Not as Delicious as I had hoped....but nice Thingy at the end!

My delicious link is the first thing to go into this blog so I can at least say I have achieved that today after spending the best part of half an hour trying to login to all the websites I am supposed to be connected to. delicious.com/firstfinn. Feeling a sense of information overload with it all! If it weren't for all my new email accounts, blogs, usernames and passwords, I might actually learn something! at the moment it's all looking a bit 'Cloudy'!
The AskNow use of delicious for referencing seems a very useful tool, although there is a challenge in reviewing sites and avoiding information overload.
I can see why Library Thing has been a hit with other Web 2.0 trainees! Now there's an app that makes sense. I can see the benefit of this - even better than the Wiki for online book clubs (although one will never be without face-to-face interaction I reckon). I love how easy it is to use and will settle in when I have more time to add my personal library at leisure and see how many other people share my often diabolical taste in books. Please note added book is purely for show at the moment - to try and prove that I am a dedicated mother as well as book lover!!

Wikis

I can see the benefit of wikis for sharing information but I would have serious concerns about the accuracy and reliability of the content when poeple have free rein to add and edit. My son was doing a project recently on natural disasters and when I came to look over it with him it turned out that most of his information had come from wiki sites. While none of it was earth-shatteringly important stuff I am sure there was little cause for concern but his total belief in Wikipedia as 'gospel' wrorried me a bit.
I am highly suspicious since the day my brother sent me a Widipedia link about our tiny village in Ireland. Clearly he or some of his cronies had edited it to include the 'fact' that Taughmaconnell was the birthplace of 'the famous porn star Joe Bloggs' (for Joe Bloggs read the name of one of his other mates! Naughty stuff! Have not checked in on it lately but if Wikipedia's claim to be hot on information accuracy is true I would hope it is well gone by now!
In the library one would like to think we could trust a wiki to supplement to team meetings for sharing knowledge and information. We are of course all so much more mature than my baby brother - wouldn't you agree Teena, Troy, Beth..........????