Posts Tagged Debbie Faires

Wiki, wiki, wiki! (Part 1)

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For the past two days I continued working on wikis, this time not only editing a wiki, but actually creating a wiki of my own. The next set of activities for our LIBR 246 class is to: install the open source application, MediaWiki, on the SJSU Senna server, create a wiki on [...]

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Editing wikis

This week, our LIBR 246 class is working on wikis. Two of the week’s actvities are editing the LIBR 246 class wiki and editing a public wiki. Aside from occasionally consulting Wikipedia as a source of preliminary information for a research paper, or to read up summaries of TV series or book series I am [...]

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A really long post about RSS (Part 1)

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RSS is another example of how Web 2.0 technologies are changing how we gather and share information. Farkas in her book, Social software in libraries, provided a brief background of what RSS is all about. She traced its origin from Netscape’s tool of gathering content in 1999 and informs us that the [...]

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