Monday, March 10, 2008

There is no way Fruit-by-the-Foot is three feet long; or, Thing 12

I have a long day ahead of me, I'm quite sick and I have to get up earlish for work tomorrow. So clearly I need to do one of these inane things that probably don't relate to libraries, despite being part of a library continuing education bullcrap website. Today's chosen 2.0 tool? Rollyo! [cue parade, or at least the effing confetti]

Itinerary:
  1. Create an account. Check.
  2. Create a searchroll. Topic? Degrassi: The Next Generation
  3. Blah blah blah--it was easy to make an account. As for being useful in libraries, sure, I can see it. The librarian has to be dedicated enough to search through the sites selected to make sure they aren't too broad. For example, I included the Degrassi Wikipedia page, thinking that it would only use the Degrassi page. Enh! Wrong answer. It uses all of Wikipedia, so if I wanted to search "Jimmy and shot" I would be there for a while. One neat thing about this, however, is you can limit the search by specific webpages in the collective group picked out by the Rollyo account holder.
Library Usability Scale: I'd give this a 5 out of 5, pending on the searchroll creator.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

As a veteran of a system-wide 23 Things campaign myself? I applaud your use of the word "bullcrap".

I didn't think much of Rollyo myself.