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After reading through this week’s material a few things come to mind. First of all, as Ellyssa Kroski explains, folksonomies won’t replace LC classification for traditional libraries. But since the web would be impossible to classify in this traditional way, folksonomies are pretty handy. What they lose out on in hierarchical searching, they make up for by simply getting the job done.

Why
did we Choose Furl?

After surveying a number of different
software options, including del.icio.us, connotea, citeulike and Zotero, we
settled on furl. It has the cleanest interface, and offers the right blend of
2.0 technology and traditional search capability.

Interface

Until next week, Andrea

Talk to you all next week...

Like many others, I was very confused by the Dublin library page -and had to take time to orient myself. Another thing I couldn't help noticing was how big the PageFlakes logo was, as compared with the Dublin library logo. This makes it difficult to know where you are.

I’ve known for a long time that RSS could be very useful but hadn’t taken the time to set anything up yet (so, thank you Amanda). It’s great now to have the basics and also to know about things like Newsisfree, integrating email and RSS, and using alerts in Proquest and EBSCO. RSS seems really flexible and easy to use.

From the readings and case studies this week I think that some good guidelines for blogs are:

• Have a clear purpose and audience, and let this guide what gets posted

• Make entries of a consistent (and brief) length

• Provide an “about me” section

• Provide an “about this blog” section

• Use a reasonable number of categories, with sensible headings

• Edit!