One more thing

If I had to pick, I'm most impressed with the Search Roll technology of the new things tried. There's something to be said for formal exploration, so I'm subscribing by email to Learning 2.1 and seeing how well I keep up. Watch this space for more...

More relevant?

Facebook's Ohio Network is huge- but I found a tidier group named "Addicted to Alden" and found a good number of Learning 2.0 Facebook collegues. Other suggestions welcome- I'd love to use a site like this to field ref questions- is anyone having success on that front?

podcasting

My own first effort at recording a potential podcast is still in in production, but in navigating Podcasting.net to my RSS feeds, I found one like what I'd wish to do. Have a peak at Don't Panic: Information Resources For When Your Deadline Looms! from the Library Channel, one of the more relevant of 259 entries under "reference" I'd found there back on the 9th.

Found at Youtube- my sister

When my sister told me she'd been in a commerical for a Mr. Clean that was posted at Youtube, I'd smiled indulgently. But I've found it by searching for "Mr. Clean Commerical" at the site, titled the Wager. She's clearly going for exasperation in the clip- see if you like it as well as I do.

Web 2.0 winners

Under the topic "Philanthropy" (not to be confused with "Philosophy," natch), Donorschoose looks like the way philanthropy should be done. Proposals and progress toward goals are shown together, with a option to throw some money toward a specific project built right in. I’m staggered that this was the #2 choice of the winners in its category.

Google progress

I rather like the webbased Google products- here's a doc I made to summarize my Learning 2.0 progress to date.

Fast look at a wiki

I've been to the alternative PBWiki site and added a book review- something not featured below yet. But for those interested, Stax the library cat's favorite wiki for local course-related library instruction is here

2.0 anyone?

Tim Berners-Lee has a quote I'd like to see applied to libraries, too: "Let's use the Web to help people understand each other.” We made the jump from clay tablets to scrolls to codexes to the ubiquitous bound book; we'll make this one as well. Transmission mediums change, but content is the goal.

Baggage claim

Odd to find myself first when searching for "oulibraries" tag here today. But I've got my blog luggage claimed, and having these entries tagged made it easier. It's been several days since I'd checked previously, and I'd not show up when finding 3966, 16, and 491 hits respectively under the "Learning 2.0" tag for All Blogs, Tag search, and Blog directory searches. No surprizes among Technorati top searches, nor over duplication between the top "favorited" and top blog columns-- Boing Boing would appear to be the pick of the lot.

Tastes ok

The usual websites from my roll below I've tagged in del.cio.us, and found that of scads of other philosophy items bookmarked, the metaphysics entry from our Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Didn't know we could bookmark our paid resources. I've added it as well to mine at http://del.icio.us/refhobbit

Keep on rollin'

Select Search Engine...My RefhelperSearch The Web

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my Refhelper has some tried and true sites to search- perhaps try Kierkegaard to get a sense of it. Here's what's on the roll:

http://www.academicinfo.net/
http://infomine.ucr.edu/
http://www.intute.ac.uk/
http://lii.org/
http://www.digital-librarian.com/
http://www.ipl.org/ref/
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/philinks.htm

My taste is showing

Or perhaps its absence- some of my choices attract a respectable crowd, but others are quite poorly attested. Available at http://www.librarything.com/catalog/refhobbit

Cuneiform rocks

Stax, library cat, spelled for the author of Gilgamesh. Yeah, I know they were clay tablets, but hey. Try it out yourself here

For those with a preference

Though there’d be reasons to use all the featured options, I like Blogline’s search tool best. lii shows up in the most popular- it was also easy to find LJ’s reference review feed.

Reference sources with RSS

Access Science, Oxford English Dictionary, and Safari Tech are 3 of our reference sources that offer RSS- you may want to add them to your feeds.

Library cat ala Warhol- Stax boldy goes where http://aldenversion2point0.blogspot.com/ has gone before- with thanks!

How about those ebooks?

On technology and money, from CNN, Paul Sloan on ebooks; “Virtual book, real money.” Kind of makes them sound like the new vanity press. Read it at
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/06/01/100050985/ Guess we don’t want to tell Michael Gorman about this- check out his comments on the whole 2.0 thing, conveniently located on one of our participating blogs at http://smitherines.wordpress.com/

Library cat

We have one here- see a picture at http://www.flickr.com/photos/refhobbit

for the original picture, plus his new library trading card

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Easy or hard habits?

On the 7 & 1/2 habits of highly effective learners (at http://www.plcmc.org/public/learning/player.html ), I'd have to say first is the easiest personally, and the last half (7.5) is hardest. Like many others of you with or working toward a degree, visualizing the end (that sheepskin blazoned M.L.S in my case) was the easy (and most motivational) part of the process. But permission (to ones self) to play on the way is hard. The undesired result is often working harder, but not smarter.

First test

How does this look?