Zoho Writer and Google Docs

I've used both Zoho Writer and Google Docs. I used Zoho Writer for this exercise and Google Docs months ago. I find that they are both very adequate word processors. I noticed that Zoho Writer has the ability to e-mail your document or post it to your blog. I suspect Google Docs also has the capability, but I'll have to check.

Sandbox Wiki

I'm sorry to say that PBwiki would not let me in no way no how. I appreciate the idea of a "sandbox" to play in and express whatever we wish, but I couldn't get in!!

Wikis

Wikis seem to be a really useful tool. All of those that I looked at require you to have permission to access the workspace. This permission is essential of course, otherwise you'd have all sorts of pranksters posting to your wiki. Wikis seem to be the tool to use, if a group of people need to collaborate on a project. I really loved the book lovers wiki!

Library 2.0

I really enjoyed reading these articles, especially "Away from the icebergs" and "Into a new world of librarianship". I liked the iceberg analogy, that we should avoid pitfalls such as the unnecessary "collecting" of items that already exist and are accessible to our patrons on the Web. The latter article, "Into a new world...", lists those qualities a "Librarian 2.0" should have, such as involving our users in decisions about library services, and making library services available where the user wants them, whether in the traditional library or at home on the Web. In my opinion, all of these articles, make us aware of "the big picture" with the library world; that big changes are occurring.

Technorati: The only search with any results was in Blog Posts. I searched for the key words "Learning 2.0". The results were relevant and kind of interesting. I also searched for my favorite blog, "French-word-a-day" to check out what tags are attached. I played around with the site and looked at Travel and Family blogs. I don't think I'll use this site very much.

Delicious: This is kind of cool. For instance there is a website French-Word-a-Day, which is a blog that I always read, so I entered that in Delicious and got a list of other people who have bookmarked this site. It was interesting to see how they tagged this site and what other sites they have bookmarked. I'll definitely go back to Delicious. Very interesting!

Rollyo: I honestly had a lot of trouble with this site. First of all, it was extremely slow loading. Then when I finally got into it and learned about how you could create your own web engine that would search just sites that you trust, I was kind of excited for it to work. I figured I would make my own travel and health search engines. I gave up though because it was too sloooow.