WEEK 8

Ok I could go home, but it’s raining quite heavily outside so I figure when would there be a better time to sit down and try to nut out the rest of the weeks lesson.


Del.isio.us

Discover #1
• So far for this week I have talked about Del.isio.us and its applications.
• I haven’t been able to add a link to my Blog but I shall be enlisting Newbie to come and show me how it’s done.
(Update: thank you very much to Newbie who came and showed me how to get the link happening It is now up and running on the blog).


Technorati

Discover #2

I had a go at searches. To be honest with you I found the results page a little bland. I didn’t know if the results had finished coming through because I didn’t think the background had fully loaded. Mind you I guess this is more of a visual thing.

In relation to other things, I found it helpful that the words the I had searched were highlighted underneath each result and showed which context they were found in. It helped me to understand why things had come up as results.

Oh and about the flicker images coming up as results to the search, I was more impressed with YouTube clips coming up. For some reason I didn’t really expect YouTube to come up.


LibraryThing

Oooooo…… For a time I really loved a very similar function on FaceBook.


(One week later)


I found that creating an account was a little difficult. It was very hit and miss in regards to finding a free user name. As you can imagine on a site like this “Bibliophile” was already taken.

Finding books that I have read was fun. However it was a little frustrating that I was unable to find several books, (all of which are classics!!!) that I tried to search for. It may have been that my spelling was a little off or a missed typing a letter, however I have found that searches which offer ‘auto spell check’ for search terms help curve user frustration.

There you go I just retried my search for “the hitch hiker’s guide to the galaxy” this time making sure that I didn’t leave out the all important second ‘a’ in ‘galaxy’. And in stead of receiving no hits, I received 67.

Apart from that I quite like LibraryThing. I might even have a play with it when I get home.

Finally I think I have concluded week eight.

Told you...

There you go that's proof that I have been trying to have a go at week eight for a while. After I posted the other day I started clearing out my folders and found this draft for a post that I worte on the...6th May (I had completely forgotten about it):

Week number 8.

Explore:

It wasn’t very hard to set up the account, although it would be nice to be able to install the tool bars.

I totally agree with the suggestion that this would be a wonderful way to store information for research advice.
It would save the librarian time in searching, they would be able to go straight to helpful pages. I can’t think of many other applications for the library though…

However if we compiled a list of helpful resources I suppose that we wouldn’t be able to make it public (?).

Sigh

Week eight….

I have attempted to do week eight several times now and I keep hitting a brick wall. So I am now going to make my self sit down and do it.

Nope still confused. I’m not sure how to get the Del.isio.us thing working on my blog.