# 17 Playing Around with Wikis

I added my favorite YouTube link and my favorite movie link to the OULibrariesLearn Wiki page. I think it's fun to edit other people's wiki page. This way I can share my favorites with others and find other's favorites. The only thing I didn't like was that I had to wait and retry again when other people was editing the page.

#16 So what's in a wiki?

I have never used wiki before. After exploring the resources of wiki I think it has good side and bad side too. The good part of wiki is: wiki is a good communication tool for people to contribute their thoughts or ideas on a group project or a discussing topic. The bad part is: you can not really trust the content in the wiki since any body can go in to change anything and not take the responsible for that.

# 15 Library 2.0

I just started to learn "Library 2.0" through "learning 2.0". Library 2.0 does have lots of new features and new technologies that the libraries can use to better serve our users. It can be also used for my personal needs.

# 14 Technorati

In Technorati, different way of searching comes out different results. At popular gage, top video, I found "Wii fit Parody". It combines exercise and fun together. I think it's the new toy I am going to get for me.

#13 Tagging and bookmarking in Deli.iciou.us

I created my own account in Del.icio.us and tagged for recipes. I like the idea of putting my favorite bookmarks in Del.icio.us. So I can trace my favorite pages wherever I am. Tagging is a great feature. I can look up stuff by tag easily. There are many more features in Del.icio.us. I'll take time to explore them later.

# 12 Rollyo

I try to search Rollyo. It took long long time to search and the result is not what I really want. Some links are unclickable.

#11 Librarything

Librarything as a personal library it's a good organizer. But not all the books I have can be added to my librarything, especially the foreign language books.

# 10 Sketch generator

http://www.dumpr.net/sketch.php

I like this sketch generator
It makes picture look plain.

# 9 Newsfeeds

I explored some of the search tools and found Topix.net is the easiest one for me to find local news that I am interested at. I also found that it's hard to locate Chinese newsfeeds in those search tools.

# 8 RSS

After creating my Blogline account and subscribe several newsfeeds to my reader I can see the benefits of RSS and newsfeeds. Using RSS can save me a lot of time. I just need to go to one place and see all the news I am interested at. As I get more familiar with RSS I’ll use this technology in my work and personal life.