Learning 2.0 Blogs Make fascinating Reading

I just wanted to write a quick post congratulating all the Learning 2.0 participants for their blogs. I know I haven't been doing much commenting on your posts in the last few weeks and I apologise for that. Like all of you I'm getting busier as the year moves on but rest assured that while I haven't been commenting as much lately I am reading your thoughts. I am really fascinated by the range of views being expressed on the different tools you are exploring.

There are a couple of tasks that seem to be generating wide ranging views and I find this the most interesting aspect of the program, at least from an administrators point of view. RSS feeds seem to polarise people - some of you love it and some of you just don't rate it. As an RSS junkie I find this fascinating as I personally think that this saves me a hell of a lot of time and effort in keeping up with what's happening.

The social bookmarking / tagging task also seems to have been one of the more thought provoking tasks, generating some of the more interesting responses from you all, especially in terms of allowing the general public to add tags to library catalogues or web resources. MySpace and Facebook (Social Networks) are another area that people seem to have distinct views about.

At this point I would like to recommend that if you haven't already you should check out some of the blogs of the other participants in the program to get some other viewpoints. Remember, if your blog doesn't appear in this list you should head over to del.icio.us and add it to the ssclearning2 account, tagged with the word blog (don't use blogging or blogs or any other variant). The instructions/login are there on task 5.

One final note. Part of the reason that I haven't been commenting so much is that I have been asked to speak about some of this web 2.0 stuff and how it might impact on library services at the upcoming (May 21) Reference Seminar at the State Library. I've been busy putting my thoughts together getting ready for that. If you're interested you can read some of the stuff I've written on the RISG blog, which is part of the reason why I was asked to speak. You can also see some of my brainstorming mind maps that I used to structure what I wanted to speak about. I'll let everyone know how the talk goes.