This flower is an example of an Informal Double (Peony Form).
Wednesday, 14 November 2012
My Thoughts
Our lives now and in the future have an increasing involvement with technology. We become dependent upon and complacent of technology within our daily lives. I think we need to develop a more respectful attitude towards technology. Technology is power and power must be treated with care.
Becoming Information Literate helps me to stay aware of communication methods so that I can be a useful member of society. I need to know how to live within my own community and country. It is like learning how to read and write all over again.
Becoming Information Literate helps me to stay aware of communication methods so that I can be a useful member of society. I need to know how to live within my own community and country. It is like learning how to read and write all over again.
Library 2.0
Key principles
- Browser + Web 2.0 Applications + Connectivity = Full-featured OPAC
- Harness the library user in both design and implementation of services
- Library users should be able to craft and modify library provided services
- Harvest and integrate ideas and products from peripheral fields into library service models
- Continue to examine and improve services and be willing to replace them at any time with newer and better services.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_2.0
The Library 2.0 Online Public Access Catalog
See : Next-Generation Catalogs
Library 2.0 is a new way of providing library service through new Internet technologies, with emphasis on “user-centered” change and interaction. Like Web 2.0, a full-featured Library 2.0 OPAC gets better the more that users are involved in the process of interacting with the catalog and sharing content.
Librarians have been working to retool library catalogs in order to make them more useful for patrons to find, organize, and interact with information in a way that has infinite potential for user customization. These new types of catalogs are a shift from "isolated information silos" to "interlinked computing platforms."[1] In the past the information flow was mostly one way, from library to user. With new web tools information can be released to flow in every direction (library to user, user to library, library to library, and user to user).
Jessamyn West, on her librarian.net website, authored "What We Want: An OPAC Manifesto," which broke down the needs of library staff, geeks, and users in their OPAC. These valuable suggestions inform librarians of the flexibility, customizability and plain language approach that is desired by users in their OPAC. Librarians should be aware of these issues so that planning for improvement can begin.[2]
Library 2.0 is a new way of providing library service through new Internet technologies, with emphasis on “user-centered” change and interaction. Like Web 2.0, a full-featured Library 2.0 OPAC gets better the more that users are involved in the process of interacting with the catalog and sharing content.
Librarians have been working to retool library catalogs in order to make them more useful for patrons to find, organize, and interact with information in a way that has infinite potential for user customization. These new types of catalogs are a shift from "isolated information silos" to "interlinked computing platforms."[1] In the past the information flow was mostly one way, from library to user. With new web tools information can be released to flow in every direction (library to user, user to library, library to library, and user to user).
Jessamyn West, on her librarian.net website, authored "What We Want: An OPAC Manifesto," which broke down the needs of library staff, geeks, and users in their OPAC. These valuable suggestions inform librarians of the flexibility, customizability and plain language approach that is desired by users in their OPAC. Librarians should be aware of these issues so that planning for improvement can begin.[2]
- ^ Wikipedia contributors, "Web 2.0," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Web_2.0&oldid=206758560 (accessed April 20, 2008).
- ^ Jessamyn West and friends, What We Want: An OPAC Manifesto, http://www.librarian.net/opac/
Web 2.0
Web 2.0 - What is it?
Web 2.0 was coined in 1999 to describe web sites that use technology beyond the static pages of earlier web sites. Although web 2.0 suggests a new version of the World Wide Web, it does not refer to an update to any technical specification, but rather to cumulative changes in the ways software developers and end-users use the Web. [1][2]A Web 2.0 site may allow users to interact and collaborate with each other in a social media dialogue as creators of user-generated content in a virtual community, in contrast to websites where people are limited to the passive viewing of content. Examples of Web 2.0 include social networking sites, blogs, wikis, video sharing sites, hosted services, web applications, mashups and folksonomies.[3]
The term "Web 2.0" was first used in January 1999 by Darcy DiNucci, a consultant on electronic information design (information architecture). In her article, "Fragmented Future", DiNucci writes:[6]
The Web we know now, which loads into a browser window in essentially static screenfuls, is only an embryo of the Web to come. The first glimmerings of Web 2.0 are beginning to appear, and we are just starting to see how that embryo might develop. The Web will be understood not as screenfuls of text and graphics but as a transport mechanism, the ether through which interactivity happens. It will [...] appear on your computer screen, [...] on your TV set [...] your car dashboard [...] your cell phone [...] hand-held game machines [...] maybe even your microwave oven.
Characteristics
Web 2.0 websites allow users to do more than just retrieve information. By increasing what was already possible in "Web 1.0", they provide the user with more user-interface, software and storage facilities, all through their browser. This has been called "network as platform" computing.[2] Major features of Web 2.0 include social networking sites, user created web sites, self-publishing platforms, tagging, and social bookmarking. Users can provide the data that is on a Web 2.0 site and exercise some control over that data.[2][14] These sites may have an "architecture of participation" that encourages users to add value to the application as they use it.[1][2] Some scholars have made the case that cloud computing is a form of Web 2.0 because cloud computing is simply an implication of computing on the Internet.[15]
The concept of Web-as-participation-platform captures many of these characteristics. Bart Decrem, a founder and former CEO of Flock, calls Web 2.0 the "participatory Web"[16] and regards the Web-as-information-source as Web 1.0.Web 2.0 offers all users the same freedom to contribute. While this opens the possibility for serious debate and collaboration, it also increases the incidence of "spamming" and "trolling" by unscrupulous or less mature users. The impossibility of excluding group members who don’t contribute to the provision of goods from sharing profits gives rise to the possibility that serious members will prefer to withhold their contribution of effort and free ride on the contribution of others.[17] This requires what is sometimes called radical trust by the management of the website. According to Best,[18] the characteristics of Web 2.0 are: rich user experience, user participation, dynamic content, metadata, web standards and scalability. Further characteristics, such as openness, freedom[19] and collective intelligence[20] by way of user participation, can also be viewed as essential attributes of Web 2.0.
Key features of Web 2.0 [21] include
- Folksonomy : Free Classification of Information
- Rich User Experience
- User as a Contributor
- Long Tail
- User Participation
- Basic Trust
- Dispersion
Wednesday, 7 November 2012
Podcasts
Looking at the BBC podcasts site was one way to explore the world. I discovered some podcasts are only available in England, so I needed to select the Worldwide option. My preference is Documentaries and I chose to review the full two years records.
The tie is a symbol of power, sexuality, belonging and musical style. Within the corporate workforce red is the dominant colour. A tie points to male genitals and the Paisley pattern looks like sperm. School colours and patterns indicate belonging. East coast America in 1957 favoured the narrow tie to represent their cool music.
The tie is a symbol of power, sexuality, belonging and musical style. Within the corporate workforce red is the dominant colour. A tie points to male genitals and the Paisley pattern looks like sperm. School colours and patterns indicate belonging. East coast America in 1957 favoured the narrow tie to represent their cool music.
Why Do We Wear A Tie?
Ties
Fri, 21 Sep 12 Duration: 18 mins
Why do we do the things we do? Mike Williams searches for the extraordinary and hidden histories behind everyday objects and actions. This week, why do we wear ties?
To listen to this podcast click on the following URL then click on the "Go to link". The volume is a bit loud, adjust this by clicking on the speaker icon and scroll down.
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20120921-1850a.mp3
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