this is the end,......

Exercise # 15 and 16. Well, it is 4:40 on March 28. I am on vacation tomorrow and still have a lot of things I wanted to get done today. So this may be my last blog about these exercises (I just saw the email with the extension, maybe this is my next to the last?!) Anyway I read through some of the Perspectives on Web 2.0 in exercise 15 and began reading about the Wikis in exercise 16. Actually, they are beginning to blend together. (I was trying to read through them at the service desk and it turned out to be a more busy hour than I expected, so I kept getting interrupted.) I recall that one of the wikis took me to a discussion of "beta" programs which was informative, some of my more tech savvy co-workers will often discuss something being in a beta state, and now I have more specific info. about what that actually means.

I want to read up more about the Wikis and how they are put together. We are beginning to discuss having one for departmental information so that seems more pertinent to my work assignment at this time. One of the articles about Wikis did mention that some people have concerns about quality control. It said that if you are a person to whom control is important then a Wiki may not be for you. That statement puzzled me, I assume there must be Wikis that still have some sort of control...otherwise for certain purposes they may be useless. For instance, if we are going to have a Wiki for library information that is given out to our patrons there has to be some entity that ensures the information is correct. For example, if somebody decides to change a telephone number, or a contact person, but their info. is incorrect...where does that leave us? So I will have to delve into this further and find out what type of Wiki would work best for our dept.

So I have rushed through this post, which I thought would be my last one. It may not make much sense. But maybe I can look it over on Monday and edit. Bye for now...