Week 9 Wikis & Rollo

HOORAY, I have my home computer back.

Although I have used Wikipedia before I had only skimmed the surface. On further inspection I found that there is a vast array of information stored. I did a quick search on Debra Byrne (I'm reading her autobiography at the moment), from here it leads you onto other subjects which in turn lead to further subjects and so on.
I also checked out some of the "sister projects", proverbs, quotations, species, etc.
I also had a look at some of the library wikis, these appear to be a good way of sharing information for both users and staff. I couldn't open the NZ Police Act Wiki, but did have a look at the NZ Government Wiki.
It appears that you need a special programme to create a Wiki, perhaps in a one person library it could create a lot of work, as it would need to be kept very up to date but would probably be very useful.
It also appears you need to create an account to add/up-date in Wiki, my question is how accurate is the information given, I'm assuming that if you have access you can add any information, anyway I'm still having a play around with Wikipedia.

I also created a Rollo account and started to play around with my favourite urls. So far it looks great being able to narrow my search to my favourite and most useful web pages.
Anyway, again I am going to go back to have another play around with Rollo. (phew...I'd forgotten how different using my laptop computer was..making lots if errors when typing but must press on)..Jenny

Week 8 Social Bookmarking. Del.icio.us

I had a play around with del.icio.us and found it quite useful. I liked the idea being able to manage my bookmarks under the relevant tags and also liked having my most recent used bookmarks show up on my del.icio.us toolbar. I will probably use this one in the library quite a lot once I finish organising all my bookmarks. I notice that other participants had trouble getting the bookmarks to be sorted alphabetically. I also tried this but with no success. Under tag options it seems to be set on "count" and I could not change it.

Week 7. Google home page - iGoogle

I had already created a iGoogle page when I created my Google Reader account. Just went into My Account and selected igoogle and away I went. I have added a few things, Nasa image of the day, most interesting sunsets, youtube to name a few, I did put quite a lot on and decided that I had to much and edited it a bit. I have played around with a few of the Library gadgets as well.
I really liked playing around with iGoogle but had to restrain myself from adding to much, I think I will use it quite a bit...