Well, I finally caught up with my Learning 2.0 'classmates' and learned (or re-learned) about social networking. So now I have a Delicious account (I still wince when saying it aloud) and imported my bookmarks from my browser at work. I have yet to 'tag' them, but I have a previous account in which my extensive links are tagged. I considered tagging them in Dewey Decimal format, but decided to put that on hold for now.
I have to admit that it is certainly a lot easily to use (edit) stuff on the Internet than when I first started out. I remember way back in the mid-1990's when my branch was part of the Rideau Township Public Library system, I was given the task to place our library information online using the tools given to us by our account at the National Capital FreeNet. The menu pages were text-only and instead of the menus you see nowadays, a person editing these pages had to memorize Unix commands and understand Unix file structures. Okay, if you're a Linux fan this is nothing to complain about, but still. The result was simple and utilitarian for a greater effort than what we do now. And with a limited readership; this was just before the Web really took off. Mind you, it wasn't the cybernetic equivalent of "walking buck-naked uphill through five kilometres of snow both ways", but editing items on the Internet by and large has become more fun.
Unless you're coding a web page using HTML.
-- Greg @ the Library
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