wk 6 Tagging

Tagging, this a word I normally assciate with gangs and things not too nice. But this is something very different especially for librarians who are used to keywords and subject headings.
This is a very usefull tool for librarians. I have registed for del.icio.us. It is very hard progress fast because you get side-tracked reading all the blogs. I am begining to wonder, there must be people around who spend a lot time on their computors. This is hands on programme so I will learn more as I use the site more.

#9 Wk 4 Library Related blogs

I found this exercise a bit confusing.Feedster would not load for me.I can locate the news feed icons but than what? Just about everything wants you to sign up, wanting your email address, you have to agree to receiving emails from the site etc.
When I found a website that I would have liked to subscribe too, it came up with this message:
No feeds were found. Please verify that the website publishes RSS feed.
After a lot of trail and error I finally found one on bolloywood news. Now that I know what to I would prefer to take my time and add only the ones I would be interested in.

Week 4: RSS and News Feed

It took me a very long time work this out.Idid not find it very user friendly. Maybe the next time I am here, I will feel more comfortable using it. At the moment I am not too sure about it.
I have add some feeds. When I went to the site, it kept asking me confirm my account. I thought I had already done that. It did say welcome Shobha and I thought I was in. Once I read the the whole RSS feeds again, it did make a little more sense. I am hoping pra ice will make me better at it. You get what what you put in I guess.
In the work place RSS could be a good way of keeping in touch with the book world e.g. new books, new author, author talks,reveiws, new techonolgy in libraries etc.,

Blogline
http://www.bloglines.com/myblogs:

Photograghy

At this point, i think I can understand how people can get hooked( is this the right word?) into all these sites. I am coming across words I have never come across before. It can be fun, it can drive you up the wall, when things don't fall into place. As with all good thing in life, you get what you put in. The advantage here is being able to talk to colleagues and discuss all the pros and cons of all the sites. One of the disadvantges is that photes take a little longer to load especially at the home computor. A three year old computor may have something to do with it. Hopefully, as I go further on I may discover some neat tricks to get around this problem.

week two

After a break of couple of days, I am back at it. I have visited Bebo, facebook and my space. there seems to a lot similities. But I think if you start using them, then one site might suit you better than the others. Certainly Bebo is very popular with teenagers. The only disadvantage of doing it this way is that as soon as you get into the flow of it you have to stop!

something new

i feel very brave doing this. I am very private person. i cannot imagine anybody wanting to know anything about me. These days we have information overload! The less you talk about your self, the more you learn about life and thing in general.

But i can understand that it can be interesting and very time consuming. If I more time, may be I would enjoy this more. Ther are certain advantages about this. I know I will feel differently when I have been on the site a few more times.

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Starting
It was certainly more than 15 mins to start ! I guess this is for people like me.
I am doing this 'cauces I have never done this before. I just wanted to what this about. I don't i would doing this often as I am a private person.