Monday, July 9, 2007

Week #6 - Tagging, Folksonomies & Technorati

Well let me begin with Del.icio.us. I thought this was a better sight than the Rollyo. It seemed a little easier to use.

Technorati was a cool site because you could look up blogs about certain topics. I choose to look at ones about the Harry Potter spoilers. I looked not closely because I didn't want to see something that I didn't want to see. Most of them ended up being people complaining about Harry Potter and making fun of it. I can't see why people would want their blogs out there for everyone to see but I am also the same person that can't understand how people can blog about their personal lives in the first place.

Library 2.0 - After reading a few people's thoughts on Library 2.0 and what is going to happen to the library. I am agreeing with some saying who knows whats going to happen with libraries. Where will they go? Who will still visit them? What will we offer? But the reason why I am agreeing with this part is because I have a hard time making a decision and I hate telling people they are probably wrong because I happen to agree more to the fact that libraries will always be here. Even with all the new technologies that we are trying to adapt to the library so that we can stay abreast of what people need help with, I believe that we will always be here. People love to get out of the house. People love to spend money. People love to save money even more. If we keep up with all of the new technologies at a free price (if they return them on time)people will want to come here. There are always going to be people who love to save money. And even if the people who would rather spend their money on things that we can provide eventually they will come back here because they would have gone into debt purchasing items that they dont need to. I am trying to keep up with not keeping up with the Jones's. Hopefully more people will go back to living within their means and with that will stay with the libraries.

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