iHCPL #20 You Tube & Video Sharing

I'm a long time viewer, but never posted user of YouTube.
I've received and sent video links, searched for links, and monitored certain posters.
It's to the point where I'm thinking of signing up for an account just to be able to subcribe and comment to certain posters.

One that you may have seen material from is mwesch. Mike Wesch is a professor teaching Digital Ethnography at Kansas State University. The videos posted by that class have always left me impressed and thinking. Their study and use of YouTube shows how YouTube (and its users) is changing the the way people view the world around them.

Here is an introduction to the YouTube Ethnography Project:


If you aren't able to view the embedded video, click here.

To get the full impact, search mwesch on YouTube for videos by the class and individual students.


I think the Library could use video to change the way people view the Library and how it works, but we would need to start from the customer point of view. Maybe they should see what really happens to that book they requested or returned. Hmmmm..."A day in the Life of a Book" ?

iHCPL #14 Technorati tagging

I've taken a look at Technorati and tried doing an advanced search by typing "Learning 2.0" as a keyword search in Blog posts, in tags and in the Blog Directory. The results ARE different. It also depends on whether you use the "exact phrase" option. I used the exact phrase option or quote marks for "Learning 2.0"as needed. I also tried it without and got 10X the hits since learning and 2.0 were used as separate keywords.

Searching by Blog posts using exact phrase option- There were 554 hits on blog posts.
Without the exact phrase option there were 6000+ hits. I'm sticking to "Learning 2.0" when I don't have an exact phrase option.

Searching tags gives me a variety of results because it searches for posts (127 hits), blogs (309 hits), videos (20 hits) and photos (20 x 20+ (400+) hits). Wow - a LOT of photos!

Searching the Blog Directory gave me 309 hits.

Searching results depend on how you phrase it. What you get might not be what you expect either - it depends on how someone else tagged it.

Popular blogs, searches and videos have some interesting results. I recommend checking this person's videos http://youtube.com/user/mwesch. They give you something to think about.

I'm not ready to get too involved with Technorati at this time. I may do so later.