Hi all, Just been helping AN with her Blog, so I am in here again. I found an interesting article on the BBC website on the weekend about Web 2, so thought I would share it:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/6574839.stm

Also there was an article in the middle of the "Australian" Monday 23rd of April. It was talking about the bad side effects of Web 2.0. How anonymous blogs can mean people can be as evil and menacing as they want. It also may have an effect on politics as it is another form of media that politicians can gauge public opinion by.

Thanks for the comments, I will have to start leaving some on other blogs soon.

Klickety

ECU Web 2 begins

Hello all, this blog has been set up as part of an exercise with Edith Cowan Libraries look at Web.2 A small group of us has to go through ECU's list of 23Things

in 9 weeks. Hopefully should be a bit of a challenge and some fun.

I have set up my Gmail email and started up this Blog with very little bother really. I found the hardest part was picking a name for the blog. It seems really personal thing to say about yourself. I have a friend who has her own blog, and she has a great nickname for herself and is a very entertaining writer. So it makes me feel a bit intimidated by the whole thing, I guess I am a bit competitive, and a bit daunted by the public availablity of blogs.

I had no trouble with the week one readings, I suspect that is the easy part. It was interesting to see how they thought Web 2 could relate to libraries. Having buttons on our databases so that students could chat live to librarians was a good example. How would this work? Maybe the rostered desk librarian could interupt a person in front of them to answer a little chat that appears on their screen. You would expect it to be instant.

It seems we are on the way having completed a few podcasts in the past couple of months. What will be next for ECU Lib? Stay tuned...

Klickety