Wiki

Wiki is a good tool for collaborative projects among a group of people. Because it is on the Web, and can be accessed anywhere, it is a much better communication tool than emails for projects. Everyone can contribute their ideas, edit contents and see all the updates. I used it when I was doing the iResearch project.

Personally, I use Wikipedia a lot. I like to use it to get some general ideas on a concept or a new technology, especially when I am unfamiliar with the topics. I then do a more specific search to find out more information. It is a good starting place. For this 23 things course, I searched Wikipedia on some of the topics when I had no idea at all.

There are a lot of clever people in the world, but not everyone wants or has the opportunity to publish a book. I think Wiki is a good place to start, and the rest of us can benefit from their good ideas.

I believe students use Wikipedia often for their assignments. As a librarian, I use it often as well. I think the important thing is not to rely on one source and also do other kinds of research.

I did not create an account to edit Wiki as I can not find anything to edit, but I sesarched for various Wiki and found some interesting ones.

Delicious & Technorati

I heard about Delicious, but never have time to try it. Because this course, I decided to register and do something. I found I like this site. I did not import my bookmark, but created new ones. It is good it immdiately shows how many other people have bookmarked the same site. It gives some idea on how good/popular the site is. Tagging is an interesting concept, it encourages participation. I think it will help to promote the site as well.



Persoanlly I prefer search results from Google/Yahoo than from the Technorati, but I think they serve for different purposes. I don't normally spend time to look at blogs if I want to find information. I prefer to find a few reputable sites. Google/Yahoo allows keyword searching, and the results are relevant. Technoratic gives a lot of results, but they are not always relevant. I think it is because the tags are not always reflect the contents accurately. After all, not everyone is a catalouger.



I need to think about how they can be applied in the library. I will post my comments here when I have some ideas.

Fun

I had so much fun in the Generator Blog. It is really cool. I always wonder why every one is so creative. Now I can make some fun images of my own. I try a number of things and created an comic strip at the end (url: http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/comix.html?comix_id=385040313).

Thanks for the information. I never thought I can create something online so easily.