Random Post - Very Interesting

I found this post on Web 2.0 while randomly browsing blogs, it makes some thought provoking points. http://lindipendente.splinder.com/post/15354690/World+2.0

Murdoch University Podcasts

Murdoch University have several library podcasts. These are a guide to the library both a full library tour and the tour broken into 5 parts. They are presented by two members of the library staff. Having sampled them, they seem to be concise, comprehensive and very helpful for new students. They are intended for you to download to your MP3 or Ipod and listen to them as you walk around the library. As I have not done so, I cannot support the accuracy, but the overall feel is one of professonalism and authority. I can imagine how helpful this would be both for new students and students who have attended Murdoch for some time. It would be particularly helpful for students how are on their second or third year, do not know the library and are too embarrased to ask for help. The only problems I had was I did not like some of the wording and the man's voice was particularly annoying, but this is personal preference. The podcast (full library tour) can be found at http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/about/podcasts/audio/Full.mp3

Helen Bronleigh, 2010, Library Podcasts, Murdoch University, veiwed 10 April 2010, http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/about/podcasts/

Library Success Wiki

The Library Success Wiki is an international collection of information and links for libraries, by libraries and about libraries. The main purpose is to share innovative ideas with the library community. It was created by Meredith Farkas, who describes herself as a librarian, writer, teacher and tech geek. On the main page there is a link to the Creative Commons License. It states that you can use and change any material on the site as long as you attribute the material correctly, you do not use any of it for commercial purposes and anything you use or share must have a similar license. In order to edit pages you need to create an account, giving your email address. This site contains a wealth of information on many, many topics including community, technology, selling your library, resource sharing and countless others. There is an alphabetical list of categories and a search function. As this is essentially an indexing site, it can get tiresome going through many pages to only to get a link to another site. The website also looks old, with a simplistic Wikipedia style. This said, if you take the time to really explore the site, it can be an invaluable resource. It is also updated regularly and as it is maintained by library staff, is authoritative. The site can be found at:http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

Meredith Farkas, 2010, Library Success: A Best Practies Wiki, viewed 19 April, 2010 http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

Web 2.0 Blog

The Web 2.0 Blog is a fantastic blog created by Web 2.0 users and developers to help explain Web 2.0 and what it can do. Unfortunately it hasn't been updated since 2007 but it still contains relevant information (unusual in this day and age). It is protected by a creative commons licence and you may have noticed many, many blogs, websites, wikis, etc on or about Web 2.0 have this. Many of the links are either dead or out of date, however many of the predications they made have been fulfilled. I was particularly intrigued by the post "A.D 2007, What's Next?". It states that most of the big ideas have already been taken, thus anything "new" will be a variation on a theme and mainly more specialized versions of Facebook, YouTube, etc. This will not stop these "new" applications being very popular with modern society.

Simon T, 2007, Web 2.0 Blog, veiwed 5/7/2010, http://web2.0-blog.com/

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