Technorati

So we see that blogs are now very available all web2.0, and - accelerating - we've a way to catalog, tag, and gather for consideration a presentation of selected blogs. This is exciting. In these few weeks, I have certainly come to understand that many of the connections I imagined as possible in-the-future are already here for our considerate and intelligent use. The element of acceleration is very much my feeling here as I reflect that these web2.0 tools place within our grasp truly multi-dimensional reach for interrelating ideas, for binding in mutual relation various currents of thought. Vannevar Bush, in his 1945 essay, "As We May Think," anticipates a study machine he calls the memex. One important capability of the memex is the capacity to juxtapose for study purposes a selection of documents, sources, streams of information. When Tim Berners Lee wrote his program World Wide Web - and it was in 1990 - he practically realized some of the imaginings of Ted Nelson and others for directly linking one study element with any number of others. Now, in web2.0 - in Technorati and these other applications - we are surely advancing on an accessible path.

Here is my first Technorati work:
http://technorati.com/faves/wanaquelibrary?show=blogs

Tags / del.icio.us

This is another new service with much useful potential. As I go along in the PALSPlus2.0 course, I am amazed and grateful that I am often experiencing a personal readiness such that I can apply these new tools to my existing work and projects seamlessly. The timeliness of Web2.0 is clear. Tags work with del.icio.us shows promise for various applications. My first thought is to use this program as an enhanced Works Cited page for my website work. In this way, readers would not only be able to access source information but to further make leaping connections between works shown as interrelated. This hyper-associative aspect of Web2.0 is thrilling. Our learning and the very research process itself is greatly facilitated in ways that never before existed in human history. We are fortunate.

For this introduction, I have begun to work with materials available for Wanaque Borough local history. Thank you, PALSPlus2.0 Committee!

http://del.icio.us/wanaquelibrary

Rollyo As Site-Search

My use of Rollyo so far is that of a one-site search for my website on hypertext theory. For some reason unknown to me, I was getting some sort of noise responses with multiple URLs listed. I will look into this further when I have enough time. For now, though, I have been able to establish the JavaScript Site Search capability of Process Truing Alcove. It is available in the left-hand features bar on this Blog, making my personal website fully searchable by keyword. The only preference further that I would advance is a hope for such interface without extraneous sponsored links diluting direct purpose.

LibraryThing

This service is bright; more than a toy, I would say. Here is my work so far, in hopes that genuine personal interest proves worthy as theory.
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/wanaquelibrary

I want to explore the linking of my selections to the choices of other participants.

Catalog Card Generator

This generator offers a lesson in humility for us all.
http://tinyurl.com/2n76ed

Remember deleting catalog cards after weeding the non-fiction?
It's getting better all the time!

Technology and Perception

Consider the following current reference:
http://tinyurl.com/yw6vm5

As a species we characteristically learn in terms of focus lighted or even newly realized by our emerging technology. In 1929, Soviet filmaker Dziga Vertov - art name meaning 'Spinning Top' - prepared a film called, Man with the Movie Camera. Before he was silenced, he celebrated the movie camera as perceptual artifact, itself changing reality and our acknowledgement of history as changing second-by-second within the camera's view and because of the camera's actuality. Further, whatever photographs have presently been taken of 1870, will for all history be the only photographs taken of 1870. There will never in history be photographs of 1770! To our minds, 1870 has a photographic-reality presence that 1770 will not develop. This window of appreciation is directly as a cybernetic synergy too often neglected in our present day consensus and fiction-dulled millieu. Let us appreciate technology and learn.

Flickr Postcard Browser

I like the Flickr Postcard Browser.
http://tinyurl.com/4e99j

Exploring further is on my list of things to do. Try a search for keyword technology. The first page displayed is interesting and varied, but from page two on almost all pages are documenting our ubiquitous personal computer workstations! GOD Bless thimbles! Of course, by the time we migrate into interstellar space we will need be perfectly at ease living inside a computer so I guess this preponderance goes with the territory.