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.

Oh the Irony

Wanna know a secret? I'm going on vacation in 3 days and not only won't I be online every day, I won't even sleep under a roof for most of a week while I hike Pictured Rocks in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. So from the perspective of someone who won't even be indoors, much less blogging, Twitter so intensifies the frequency of feedback as to be comical. Here's my Tweet setup http://twitter.com/VillageIdiocy. Gotta go!

Horseshoes and Hand Grenades

http://windowseat.ca/viscosity/create.php Very fun. Not as many portrait-, and way too many font-related sites, and so many generally that I began to bog down checking them out when half ended in file format incompatability or issues with finding pictures on or saving work to a shared computer. This I like though. Here's the drawing itself http://windowseat.ca/viscosity/drawing.php?id=22329

Storytelling

I could spend hours looking at all these 3rd party apps but the ones I've glommed onto -- Bubblr, Loopy, Flickeur -- are all similar. The thing that interest me is the way that sequenced images demand the construction of some narrative meaning. Technology really has human importance in proportion to its capability to tell stories, and Flickeur especially has potential for a sort of neat absurdist approach.