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.

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 ;-)

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 :)