LIS 9763

1.    Has your view of social software changed since starting this course? If so, how?

To be honest apart from blogs, Facebook and Myspace I wasn’t really sure what social software was.  This course introduced me to RSS, Delicious, Tweeting and Flickr just to name a few.  So yes, my view has changed completely.  I would say that I have a better understanding of the programs, how they work and how they can be applied in a library setting.

I will be taking a Blog Holiday this week (week 13).  Lots and lots of stuff to do!

When developing our group project for this class there was some debate about what kind of content we would allow our teen users to tag.  After deliberation we decided that the librarians would monitor the content and would filter out content that was obscene, racist, threatening, unrelated and personal.  This kind of content and more was mentioned by Haskell and David Lee King.  Some

This week’s topic is one that I have only dabbled in before now.  I don’t have a Flickr account and I only go on to YouTube to watch videos, I have never uploaded anything.  Because of this I found it difficult to imagine how a library could use these applications to better promote itself.  After reading the articles especially the ones by Michael Stephens, Paula Webb and

I found this week’s topic much more relevant to my experiences than I thought.  You see I am one of these girlfriends who is always nagging her boyfriend to stop playing the “vids”.  So when I saw that this week was gaming and virtual worlds I thought I was going to be opposed to the entire concept.

Hi everyone,
I am going to take my first blog holiday this week.
See you next week.
 

Huh!  If I had known what “Folksonomy” meant I wouldn’t have gone on my cataloguing rant a few weeks ago.  Oh well, this just gives me a chance to take a crack at it from another angle: the drawbacks. As much as I think Folksonomies are of benefit to users because they are non-institutional, intuitive to at least the users who create them and democratic, I also acknowledge that they hold some major shortcomings.

Tagging is a hot topic in the library science world these days because of classification.  For some time now, the internet has allowed people to access information they wanted on the web.  Now we can store that information and even organize it in a way that makes sense to us as individuals.  No more of these inverted subject headings and outdated (sometimes offensive) terms given to us by the library of congress. 

Wikis are, by definition, great tools for collaboration.  I just read an article called Old is Gold: Integrating older workers in CSCW. (see bottom for citation) CSCW is “computer supported cooperative work”.  An example of a CSCW system is a wiki.  The article was actually about making these systems more usable for older workers.  What I found interesting, and relevant to this coure, is the reasons for why this is so important.