YouTube

The YouTube website was really fun. Since it’s primaries time, I viewed several campaign videos. One I enjoyed was “Barack Obama Wins Delegates DC, VA, MD Music Videos Mix. It spoke to just about everyone, using all different age groups and colors. The music genre ran from folk, rap, latin, and reggae and featured well-known celebrities as well as everyday citizens. It highlighted campaign stops throughout the country showing a crowd in Iowa rallying for him. The Iowa stop goes to his point that he is the candidate for the job and that it’s not about color.

I believe U-Tube can be applied to library web sites because it taps into the youth of America. If libraries could show that they are fun and interactive and not stuffy dark rooms with lots of books, it would go a long way to promoting its image and resources.

Flickr Fun

Montagr was very intriguing in the way they used pictures of the same type to create a mosaic effect.

Flicktionary was alot of fun. It's a quick pace pictionary game that young adults and adults could really enjoy. I would definitely play it again and recommend it. It was addictive.

Importance of Tagging

Basically, tagging is an indexing tool to help one search for photos using key words. It is important becuase it allows you to categorize your photos so users can search using those categories. Community develops when users with like interests come together. By tagging photos, users can quickly find other photos of the same topic/interest. Users can then post comments, in this way a community is formed.

Exploring Flickr

Creating an account as well as uploading the picture in Flickr was easy. However, I could not figure out how to include the image in my blog post. I was able to send a test so I know that Flickr and Blogger are connected.

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Web 2.0 Awards

This site was very user friendly and categories were easily identifiable. I liked the rating categories given for each website because at a glance you could see how it was rated. In a library setting, I’d like to see it be able to be sorted by age groups also.

Technorati

The concept of Technorati as a search engine for tracking blogs, etc., using key words seems great. However, I found it difficult to search through for specific key words. As an overall collection of news and trivia, it works fine. I did find Icerocket easier to navigate.