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.

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…

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...