Philosophomoron

In 5 years, will blogs be like Crystal Pepsi?

10 random things bonus

1 I was allergic to the cold (under 40 degrees) for a week in 8th grade and broke out in hives until the dermatologist cleared it up.
2 My middle name is Francis.
3 I was in a Kiss cover band in 4th grade called the Cockroach band.
4 I've eaten a yogurt smoothie every day for breakfast for years.
5 I read magazines back to front frequently.
6 I was a National Merit Scholar.
7 That person in camouflage rollerblading up and down High Street is me.
8 I'd like to try acting soon.
9 I grew up in Clintonville and live near Hilltonia Park.
10 I never drink the remaining milk from a bowl of cereal. That would be barbaric -- the milk is like secondhand milk now. But I will just pour in more cereal.

Good day to you

My brain is puffy with Learnin'!

Its like graduation for the Things from L&P University.
Voted...

Most likely to succeed
Twitter
Most likely to never get logged into again
Tie; Newslinks, LibraryThing
Most likely to waste my time
Youtube (in a fun way)
Most likely to succeed (late bloomer)
Tie; delicious, Netvibes
Most productive
wikis

I'm not done with the 23 things, we've only just been introduced. I was suprised that as a part timer I could keep pace, but y'know its a valid distraction for someone who closes alot. Now I get to fine tune and help other people along with the Things. Ciao.

MOLDI

I tried to download a documentary about caves, Journey into Amazing Caves, because I am a caver. Problems popped up with the Digital Rights Management, and it ground to a halt, but I can see students using it to read a book for class that they don't want to buy and is unavailable at the library. The book download is going better. Colors That Sell looks like fun. Adios amigos. No como la nieve amarilla.

Working Title

Enjoy

Big fan of Triumph's work.

DUNKDUNK

YOUTUBE

Youtube good...Schadenfreude good...make Hulk laugh

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.