Week 6: Tagging & Folksonomies

This is to acknowledge that I have read up the stuff on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tags then
went on to discover Del.icio.us...... where I found looked up one of the most popular bookmarks on Delicious at the moment http://zenhabits.net/2009/01/the-socratic-method-to-great-living-5-simple-steps where guest post AlexShalman.com recommended you 'Live into your visiton, quoting Socrates “Be as you wish to seem.” ...... so true

Week 7 : Social Networking

This has been one of more pleasurable exercises for me to do - especially so that I had joined Facebook early last year and have enjoyed being discovered by old school friends, library patrons from Ballito, SA and family living overseas. One person in particular was a close friend who is now farming with her husband in the magnificent farming area of Ceres, in the Cape, South Africa - which includes angora goats & lucerne.
Visited the Hennepin Country Library and discovered the excellent programmes & services they offer to new settler groups (eg Somalis), summer reading programme (just like Manukau - encouraging students to keep up their reading during the holiday breaks!). Out of curiosity had a look at Kelly's fav. 'Dr Horribles Sing-along-blog. (different...)
www.myspace.com had an a handy alternate to online bookstores with www.fishpond.co.nz
Bebo - had a look at Auckland City Libraries space and came across John Mayer's 'interesting' diary - had to register to see all this.