I PROMISE, THIS IS THE LAST ONE TODAY

Its addictive

BAM!

Take 3...

Trying to embed rather than link...thinking aloud...How's that?

Close enough

Let's try this. Let's just link the video..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYvh1csC3jg. There! Very entertaining!

Youtube is alot of fun. In fact, its so fun, I've assembled a short list of favorites from memory to link, and I just trumped up this blog to have a place to link 'em to. I think I registered last year, but I haven't heard back about my "I forgot my usrename" request. Look at the 'MEOWARCHY' series of videos for now.

Eh

The Power Tools 'thing' had some fun points. I like Tech Crunch alot, and Boing Boing and MAKE are kinda neat, and WorldCat is a valuable customer service tool. Eventually, I'll take the useful elements and patch them into my delicious tags and Netvibes start page and whatnot. Then I never need to navigate to the Power Tools page. Ha. Ha ha. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha ha. Ha ha ha ha ha. (evil laughter continues, and so forth)

Dashboard 2.0

I opted to sign up for a start page that got 1st in category called Netvibes.com. i can use it to have onscreen all the RSS feeds, websites, weather and news info, to do lists, calendars and just about anything I might need all tiled out and accessible, which is great. The next thing will be to set up the layout, and then, since I ran through some of the "things" quickly in the interest of checking it off the list, I can go back and look around some more. Its like having all your web 2.0 favorites on a dashboard.

Sold!

This Google docs "thing" is really impressive. I'd like to use it to put together an investment club. Who's interested? "We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful." - Warren Buffet.

BANG!

I've got 3 hours straight on the floor, and I've got Thing 16 under my belt, so the rest is gravy. It took me most of an hour and a half, but once you find the sandbox (hint: search for 'sandbox, click 'read the full post') it went smoothly. The demo http://pbwiki.com/content/viewdemo is as good (almost) as the CommonCraft ones. I've already weighed in on the excellence of wikis' reduction of redundancy, and it was refreshing to find it all manageably intuitive in real life.

Wikithing

A one-time supervisor tried to rope librarians into using wikis a year and a half ago, and it was about as popular as leprosy. But you watch the Common Craft video (great as usual) and you can't deny how useful it is. Its exciting and I'll definitely explore more fully when time allows. I wasn't sold on the specific wikis linked -- a couple were thin on content.

Web 2.0

Totally agree with Rick Anderson particularly about the importance of user education. The public training can't expand fast enough in this environment. To Michael Stevens idea that "new technologies are not implemented for the sake of coolness and status" and that we're not in the techno-worship business I would add that a little carrot of coolness and status has to be a recognized part of the marketing of libraries. The coolness/status experience sought by many of the Web users at my location, particularly in the microcosm of social networking, is what keeps the butts in the seats.

Tagging -- what's not to like?

The otter podcast pales in comparison to the Customcraft thing. I'll need another hour or two to totally get it, but I like what I've seen of del.icio.us so far. Its something library patrons could use on the shared public PCs but probably don't know about.

Extra pistachio please!

Library Thing is one of my favorite Things so far. I loves me some books! I hope they figure out how to pick, say, 4 books on my list and see who else may have the same 4 books (among others) in their collection. I just finished reading a book by Richard Florida that is a response to The World Is Flat by Thomas Friedman, and asserts that place is increasingly important in the creative class. T.F. argued that place is passe in the 21st century.

No Comment

The http://www.librarian.net/ site left me flat. I'd have to be in a really excited state to glom onto the contents -- if I'm going to talk about the profession, I'd much prefer conversation.

Bloglines

This post deals with Thing 8, only 3 weeks after the fact. The CommonCraft video is a major help, but this site never floated my boat particularly. I'm just not online enough to make this or the suggested sites pay off from an time-efficiency standpoint, and it doesn't have an inherent "neat" thing for me.

Whoops-a-daisy

I goofed and pasted all sorts of off-task URLs in my L&P deal, so I'm retroactively blogging about the time I began my "L&P journey". I didn't entertain the idea that I'd win anything, but it seemed I'd have alot of company on what has become grueling from time to time. Read "The Long Walk" by Stephen King.