Technorati or Moriarti

Yes that is a play and a slight edit on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's beloved Sherlock Holmes nemesis.  Anyway, so technorati is actually very cool. I spent many minutes looking at some of the most interesting information ever.  SO what do I think this can do for libraries?  Well you now are opening people up to tagging and blogs that are not written but fools with no clue but are being created by intelligent people with valid ideas or at least genuine ones.  Here is a good example of a blog a friend of mine does.  If you read and understand it, I am impressed. http://thepolywellblog.blogspot.com/ and this is a perfect example of good blogs creating a place to share ideas.

social bookmarking is delicious

So after looking at delicious I have come to the conclusion that some bookmarks are better than others.  For researching or helping to create an information web around a topic or related topics this is brilliant.  The problem? Who looks at the links to make sure they are of value?  Some of the links were great under the library setting.  Others were horrendous garbage that was bookmarked by multiple people and whos application was limited.  Great tool but it depends on how it is used.

RSS or holy s*^! information overload

Well I just searched some wonderful sights about RSS feeds and topixs and real time search I liked the best.  The other two just annoyed me.  There are alot of RSS feeds out there and sorting through them takes a great deal of time.   But these searching sites help to narrow your search and make it easier to find things.  Google also has some helpful RSS finding tools which give the rss feed to popular sites like yahoo sports and CNN.  Take a look and sift through the information overload.

RSS or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Well if you have the time and want the latest updates for whatever interests you every day than RSS is right for you.  If you subscribe to the feeds you will have information from websites exploding into what ever reader you use.  Personally I am not sure how I feel about it.  Its cool that you have the opportunity to have all your information presorted.  On the other hand the way to learn new things is by browsing new things.  If you do not have a variety than your information will be streamlined from a single source.  Libraries could use this in an obvious way, have feeds from important library websites like ALA so you can stay on top of it all. 

Stoker's fable and LibriVox

As Halloween is directly around the corner, I thought it would be appropriate to use LibriVox to look up Bram Stoker's Dracula.  Written as a series of journal entries it chronicles the tale of how Dracula leaves his castle and ventures to London where he is hunted by Van Helsing.  http://librivox.org/dracula-by-bram-stoker/ here is the link for anyone who wants to take a look... I mean listen to what happens.  This website has a number of books in the public domain that a librarian could direct patrons to.

Podcasts

This is probably one of the most useful tools for a library because you can directly tell your patrons what is up.  A weekly podcast segment from your local library could be short yet sweet and inform people about whatever it is you think they should know. http://feeds.feedburner.com/LibrarySurvivalGuide  I thought this one was quite interesting and what I did was searched for Library catalogs and this was the second one I listened to and thought it had some good tips.  See library blogging is informative.

Fun with youtube and CoCo

I choose this video because I love Conan O'Brien and have missed CoCo.  If the embedded link works it will be pretty cool but I think that libraries can use this tech to help sell themselves.

website

So I did my personal website and put in alot of time and I think it is not that amazing but It literally took me hours to do so idk if thats a good thing or not.  Either way it is done and I used dreamweaver which I still do not understand but at least now I can kinda use.