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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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…