Week 7 Discover 2

Ok I played with Techonrati earlier (back around week two or somthing) and I wasn't really impressed with the site, yes it allows you to search for blogs, but is it really user friendly? Not really. And after playing with it again this week I'm still not a huge fan of it. But having said that it does get around to making links to a lot of blogs. I was really surprised, ok so I was really tired at the time and wanted something mindless to search for, I did a search for my user name to see if it had picked up this blog yet but found that it had found my other blog over on Live Journal. Very cool I must admit :0D Ok and I will admit that it was easier to use now that I am more familiar with it....but for those who are new to Technorati...maybe not.

Library Thing is WONDERFUL. I love it :o) It's a one stop pit stop for all those who love to read! And the fact that you can sort your own library and books you've read is just so much FUN! Also good if you know what your looking for so that you can see what other people have thought about it (no more getting stuck buying really crappy books) and you can leave your own reviews....what better way of sharing books are there (ok for you purists out there the face to face way is probably preferable, but for those of you like me who tend to read at 2am and do computer stuff at odd hours it just rocks!) But more on my adventures with Library Thing in my next post...when I have more than 30 seconds to spare :o)

Ok so I've just spent some time (ok so more than I probably should have) looking at some of the blogs that people are keeping for the Learning 2.0 and I have to say I'm so impressed with most of the entries! Being so far away from others out here you tend to get a little isolated and forget that there are other people out there doing the same things as you! But I've had a great time surfing around, checking out what people are thinking about the course so far and some of their own experiences.

Ok so this is not my first blog (my main blog is over at Live Journal - very cool site to play on), and I've played with most of the things the course covers, even if it is to to be able to say that hey yeah I've seen it and I know it's there. But this going to be so much fun, and give me the added confidence to share my knowledge with both other staff members and our public :o) My other blog is mainly concerned with fanfiction, both my own and using it to keep track of groups with like interests. So checking out other blogs that are kind of more serious in nature has been great and has had the added bonus of making me actually want to surf outside of my comfort zones again, which I haven't done out of work time for ages...you know how it is. You get your favourite sites and you stick to them.

I found it really interesting reading the 7 1/2 habits of Life Long Learning, it's interesting how today these habits are so common, most people tend to take them for granted! But that is what habits are all about I suppose.

As for Week 2's session, Blog, I like many others (or so I've been reading) have severly underestimated the uses and varity of blogs that are out there. However I have to agree with some people about Technorati, I found it kind of frustrating. Maybe it was just the way that I was searching, but I tended to find a lot of crud before I found anything even remotly close to what I was looking for. But as with most things I guess the more you play with it the easier it will be to use it :o)

So now it's off to either do some more work....or maybe I'll just start Week 3's session......