Library Stuff

From an article titled, Weblogs Connect People Through Journals About Everything from Book Clubs to Bands:

“A blog takes me only about a minute to update and I can do that either from home or on campus,” Bluefield State College librarian Robin Shapiro said. “I think blogs are today where the World Wide Web was when I first started using the Internet in 1995.”

“Social bookmarking is a new thing that allows people to create links to other blogs from their site,” Shapiro said. “That trend is taking individual blogging and making it a part of a larger social network.” (via Topix)

Wikicities is Wikipedia, but stepped up about 10 notches. Anyone can create a “wikicity” and anyone can contribute to one. It’s just starting out, so the content is sparse, but I can imagine what can become of it. There are 193 wikicities out there so far (including one on libraries with no content yet).

I wonder, though, if too many wiki sites will lead to too much content being spread out. Wouldn’t it be better if there was one main wiki for this type of tool. How different is Wikicities from Wikipedia? Can’t Wikicities content easily be added to Wikipedia? Am I missing something? (Link via Pro Blogger)

Alan Levine has updated his cool Multipost Bookmarklet Tool to include de.lerio.us. Now, my tags will go into Furl, del.icio.us and de.lerio.us in one click. Suweeeeeet. Thanks Alan.

Peter Scott links to a bunch of RSS Feeds from the Novia Scotia government. They have over 20 of them. Thanks Peter.

Last week, Robert Scoble gave up the daily grind of posting to his linkblog, declaring that the time spent wasn’t worth the effort. I can’t say I blame the guy.

Since I’ve been playing with de.lirio.us, I decided that I would try to continue where Robert left off. I usually have about 15 items in my drafts folder before I begin posting for the day. Everything that doesn’t make the cut to Library Stuff usually gets thrown into del.icio.us and Furl. Now, they will also be added to my linkblog (RSS Feed). It’s actually no more extra time for me at all. I decided to use de.lirio.us because I can have space for notes (and embed html in there too) which makes it the perfect linkblog tool. Don’t expect alot of postings there everyday. Just stuff that didn’t make the cut for LS (usually about 5-10 per day). Enjoy.