Thoughts on Week 5: Tagging, Social Bookmarking & Folksonomies

Activity 1:

Searched del.icio.us for the term "blogosphere".

Related del.icio.us tags: blogs blog blogging blogosphere web2.0 news technorati search media rss

Results: 12601

The tags were useful. I clicked on a few of the links in del.icio.us which led to relevant posts about the blogosphere. Like this one, for example. I did find my search in del.icio.us to be slow loading. I tried it on two computers.

A search on Google for blogosphere returned nearly 20 million hits. A few of the results on the first page looked promising, but obviously this amount of hits is too large if one is looking for specific info about the blogosphere. This is where the del.icio.us tags come in handy.

Activity 2:

I have been playing around with Del.icio.us tags on a computer at work. It's a really easy way to tag and bookmark things. That said, I find the del.icio.us button annoying and hard to get rid of one you install it. I prefer Google for bookmarking anyway, so I think I'll pass on using this 2.0 for now!

Activity 3:

Flickr's fun. Check out this cool picture I found browsing the Flickr tag "cat":

"Lookout."

Activity 4:

See number 2!

Facebook for Fiftysomethings

Slate's Emily Yoffe joins Facebook and shares her experience. A good read!

Thoughts on Week 4: Wikis

TENSHUN!

I've added a page to the pbwiki of some of my favourite movies I've seen recently. Check the list out here. I found it difficult figuring out how to add my page to the sidebar. I eventually added it by editing the Sidebar and simply adding a hyperlink to my page. Today I will investigate some of the other features of the wiki and report back here.

DISMISSED!

Update:

Thoughts on the two wikis: I liked the wetpaint wiki more than the PBWiki. I found navigation, adding pages, links and comments, etc., to be more straightfoward using wetpaint.

In the Digital Reference Shelf I added a few links to an existing page, and also created a new page called Business Sources. As mentioned above, in the PBWiki, I added a page listing some recent favourite movies. I also made a couple of comments. I had difficulty deleting a page, but eventually figured it out.

In general, both wikis were functional and fairly straightfoward to edit, thouhg If I had to choose between the two, I would prefer to use the wetpaint wiki.

DeVotchKa

I can't believe it's taken me this long to hear about this band. Weird.

Anywho, they're a great band, with a unique sound. I'd say the sound a bit like Okkervil River, Nick Cave, and Beirut.

They've got a few songs on the Little Miss Sunshine soundtrack.

Thoughts on Week 3: RSS

I chose Google Reader to handle RSS feeds. It's very easy to subscribe to feeds, and I like the clean looking layout.

I've subscribed to a few feeds and added them to the blog (Google News, Slate, TSN).

Wikipedia "expert" a phony...

"A professor with degrees in theology and canon law, one of the Wikipedia's "most prolific contributors and editors" who'd contributed to an estimated 20,000 Wikipedia entries, has turned out to be a fake."

Rest here.

Perhaps my worst pet peeve...

Lids that don't stick. Is there no quality control at the plant which manufactures coffee lids for Tim Hortons?

Wild Hogs tops the box office!

An instant classic. Citizen Kane, move over.