Sunday, July 26, 2009

library thing


I like it. Although I'm not quite a complete true believer. I like the idea if I wanted to talk or share with like minded readers that we could connect based on like reading interests. If my home library ever gets a reading series done and part of me says could this be viable during the summer or some time period on campus that this site would be a good way to gather programming ideas in terms of books, authors, and may be the mind set of readers. Right now I feel swamped and I may come back and truly use this site or I may say I have too much on my plate. I do have an informal Alice in Wonderland book collection. I like getting different illustrated versions. So finding that other illustration groupies exist would be nice. It was very easy to "catalog" and if organizing my personal collection got to be important this would be a great way.

Friday, July 24, 2009

digg

I like digg it. Even though I was prepared to think more social networking. I discovered an article on a librarians group to provide services for prisoners. Maybe it struck a nerve but I thought this is the kind of information that needs to make itsway up the scale of human currency. This SLIS group of students has an Amazon link, a flickr presence. Yes, all in the joint aren't good people but they are humans and so I said digg can make what could be the obscure not languish in obscurity. We all see needs that we think if people only knew they would respond, but if they don't know the need is just out there. Digg can at its best provide a way of saying people and ideas worth pursuing don't have to languish. I'm digging it indeed.

Yea for delicious


I love this. I am rapidly organizing for bookmarks and deleting those that I hardly care anything

about. This organizing tool was so simple; the only bad thing is I have so many bookmarks and

I feel like I must go through all of them to feel like this is semi-done deal. This tool certainly

makes finding stuff in the future so much easier. I am so delighted I had to add a picture to express the joy I feel. :)

tagging

Mixed comments. I provide on flickr and on any blog postings I submit a tag; unless you speak Andrea talk some of my taggisms may not be easily retrievable. For example, I have ambivalence towards the usefulness or social good of some of the techno toys that we are using. I am tagging these observations Luddite. The word in and of itself is not unusual but what if you did NOT think along those lines. My words of brilliance via the blog might not be findable. In short I wonder if we can get to be too eccentric where we all have our own terms but not a common language to find stuff. I guess I'd like someone to occasionally go through tags and maybe do a bit of separating of the wheat from the chaff.

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

twitterings

Here's my inner Luddite. I got behind my 23 things since my home computer is on the blitz and I don't always have time at work. I signed into twitter, tried to find people I wanted to find, defriended a few people who I mistakenly thought I knew. I am now following the Onion, newspaper satire; Women's Wear Daily and one other thing. Oh I forgot I follow Rachel Maddow. I need to figure out why I would want to follow these people or things. Who has time? On a bad day of the week I am not doing anything fascinating so why in the heck would anyone care ditto on my following anyone or anything. I'm not sure if I don't get it or if I am just a sour state employee.