Week 6 Thing #14 Technorari and tags

Technorati Profile

Technorati is amazing. I love tagging. I have tagged everything in my bookmarks and favorites.
I spent quite some time (way too much) searching many tags. I just shocked to see 3 hours passed while I was searching second life and virtual worlds. All the talk of Web3 kinda freaks me out. At this rate I won't have to worry about NOT being a lifelong learner. I hope I can catch up and keep up. About a month ago I saw an amazing video on second life in the universities in Texas. I didn't save it, and I cannot find it. I am bummed. I am obsessed and it is driving me crazy.
I don't see a downside of Technorati unless you consider loss of time, obssesive disorder, and sitting for hours straight a downside.
I have always searched for blogs on Technorati to read on library issues and book reviews, so I was familiar with it, just had never claimed a blog to it until now. I tried to add the cloud widget of labels, but could not figure out where to paste the url. Braindead!
I would be in heaven if School Libraries on the Net could somehow get tagged. Our school district web master would love to have all our sites tagged. Most teachers have stated they don't want to share and don't want others to be able to use their documents or ppts or podcasts. He will make it so they have a choice to share or keep private. It would be great if he could add a link to every website so the eachers could learn more about Web2. I get a little too enthusiastic and send the staff e-mails about what I am learning constantly. They always thank me, but they are probably sick of me. My principal loves it! I'm sure when this class is finished, she will make a huge deal of me knowing web2. It seems I always start each e-mail with ,"I promise this is the last e-mail about web2, but this is so cool". They just laugh. Then they want to see how it is done. I even send stuff to our tech department at the district. No one had heard of a ning. I was so proud. They are scrambling to stay ahead of me because they know I will not let up. I told them we (5 of us from our district are doing this tutorial), are going to be dangerous. We will be geekier than they are. I can't wait!

Week 6 (pre)Thing 13

I finally got the del.icio.us video to play on my computer. The problem was in the settings on my computer, but I really have no idea where. I just kept changing things until it worked. Now, I am so enthralled in Library Thing, Technorati, and Del.icio.us that I haven't had time to post. I have watched at least 5-6 videos on web2 that have been great. I got stuck on Joyce Valenza's blog, then realized she is the one that created LM_NET wikispaces. Everywhere I search comes up with this lady's name. Springfield Virtual Libary, again Joyce Valenza. Sometimes, I wonder where these people come from? I want her to conduct a seminar in Orange County, California so we can see her. She will probably be on second life before I even figure second life out. Web2 ,defined by wikipedia, is overtaking my life. I had to catch up with web1 in order to understand web2.

The nings I joined are now producing e-mails sent to me asking to be my friend. This is pretty weird for me as I do not know what that entails. Do I have to join certain friends to comment or ? I suppose I will accept and see what it is about.