Ok I've investigated Technorati and read the latest blogs on iPhone - which has convinced me to upgrade my existing ipod and mobile into an iphone. Also I had a first look at Boing Boing which I really like as a social networking tool .... nice work.
Back to Technorati soon - now, checkout this snip:
" Welcome to Technorati
Currently tracking 92.6 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media.
Technorati is the recognized authority on what's happening on the World Live Web, right now. The Live Web is the dynamic and always-updating portion of the Web. We search, surface, and organize blogs and the other forms of independent, user-generated content (photos, videos, voting, etc.) increasingly referred to as “citizen media.”
But it all started with blogs. A blog, or weblog, is a regularly updated journal published on the web. Some blogs are intended for a small audience; others vie for readership with national newspapers. Blogs are influential, personal, or both, and they reflect as many topics and opinions as there are people writing them.
Blogs are powerful because they allow millions of people to easily publish and share their ideas, and millions more to read and respond. They engage the writer and reader in an open conversation, and are shifting the Internet paradigm as we know it.
On the World Live Web, bloggers frequently link to and comment on other blogs, creating the type of immediate connection one would have in a conversation. Technorati tracks these links, and thus the relative relevance of blogs, photos, videos etc. We rapidly index tens of thousands of updates every hour, and so we monitor these live communities and the conversations they foster.
The World Live Web is incredibly active, and according to Technorati data, there are over 175,000 new blogs (that’s just blogs) every day. Bloggers update their blogs regularly to the tune of over 1.6 million posts per day, or over 18 updates a second.
Technorati. Who's saying what. Right now.
Technorati Media Contact
Jeff Koo
415-321-1866
jeff@sparkpr.com "
I looked up Del.icio.us on Wikipedia to get a definition of social book marking / tagging, thus
"The website del.icio.us (pronounced as "delicious") is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. The site was founded by Joshua Schachter in late 2003, and is now part of Yahoo!."
Then I found this interesting link which shows how MIT is using del.icio.us for Virtual Reference - interesting link:
MIT Libraries Virtual Reference
Saturday, July 7, 2007
Week 5 - Things 10, 11 & 12
I've had fun with the image generator - see "star" below - I probably should think about changing this. (nb - I intend to post my holiday snaps to flickr!!)
I've catalogued a small collection of Tasmanian Tiger books onto Library Thing. The fate of this beautiful animal should sadden us all :
This is film of the last Tasmanian Tiger:
Also - this is what Stephen Abrams from SirsiDynix has to say about Library Thing:
" Stephen's Lighthouse
July 4, 2007
LibraryThing
As I predicted at ALA, LibraryThing is still growing - and quickly.
Here are the top 100 largest libraries in the US by volume.
LibraryThing has passed Harvard University, the second-largest library in the United States. LibraryThing members have cataloged some 15,731,298 books, putting them 175,000 copies above Harvard's count.
That's cool. Now we all know sheer numbers aren't the only measurement but it is quite a collaborative accomplishment. As they note in their post, there are other ways to review collections, like suitability of collections for purpose, diversity and quality evaluations, depth measurements, etc.are valid views too. If we look at OCLC's WorldCat title measurement it's well over 85,000,000 titles and 1 billion holdings growing at 1 every 10 seconds - yet we'd never call it comprehensive. So LT has a way to go if they count other electonric collections like SirsiDynix's NDP or OCLC, etc. or if the world of libraries started to aggregate their own collections in a thoughtful way...
I wonder how big the Amazon database is? I'll' have to check.
LibraryThing is one of the most interesting library projects to watch. I met the founder, Tim Spalding, at ALA. There's more to this project than meets the eye...
Stephen
Posted by stephen at July 4, 2007 2:41 PM "
I've use Rollyo to generate a custom search engine which will search for "Reference Desk Stuff" across a list of technology sites - the results are very useful.
Rollyo: Roll Your Own Search Engine
I've catalogued a small collection of Tasmanian Tiger books onto Library Thing. The fate of this beautiful animal should sadden us all :
This is film of the last Tasmanian Tiger:
Also - this is what Stephen Abrams from SirsiDynix has to say about Library Thing:
" Stephen's Lighthouse
July 4, 2007
LibraryThing
As I predicted at ALA, LibraryThing is still growing - and quickly.
Here are the top 100 largest libraries in the US by volume.
LibraryThing has passed Harvard University, the second-largest library in the United States. LibraryThing members have cataloged some 15,731,298 books, putting them 175,000 copies above Harvard's count.
That's cool. Now we all know sheer numbers aren't the only measurement but it is quite a collaborative accomplishment. As they note in their post, there are other ways to review collections, like suitability of collections for purpose, diversity and quality evaluations, depth measurements, etc.are valid views too. If we look at OCLC's WorldCat title measurement it's well over 85,000,000 titles and 1 billion holdings growing at 1 every 10 seconds - yet we'd never call it comprehensive. So LT has a way to go if they count other electonric collections like SirsiDynix's NDP or OCLC, etc. or if the world of libraries started to aggregate their own collections in a thoughtful way...
I wonder how big the Amazon database is? I'll' have to check.
LibraryThing is one of the most interesting library projects to watch. I met the founder, Tim Spalding, at ALA. There's more to this project than meets the eye...
Stephen
Posted by stephen at July 4, 2007 2:41 PM "
I've use Rollyo to generate a custom search engine which will search for "Reference Desk Stuff" across a list of technology sites - the results are very useful.
Rollyo: Roll Your Own Search Engine
Things 8 and 9
I have set-up some RSS feeds, both to my home account, my iPod and through gmail at work. I find Stephen's Lighthouse particularly useful as both a RSS feed and a Blogcast.
On my bloglines account I now monitor a number of professional (library) bloggers and supplement this with technology and security discussions.
I use my iPod daily to mitigate the drudge of the daily commute. RSS and Blogs mean I do not have to read the professional journals to keep-up with stuff.
I think the xml containers which underly this stuff, when combined with web-services , will revolutionise information construction and delivery.
On my bloglines account I now monitor a number of professional (library) bloggers and supplement this with technology and security discussions.
I use my iPod daily to mitigate the drudge of the daily commute. RSS and Blogs mean I do not have to read the professional journals to keep-up with stuff.
I think the xml containers which underly this stuff, when combined with web-services , will revolutionise information construction and delivery.
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