she could do her presentation on Friday over Skype - with me showing her powerpoint slides meanwhile.

Could be interesting to see if it could work :-)

Good post on blog, about networked students

Librarian by day, just postet this very interesting post, about the networked student, and I just wanted to share it with you all.

Library on mobil

I tried Århus Library on the mobil (m.aakb.dk)It seems to be working very well. I think it is great that you can enter Litteratursiden.dk A side about litterature) or Gaffa.dk (A side about music). I think we will see a lot more of this in a short while.

Wanna participate?

Hi there!

Lina and I were wondering if you want to help us fill in a small questionnaire that we later on will use in our project. The questions will be about blogs and wikis in a learning context. It would be very helpful for us and will not take many mtrouble
inutes to fill in.

Please contact me by sending a mail to tina_andersson84@hotmail.com if you want to participate.

And Lennart, Lina and I are well aware of the fact that we are free-riding on your blog for this guestionnaire task, but we are only doing it because everyone in the class are using it and will see this, and because we had trouble to come up with a way that it would work if we posted it on facebook.

Hope it's okay, if it's not, tell us. But you know it's for a good purpose. :)

course cake

unfortunately my son is home sick today, therefore I cant bring the cake I have promised for today. Instead I will offer to bring a cake on friday the twelfth.

Have a nice day ;-)

Groups and profiles

Hi there!

I've just searched facebook for library groups, and I found this Library 2.0 Interest
Group. I thought it was kinda cool, so watch it out yourself, if you're interested.

I also found this group called, No, I don't look like a librarian! and I think that almost
everybody in our class kan relate to that phrase in some way, cause many of us have
heard it before. ;)

If you want to find profiles over librarians on facebook, you only have to search for
"librarian" and you'll find quite a list.

Problem statement

I have trying to find out what I' m going to writte about.
But now I have an idea.

"Based on SWOT analysis, my paper is going to look into how librarians in the public libraries can match some of Web 2.0 components with Library 2.0 in orderto achieve their mission".

May I deal with one or two components

Your comments will be highly appreciated.
Roger

Libraries on Facebook

Hi,
those are libraries whose presentations I found on Facebook.
Pages:

• Kansas City Public Library


• Toronto Public Library

Library Groups on Facebook:

• Open University Library


• Charleston County Public Library

It's not easy to find a library profile on Facebook, I think I came across few of them, but then you can't see the profile unless you aren't friend of them (maybe I'm wrong..).

Powerpoint for Friday Nov. 21st

Hi guys

I was gonna upload my presentation from Friday, but I can't find my USB thingie :(

Hopefully it's in my office. My butler is on vacation and so things get lost ...

Cheers,

Mikkel

Second life - not in a second...

After finishing reading for Friday, I had to try SL. But, after signing up, my old laptop can't come up with a useful video card, so now I can't join. What a shame.
Does anyone have any experience in this problem?

Serendipity

On my blog-round today I read this article. Very interesting. I have often read about Lifehacker, no. 5 on the list, but have never gone there. Today was the day and my eye immediately fastened on this article, which in turn of course led to this article. And naturally I had to read the other list as well. I can honestly say that some of those phrases I haven't used. But most of them I have. However, not "talk the talk, walk the walk". That really is an awful expression!

I promise to try and avoid each and every one of them in my paper. What about you?

Supervision etc.

Thanks for all the project statements you put on Google Doc or sent to me the last days.
Really some interesting topics that I look forward to discussing more with you :-)

Due to loads of other work, Mikkel and I have not completed the list yet - alas - of who will get him or me as supervisors. Hopefully, I can tell you more tomorrow :-)

The 5 foreign students visiting the school and the course have already been notified that I will be their supervisor.

I plan to put up a 'booking list' tomorrow so you can choose what time to get supervision.

Libraries on Facebook - not?

Guess this librarian doesn't want the libraries to be on Facebook.
This is from her blog:

Alternatively I suppose we could start to desperately flog the profession as: Become a librarian and get paid to play on Facebook!

Librarians in an online social environment flounder somewhere between the devil and the deep blue sea, and I think we’d be better just to swim away.


(‘No Facebook - Blessington St, St Kilda’, from avlxyz’s Flickr photos and reproduced under a Creative Commons License)

Libraries on Facebook

I read this today, and it is kind of what Caroline and I are going to write about.
I is originally written i danish, but I translated it in Google Translate.

Rss reader and Library 2.0 blogs

I use Google Reader to keep up to date with the blogs I follow, and I have placed it in my IGoogle.

Usually, I only folllow my friends' blogs, so I have taken some of your suggestions as a starting point in search for Library 2.0 blogs.
I choose What I Learned Today, a blog about web 2.0 that seems really interesting, and Library Hacks and Mélange, which gives us really good links and tips about Library 2.0 and web 2.0.

Sharing interesting blog contents

Great to see all the good Library 2.0 blogs you have found :-)

With all the interesting things you read on the blogs it would be nice if you all will share some of those interesting things with us on this blog the rest of course :-)

Web 2.0 sites, RSS and Blogs..

Last weeks assignment:
I am a lurker on these sites:
Internet Movie Database, Wikipedia, Scope (a danish site a little like Internet Movie Database), aok, Litteratursiden (danish site about litterature).

This weeks assignment:
I use iGoogle for RSS.

Found these blogs:
iLibrarian
News and resources on Library 2.0 and the information revolution.
Written by Ellyssa Kroski,a Reference Librarian at Columbia University’s Butler Library.

Meredith Farkas' blog.
According to herself: "A librarian, writer and tech geek reflecting on the profession and the tools we use to serve our patrons"

This blog will report news and developements regarding a book called "Information Literacy meets Library 2.0" edited by Peter Godwin and Jo Parker - just thought it looked interesting.

Bards Blower Songs

RSS-feeds…I tend to use the build-in RSS reader in my browser (Avant Browser) for a few simple reasons. It’s handy and with a right bar in the browser, easy to use – and a small sign pops up every time anything new happens on one of the blogs I’m following.

I know that none of this these are new, but since it wasn’t the assignment to find new blogs, but just to find some blogs, I don’t think it matters. I have chosen several blogs to follow:
The three I will be watching closely is:

• Farkas’s blog, for the obvious reasons. It’s her view point of web 2.0 that we are working with and therefore it is easier to set in on her writing style.
• iLibrarian, seams to have a broad range within the subject. It’s almost daily updated and have a blogroll with links to many of the other blogs listed by my co-students.
• This was the hard one, I wanted to take one with personality and humour, and I think both librarycrunch and ricklibrarian holds these characteristics. But in this case I’ll let the design win and choose ricklibarian, only because it’s easier to read.

Lets go bloghunting!

I have chosen 3 blogs to follow, even though Farkas been mentioned earlier I do mention her again. After been searching around for a while I went to ALA:s homepage. Thought they would have some great stuff about library 2.0 or at least some good blogs. But I was disappointed. There were blogs, but not many wrote about web 2.0 or library 2.0. There probably are many good blogs there though, and they have a nice own kind of RSS-feed that collects all their blogs in one page.

At least I found 2 other blogs that was interesting. First off is ALA Techsource And I found it sad that they don’t blog under ALA:s blog list. But they have some fun new tech-stuff and I love the “fun” angle on library and technology. The other blog is written by a system librarian and assistant professor Aaron, Aaron the librarian. He is fun, and he writes in a really good way that appeals to me.

It seems that many blogs out there are very good written and there are some spirits in them, but the lack of good categories (if any) starts to annoy me a bit. Would be nice if there was a self-tagging program that did all the tagging for the writer and put it in categories for them. Yeye, I know. Who would set the terms for those categories and so on, but it sure would help me stop getting annoyed of lack of taggs ;-)

As a RSS-thingy, I use Google reader. I did use the one in my browser before, but I find it better to have it on the webb.

Tinas library blogs

I've found the following blogs both interesting and useful.

Library 2.0: An academic's perspective - Even though it's not active anymore, there are many interesting things to read about the developement of Library 2.0

BiblioTech Web - A blog about how technology can improve both communication, research and learning in the librarians daily life. (the web site also includes many great links to other library blogs)

Ricklibrarian - The blog debate books, websites, movies and stuff that has something to do with libraries and librarianship. I think it's cozy and relaxed.

When it comes to my rss reader, I use igoogle.

Library 2.0 blogs, Rss..

I have never used RSS reader before. But I have started to follow Google Reader :)) I used google blog search so I found about library 2.0 blogs there... One of them;
"Information literacy meets library 2.0 " is related with library 2.0 and new technology. In addition they aim to share news and comment about developments over coming months. And I also found "Neyjude" that is you should find interesting comments about library 2.0 and web 2.0. The last blog is "library 2.0" which is for librarian and interested in library 2.0.

Library 2.0 and RSS

I will leave my status as a lurker and try to contribute to this course blog. I have not been af frequent reader or contributor to blogs, maybe that will chance? I have looked into some of your recommendations and there are several blogs I would like to explore further. My first recommendation is Libraryweb chick created by a librarien named Karen Coombs. The content seems relevant and interesting and the blog has a good layout, which is also important to me. Healthlibrary-web 2.0 Is a blog (It calls itself a blog) about web 2.0 and how it can be used by health professionals, for example how wikis are used in health science libraries. The blog resembles an ordinary website in many ways. But it is possible to comment on the different issues. I think it is an interesting collection of links to articles about wikis, blogs etc. for health professionals.
Ups, I forgot about the RSS reader, I use Bloglines.

Balmy Bro Grisly

Thank you Sebastian, anagrams are so much fun.

It has been a very long search for blogs, and it is not because it is hard to find library blogs, there are too many! It is a jungle out there.

The rss reader
I started using igoogle, but soon it became too messy, so now I only use igoogle to follow my friends blogs. Blogs that I use in school and at work I follow in google reader.

The blogs
The first blog is Steven's Lighthouse, also mentioned by Néné.

The second one is iLibrarian, it has a post about Twitter, and allthough, some people in the class find it hard to use, including my self, I'm sure Twitter is going to be the next big thing...maybe.

I'm very much in to danish libraries, I love them! So in my search for blogs, I have tried to find a danish blog in english, but have not succeded.
But I got a good tip from a colleague of mine. And with the talk about libraries at the beach last time in class, I would like to recommend this blog called Tame the web.

See you friday, where we are going to have a cabana ken.

Links from Farkas' book

When you read the chapters from Farkas' book, with all her good examples of Library 2.0 sites, you can find links to those sites here: http://www.sociallibraries.com/links

Librarian blogs, RSS

For getting RSS feeds from sites I'm interested in, I use igoogle. I used to have the feeds in Thunderbird but I considered web space to be more handy. I'll soon try Bloglines, seems to be better for organizing feeds from larger number of sites.

Blogs of Librarians writing about library 2.0 I found interesting:

• Phil Bradley's blog , which concerns mainly search technologies and Library 2.0.


• then I found a blog by David Lee King, who is interested in social web and new trends in librarianship.


• Blog by Ellysa Kroski iLibrarian might also bring interesting ideas about Library 2.0.


• Another blog, Library Gang has more contributors from field of our interest.


• I found some more blogs by librarians, who somehow contribute to Library 2.0, for example ShiftedLibrarian Librarytwopointzero

RSS reader and Library 2.0 blogs

I have chosen to subscribe to bloglines.com. I have never used a RSS reader before so I am still exploring what the possibilities are…

The page technorati.com helped me find interesting blogs about library 2.0. The blogs I will follow are these 3 blogs:

M. Farkas’s blog
Maybe too obvious, but she seems like an important and interesting person when it comes to library 2.0

Michael Casey
He is commenting on different library 2.0 issues (and now also on a certain US election…)

What I learned today…
It seems like an interesting site, and it seems to be updated often.

Deadlines for problem statements and student presentations

(This posting was also just put on the course web)

As mentioned in class last Friday there are some deadlines coming up with regard to your project paper and student presentations.

Deadline Monday 17.11 at 12.00 noon: send me an email (LB@db.dk) with a topic and preliminary problem statement for your project paper. The problem statement can of course be improved and refined also after the 17th :-)

Also put your topic and preliminary problem statement on the shared Google document:http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dzh99j3_5dw7jrcc2&hl=en

Please also let me know in your email and on the Google Doc if you consider to write the project paper together with others in class.

Depending on how many groups (and thus papers) there will be in the class, you will get supervision from either me or Mikkel Christoffersen (teaching on 21.11). Mikkel also teaches and supervises about Web 2.0 topics.

You are 23 students on the course and I have around other 35 students I supervise this semester, so I alas won't be able to supervise all of you.

Whether it will be Mikkel or me that will be your supervisor we will decide as soon as we know what topics and how many group papers and individual papers there will be.

The sooner you let me know about topics and group formations the sooner we can decide who will supervise whom :-)

As soon as we have decided it will be possible to get supervision from Mikkel or me - in all cases it will be after the 17th and before Dec 2 when the next deadline is - see below.

There will also be possibilities for supervision in the weeks after the student presentations on Dec. 5

The next deadline is Tuesday 2.12 at 12.00 noon: send me an email with an attached brief powerpoint presentation. Shall contain no more than about 5-6 slides giving a brief overview of: your motivation (why is this topic interesting?), your preliminary problem statement (what specific problem about the chosen topic do you want to analyze in the project paper?), your preliminary methodological considerations (what methods do you want to use to analyze and answer your problem statement?), your theoretical approach (what literature - found so far - do you want to draw upon in order to analyze and answer your problem statement?).

The powerpoint presentation should not take more than about 6-8 minutes in order to give place to feedback - also from students. Depending on the number of papers and groups, there will be around 15-20 min for each presentation including feedback on Friday 5.12 where we use all 5 lessons on these presentations and feedback. Hopefully there will also be course cake that day :-)

RSS and blogs

I most often use my iGoogle and my blog as a RSS-reader. I also use Google Reader, but I've placed it on my iGoogle.
I'm curious at Bloglines, and want to check it out.

I think it is a blog-jungle, and I don't think I just can find blogs to subscribe. I use serendipity, when I see something interesting I use Del.icio.us or RSS to follow up, and often I can go even further from what I've found. I'm not a very good english-reader, and have to use a lot of time to understand what a blog is about. There are other things I think is more interesting, than searching for blogs in english, but of course I've found 3 :-)

I chose blyberg.net because it seems very professionel, and he has been blogging since august 2005.

Like Néné I'm interested in Mary Ellen Bates - if she is writing about something, it might be worth looking at. I also found links to Phil Bradleys blog many places.

I also found iLibrarian by Ellyssa Kroski. It seems to be interesting as well.

At my blog I've allready had Blog on the Side - Darlene Fichter, as Caroline also linked to, and Sociale teknologier i biblioteker, a danish student from DB who had a course like this, last year.

... and found another one...

Food for thought

VS.


Find the picture here and here.

iCarolines Librarian blogs

After first discovering Librarian Bloggers, I stumbled over the blog:
What I´ve learned today By Nicole C. Engard. It’s a blog about Web 2.0 and programming tips from a library technology enthusiast, wich seems interesting as she reviews the web 2.0 tools.

I will also keep an eye on Jess from Massachusetts and her blog Cool Librarian because she sort of undergoes the frustrations and successes of being a librarian 2.0

Finally a funny one to scout through is Library Revolution, especially Librarians and Technology: minimal competences.

I know we are only supposed to follow/find 3 blogs but this is also great.

iCarolines RSS feed reader

I just created a really 2.0-ish iGoogle complete with pictureslideshow, librarysearch, Wiki and blogfeeds. Took me hours to choose the background and I´m still not quite satisfied. I´m such a girl.

Librarian blogs & RSS feed reader

Below my library blogs as a quote from my previous post.

Many librarians blog. Here are my favourites: Steven's Lighthouse, Phil Bradley, the Blue Skunk Blog and the legendary Mary Ellen Bates.

I use Netvibes for my RSS feeds. I colour code the entries, and thus divide then between LIS blogs, the blogs I follow for my own blog (politics and economics, primarily), the personal blogs and "other" blogs - food, design, books etc.

About reading for lesson 28/11

Hi,

I was trying to be a bit ahead, and would print all our reading at one time. I found out that the link for Ludvigsen, M (2008), was dead, but I managed to find the dissertation anyway here. And do remember that we only have to read pages 1-10 & 187-202!

Ruths bling bling blond blog.....

To start with I signed up for the RSS feed from the course blog, and then installed igoogle, very smart and very very easy to use.
Then I tried to find three interesting blogs that mention or write about web or library 2.0..and the first blogger I found interesting was a librarian named David Lee King.
Then on my way, came Lauren who is also a librarian, and blogs about different things, among her different post on the blog, there is a lot about web 2. 0.
Finally there is the social networking librarian, Annalaura Brown. Her main interest is library 2.0.
Thats all for now.
Have a great weekend. See you all next friday.

Kristina's blogs to follow

According to the assignment, I have been browsing for library 2.0 blogs to follow, and they are as follows:

1. Librarian by day because it has Library 2.0 as a main subject, it is personal, I like the tone it is written in.
2. The annoyed librarian because is is a humorous approach to library and to the things that colour our every-day-life. :o)
3. The invisible library because it is a personal blog, with both topics of news, his own musings, open source.

I found the two first blogs using bloglines (maybe not directly, but that was the starting point...) and the last one i found using a plain google search "librarian blog".

I use Google reader to view my rss-feeds. :o)

Exercise with RSS and Library 2.0 blogs

As mentioned in class yesterday, the hands-on exercise for next week is about RSS feeds and library 2.0 blogs.

Please make a post on this course blog before noon on Thursday Nov. 13 containing the name of the RSS reader you use (for example. Bloglines.com or Google Reader). Just the name of the RSS reader is enough. No links necessary :-)

Also add links (and short descriptions) to at least 3 different blogs on Library 2.0 topics you will follow through your RSS reader. The Library 2.0 blogs should be in English so the whole class can understand them :-) The blog topics could be about Librarian 2.0, Childrens' Library 2.0, or other (perhaps mixed) Library 2.0 topics.

As part of the exercise you should also use the widget at the upper-right of this course blog to subscribe to new posts and comments from the course blog through your RSS reader.

Twitter video

I just wanted to share the nice little video with you all. It is why we use status updates, and something about what motivates us to do it.

When you get in to the main page, click at the red box on right "watch a video", it is just 2 minutes long, but I think it's very good.

Mood 2.0 :-)

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/11/04/us/politics/20081104_ELECTION_WORDTRAIN.html

I've found that it was a so-called 'word train' I showed you in class today.

As I told you it allows readers of New York Times to choose and show what mood they are in after the US election.

LibraryThing

Anja won 1 kg of carrots today for having put most books into LibraryThing: 88 books.
Well done! Congratulations again :-)

I've put all our LibraryThing pages into a link list at the right.

Those of you still lacking to complete the course exercise of putting books in LibraryThing, please complete the exercise as soon as possible and add a comment to this posting with a link to your LibraryThing page.

Caroline´s belated Blogentry

I might be a little late with my contribution to this blog, but I have enjoyed reading yours and now finally I have the the time to write something.
I´m addicted to Facebook and use it on a dayly basis to see what my friends are up to and chat when I am bored at work. I also log into Biblnet every day to stay connected to my fellow students and get updates on what´s happening in our school. Other than that I also have a Myspace account, but rarely use it after being introduced to Facebook.
I post all our familly pictures on Flickr and chat with my international friends on ichat. I just recently, after joyning this course, I have logged in to LibraryThing and find it pretty exiting and usefull. I am also part of an online community called Edgeregs wich stands for Regulars of the chatroom Grapevinedge wich i used when I was living in Lisbon for 3 years. Other than that I use RSS feeds and also frequently log into Ibyen.dk and Aok.dk where you can comment on movies, restaurents and usertest.
I probably use a lot more but now I feel all webbed-out and can´t think of any more.

We are on Facebook!

Hi everyone
I have just created a group for us on Facebook, so please join in so i'm not the only one :-)

Big Storm Fly (anagram)

Hmm.Blogging.Probably not one of my most convincing talents but here I go.I like the idea of Web 2.0, even though I never think about it in my daily use of the internet.
Of course I’m among the 1’232’000+ Danes on Facebook, and like a drug I’m heavily addicted. But on those few days I try to quit Facebook, I find LinkedIn a marvellous substitute.
When I’m not on Facebook I like to go through different kinds of wikis, usually the ones concerning the computer games I’m currently playing, such as Wowwiki (World of Warcraft-wiki) and UESPWiki (Elder Scrolls Wiki).
I’m a big film collector and when you talk about film IMDB.com is indispensable – it is without doubt the best web 2.0 film-site on the web, with millions of users, and tons of user made material. When it comes to music I’m not much of a listener. But still Pandora provides me with an extended opportunity to make an enhanced playlist filled with music which I don’t necessarily know, but might like. The playlists are based on my voting on songs I’ve already heard.
But you can’t spend your whole life in front of the computer (or can you?). So when I want to spend some time out in my hometown of Copenhagen, I check mitkbh.dk. It is a user made online guide to Copenhagen, with reviews, comments, tag clouds and top 10 lists. If you want to know what is hot and what is not, where the food is good or the entertainment boring, mitkbh.dk is the place to visit.

Fun

Well, most of the people here have already mentioned the things I use daily, but I found this one cool web 2.0-thingy the other day. I guess you all know about magnetic poetry, which you use on the refrigerator? The gadget is for use in blogs and igoogle and so on, but I found another page with a multiplayer-touch. If several people are online on the page at the same time, they can steal your words and rearrange them! I love it :) Klick here to play!

And yeah, I never heard of igoogle before the class last time. Thank you soooo much for sharing! I play an online game that is in English and several times I need to check time differential, convert money to understand the value, and don’t get me started on all the weird inches and feet’s o.O But now, thanks to igoogle, I can put all in one page and easily access them directly! I’m starting to wonder how I survived without igoogle…(End of commercial)

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web 2.0

As I said last week, I have been using some web 2.0 sites without knowing them. These are for example wikipedia, youtube, messange, hotmail and so on. Just for downloading some musics and communicate with others in cases like exams or some other topics interesting life.

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Kristina's Web 2.0

I use a variety of web 2.0 applications i my daily life like: del.icio.us, iGoogle (where i also have link to my GoogleReader, politiken, Newz, the weather forecast, calender, notes and my del.icio.us account and at advanced searcher for the yellow pages (De gule sider)), Flickr, Instant messaging, Blog, Groups, Facebook, etc.

One of my bigtime favorites is Ravelry, which is at site for knitters, you have to get an approval to become a member of the site, so you have to send a description of why you would like to be a member, and then you maybe get accepted, just maybe. When you are a member there is a lot of tools you can use to keep track of your own knit-work, what yarn you have in your stash, what needles you are in the possession, but best of all, you can search other knitters works and see some of what they have knitted, and get their recepies and some of them are even freely avalible on the net or there are information on how to purchace the designs. Futhermore the have a cooporation with Flickr, so you can use the photos you have on flickr to show you knit-work. There are groups to different genres, countries, etc. and you can make favorites of both individual designs, designer, yarn, etc. It is in short words, heaven for at passionate knitter like me :o)

from anja

im not a big web 2.0 user, mostly i use roleplayingsites like roleplayinggames.net, roleplayerguild.com and roleplayingtips.com. im also a big fan of wikipedia and i resently got an account on facebook

Of I go to the web 2.0 jungle

Last Friday we were asked about which web 2.0-applications we use in our daily life and I was taken a bit off guard, because I have never really considered if I use web 2.0-applications and what kind. Nevertheless I took on the challenge to find out and share it with all of you here on this blog. To make it a bit different I have chosen to write my contribution as a diary – a diary of my internet life.

Monday morning, damn it’s a beautiful weather – will this last the entire day? I log on to my customized iGoogle where I can see the weather forecast, and yeah, it will be a marvelous day, for once without an umbrella. At the same time I check my Google calendar and plan my day. Then, while eating breakfast, I check out my RSS-feeds from www.politiken.dk and www.borsen.dk and read the latest news. Whoops, once again time flies by and I have to be at work in half an hour. At work it’s a busy day with meetings and a lot of assignments. At lunch my colleges and I always make up the “today’s question” and the challenges is who can find the answer the quickest – you can probably imagine that it’s quite important that I win as the only librarian in the department. The question today is when was Barack Obama born? Once again Wikipedia comes to my rescue and state that he is born on 4th of August 1961, I’ll just have to werify it from another sources. Unfortunately I wasn’t the quickest, but probably the most thorough :o) Later on a college of mine ask about Google features and I show him Google labs. On the site you can find all different kinds of prototypes/beta versions from Google – a recommendable technology playground! At 5 pm I take the bus home and after shopping for groceries, I fling my self on the couch with my computer. As my daily ritual I log on to my Hotmail, Messenger and Facebook. On Facebook I have posted an announcement for an event to celebrate the launch of the Christmas beer and a lot of people have responded that they will attend. I have never really understood until now, how big and efficient a marketing tool Facebook really is.

As I browse through this text I realize that my usage of web 2.0 sites is not really impressive or innovative, so my plan is now to explore the web 2.0 jungle and try out some of the sites you all recommend – I think I’ll start with del.icio.us, Flickr and Go2web2.0. So of I go to the jungle…

My favorite web 2.0-pages

The web 2.0-pages I use the most are youtube.com and myspace.com . So no, I won’t get points for my originality…
Recently I started using last.fm, but I don’t know much about that page yet. I think it is an interesting page because of the possibility for users to describe their favourite music through tagging and after that get recommendations of other interesting bands.

all of us use web 2.0 (yeliz)

People get together each other via web 2.0.They share their opinions,photos,video etc.So they can keep in touch easily.We 2.0 provide to create or easy to update.Because people don't need to know anything about web design.
I use facebook,flickr and I follow regularly youtube and "ekşi sözlük" which is a collaborative hypertext dictionary and it is currently one of the biggest internet communities in Turkey.Youtube is the my favorite web site.If I missed a program,I can watch on youtube.In addition I use MSN and SKYPE .So ,I meet online wtih my familiy or friends.:)))

Work stuff

I think that I use much of the same blogs as you do. So I would like to tell you about some of the sites, that I use in my daily work at Gentofte Library.

One of the best sites is Litteratursiden.dk. It is a page made and edited by librarians from all over Denmark.
It has a very good subject entry, that is very usefull, when people wants fiction in a specific genre or when they have read a book by a certain author and wants something that like that.
The site has a blog as well, and right now one of my favourite writers is blogging there.
Furthermore there are online reading circles. So for the web 2.0 generation this is very popular place.
Another site that I use and that I am co editing with other librarians is bng.dk. My group is the art group.
It is still very much on the beta stadium when it come to web 2.0. and later this month all the editors, will go to a meeting, where we will talk about how we can implement web 2.0 applications better than today. So maybe thats an idea for the final project....

Tinas thoughts

The interesting thing about interactive websites, is that the visitor of the site can affect what is written on them. Representative sites are for example advertising markets, webchat, guest book and more.

I use quite a few interactive websites, like metrobloggen, facebook and blocket.

Metrobloggen is similar to other bloggs you may know. The writer of the blogg is the moderator and editor of it; you can upload pictures, and visitors can leave comments, and then the writer choose to accept the comments and let them be visible for other visitors, or not. It’s really easy to start up a blogg because you don’t have to know HTML. You can choose one out of ten different already finished appearances for you blogg, but if you know how to create a CSS, you can make a completely new and original look for your blogg.

When it comes to me I’m an arty person, but in my blogg the focus is on the text, and not so much on the esthetics. I’m a creative person and I have to write to get rid of some thoughts, to be able to come up with new things. :) If you’re curious, it’s on http://www.metrobloggen.se/timotej, but most of it is in swedish, accept some poems, headlines and songs.

As almost everyone else, I’m on Facebook. The fun thing about it, is that you can collect friends. It might sound a bit strange, but I mean that you can keep in touch with people all over the world, and it’s very fast and easy, because everyone is there, only a “klick” away.
I’ve read an article about people getting addicted of the friend collecting part. They seem to think that the more friends you’ve got on facebook, the more status you’ve got over all. I think it’s rather the other way around...

Another site is Blocket, and it’s the biggest buy and sell market in Sweden. Here you can choose a landscape and a city, and then see what the people in the city wants to buy or sell. You can choose from several categories, if you’re looking for a car or an animal. I think it’s fun just to view what people have to offer, but I have actually never bought something, but many of my friends do.

Really cool link

I was just browsing through posts on Stephen's Lighthouse (previously mentioned, see below). There I found this fantastic collection of Internet tools to beat the credit crunch. Really useful!

Exercise: blog + LibraryThing

I've just put this message on the course web as well.

For those of you who were not at the lessons last Friday, I gave the class two exercises.

The first exercise is to write a blog post on this course blog.
The blog post should contain some of your favourite web 2.0 sites.

Please feel welcome to use the course blog to share ideas, web sites and other interesting stuff related to the course theme on web 2.0 and library 2.0. Please also use the blog comments to respond to each others' postings :-)

The second exercise is to create a profile page at LibraryThing: http://www.librarything.com
A web site for sharing your personal book shelf with others. We will use this web site to discuss how one can implement library 2.0 features in traditional library catalogs.

It would be great if you can accomplish both exercises before noon tomorrow Wednesday.

Please send me an email (LB@db.dk) with a link to your LibraryThing profile page. The link should be in this shape: http://www.librarything.com/profile/connecto (my LT profile :-)

The person in the class having most books in LibraryThing with tags at noon tomorrow will receive a small gift on Friday ;-)

Iveta's links to Web 2.0 sites

Hey, I would also like to contribute to this web 2.0 sites overview :)
As most of us, I use facebook , then igoogle and youtube. Similar kind of stuff as youtube can be done at Metacafe or czech Stream.cz , where users can add their videos or watch some pieces from czech tv channel, but I don't use it much.
I use Wikipedia, but only as a passive user, I do not contribute to the content. Then I sometimes go to Lyricwiki which is good when I need to find lyrics of songs I like.
I started my blog lately, but it is really a beta version, I still haven't found out everything I need from the CMS I'm using there..
I go almost every day to discussion forum nyx.cz where you can find a topic you are interested in and join easily with people with same interests. There are both chatting boards and more professional ones, which can be helpful if you have troubles when solving a problem. You can also present your pictures there and discuss about them and each user has a blogging space.
We used Slideshare quite a lot during one of my classes, our teacher always placed his presentations there. It's a good place when you want to show your presentations to group of people or find people who are into the same topic as you.
For listening to music, I sometimes go to last.fm but I think it has changed lately and I don't like it as much as before. I used to go more to Radioblogclub.com.

Ivanessa's suggestions

My first contact with Web 2.0 was six years ago, with a site almost like Facebook, very known in Portugal, called Hi5. It's a social network, where everyone shares photos, comments and other personal information. Back then, I had no notion of what Web 2.0 was, and Hi5 was mostly used to keep in touch with friends all over the country.
As my contact with the Internet began to increase, I became aware of many other community websites for other purposes. I still didn't know what Web 2.0 was, yet it was clear to me that these new paradigms of community and sharing were transforming the way people interacted with the Web and eachother. I was soon introduced to Last.FM and shared a profile with a group of friends, which enabled me to discover lots of new music i was unaware of.

I still remember the time when the vast majority of us did not know Wikipedia. It was a major revolution in the way we students thought about writing essays and doing our homework. While I never contributed any article, Wikipedia is often the starting point for most of my work. Other wiki software (such as TWiki) is used in some of the courses in my school for students to submit their work, and enables us to work together as a group, using all the tools for collaborative writing it provides.

Although I don't write a blog, i regularly keep in touch with my friends by reading their blogs, especially after having come to Denmark.
I also became addicted to Facebook, which event planning feature allows me to arrange nights out with my friends :) The iRead feature is a very nice addition, through which i can know what books my friends have read and share suggestions (almost like LibraryThing).
Google Reader is another application of Web 2.0 that i'm addicted to. I can concentrate all my news sources in one place, and share them with my friends.
I also use Youtube to watch funny videos and music videos my friends share with me.

Even though I don't use them, I know many other examples of Web 2.0 applications, such as Flickr, used to share photos; Delicious is a social bookmarking tool, which allows people to keep their bookmarks online, accesible from anywhere, and share links; Twitter is a microblogging tool, which can be used for reporting current actions and events, or as a mass SMS sender.

I am not even near a power Interner user, but I hope that I may have contributed a little to this blog :)

Ruths first blog entry ever called: Something old and not so much new!

Im so sorry, but I dont have any new and interresting web 2.0 sites to share with you.
Here´s the thing...I went on maternity leave about 2 years ago and gave birth to a beautiful son named Bertil!
Now Im back in school, and I decided to take two classes on 3. semester and the 5. semester at the same time! Hence NO time for funny BLOGS or any other web 2.0 sites!
I mainly read my homework when Bertil goes to bed at 20 every night, so I cant find the time or energy to investergate the www! The only web 2.0 sites Ive been using is the simple facebook and wikipedia. Otherwise I use the danish site all about copenhagen, to keep me updated on whats going on in copenhagen. If I should be so lucky to get a night out:-)I wouldnt call aok a new and exiting web 2.0 site, but you can be a member and write comments on restaurants etc. if you wish to!
As we speak Im on my way towards librarything!

Néné's mixed goodies

I'm your ghost co-student, because I live in England. I've been blogging for years, read it here.

Like Lennart I also use LibraryThing (link to my own page) and StumbleUpon. I use Flickr (again link to my own page) for pictures, Google video for guess what (but might soon change to Vimeo on recommendation of my eldest son who dabbles a lot in video) and Google Docs for writing, saving and sharing documents with other Google users. I use Delicious for my private bookmarks and Connotea for my LIS links. Then there's Netvibes, which I use for easy access to the blogs I follow regularly (RSS). I'm a Wordpress blogger and a Mac-user so I of course peruse all sites with those two names in them (more or less). I'm also on LinkedIn and on FaceBook. Let's connect if you're there too. Please write to me that you're from the Web 2.0 course, since I won't meet you and hence will not know your name.

Here's a useful blog to follow if you're interested in creating stuff on the web (it's in Danish).

I use Firefox for almost all my browsing, but also have Safari installed. Will definitely try out Google's browser Chrome when it becomes available for Mac. All my techie PC friends are crazy about it. My searches are lazily mainly in Google, but when I run into dead ends, I also try Cuil (pronounced cool).

I use lots of dictionaries and other info-sources. There's Merriam-Webster, which is incredibly useful. It will even teach you to pronounce the words so you won't make a fool of yourself when presenting in English. Then there's the Acronym Finder, which is useful in many walks of life. And there are two sites about hoaxes and pranks on the Internet, which I use whenever I have to convince somebody that their chain mail about rewards from Microsoft or whatever is a hoax. It's Break the Chain and Urban Legends. I make a living as a translator, so I subscribe to Ordbogen.dk. It's not perfect, but in combination with my paper dictionaries and M-W, it's very quick and not expensive. I'm a registered user at Wikipedia, which I use a lot. Here's something I've written about that for my previous course with Birger Hjørland.

Many librarians blog. Here are my favourites: Steven's Lighthouse, Phil Bradley, the Blue Skunk Blog and the legendary Mary Ellen Bates. A few other blogs, which point in the general direction of Web 2.0: On Anthropology and Economy in a web-sense, on all things web 2.0 and the Godfather of Web 2.0 Kevin Kelly.

And then there's the best content on the web: TED. (Challenge: spend 3-4 hours there and then point me to another place on the web where you can learn more in such a short time (except maybe for Videojug, but that's more hands on!).

That's all I could think of right now. More will come to mind later...

Anne-Maries Web 2.0 links

There is a lot of interesting web2.0 features, and if you don't know anything about it, this is a place to start: GO2WEB2.0 But offcourse, it might be a little too much :-)

I like the features where you can opload your fotos to the blog in severel ways. You probably all know Flickr and Picasa, but here is a site, where you can make your own slide-show in many funny ways. It's simply called Slide

If you like music, there are different tolls to f.ex. get a radio on your blog, one could be Last.fm It's easy to use, but do not allways contain what I'm looking for. Or, try Deezer

If you want to learn more about 23things, you can easily look it op at Helsingør Bibliotek, or Gentofte Bibliotek - but only in danish.

Lennart's favourite Web 2.0 sites

One of my favourite Web 2.0 sites is LibraryThing: www.librarything.com, where I share my private book shelf (not all of my books yet :-) www.librarything.com/profile/connecto

Another favourite is StumbleUpon: www.stumbleupon.com/about/, where I share some of the web sites I find - sometimes serendipitously stumbled upon :-) connecto2.stumbleupon.com

Welcome :-)

Welcome to this course blog where we can share ideas and links to interesting Web 2.0 and Library 2.0 sites.

PS. Source of the illustration: http://library2.usask.ca/~fichter/blog_on_the_side/2006/04/web-2.html
(Make your own Einstein blackboard: http://www.hetemeel.com/einsteinform.php :-)