Week 6 Googling

I use Google a lot and have used docs and the spreadsheet program so this week has been a bit easier (I am getting an early start cause of Easter). However, there is a lot more available then I realised.
I added the Google Map Street View of my local cafe to my Blog by creating a Zoho doc and pasting the pic & Web link in (the web Link doesn't seem to be live).
I Searched with Google books and found an obscure Australian publication (it didn't have the cover which is on my Library Thing account).
So now for some study of all the different aspects I haven't looked at yet.
An issues I find challenging is there is just too much of this stuff and its hard to find until you know of it. But even then as there is more and more it gets too much to keep linked and sorted (internally); so maybe there is a role for librarians to have these maps and effective paths mapped out for people (along the lines of this course!).
Microsoft labs is working on a product called Silverlight that is intended to enable a more knowledge oriented accessing of information and I assume this will eventually extend to applications. (The photosynth and deepzoom sites I have on my Blog are subsets of this work. Check it out http://silverlight.net/world/ ). This would mean all the books papers and quotes etc referred to in a text would be visually linked with cross reference, relationship and relativity connections. This would facilitate an exploration of the details behind many of the things we read.
I think we are in for some interesting times.