Thursday, August 23, 2007
Sign-ups
I'm finding the constant creating of accounts and sign-ups very tiring and am feeling discouraged at this point as a result. Account creation overload is a problem.
Saturday, August 18, 2007
Week 6
Added Del.icio.us to my computer.
Explored Technorati. The thing that struck me when I looked at the most popular blogs was the use of the term "favorited." This colored my opinion of the entire site.
Looked at the Learning 2.0 blog entries and found lots.
Read :
Library 2.0 Theory: Web 2.0 and Its Implications for Libraries. by Maness
The paper defines the terms in the title and explores what they mean for libraries. It was obvious that the author's conclusions were based on academic library experience. While some of his conclusions may also be applied to public libraries I felt they were too narrow to be of interest to me.
Into a New World of Librarianship by Stephens.
This article was much more interesting to me. His principles can be used by public librarians. I'd love to see a BCPL discussion at some level about user content development.
Explored Technorati. The thing that struck me when I looked at the most popular blogs was the use of the term "favorited." This colored my opinion of the entire site.
Looked at the Learning 2.0 blog entries and found lots.
Read :
Library 2.0 Theory: Web 2.0 and Its Implications for Libraries. by Maness
The paper defines the terms in the title and explores what they mean for libraries. It was obvious that the author's conclusions were based on academic library experience. While some of his conclusions may also be applied to public libraries I felt they were too narrow to be of interest to me.
Into a New World of Librarianship by Stephens.
This article was much more interesting to me. His principles can be used by public librarians. I'd love to see a BCPL discussion at some level about user content development.
Monday, August 13, 2007
catching up
Tried MERLIN again this morning. Still down if I'm trying the right site.
Checked library-related blogs. Basically thousands of them. Those I looked at were a waste of time. Either not updated for several years or nonense, i.e. Barbarian Librarian.
Finished assignments for Week5 and have begun Week 6. I've done the Del.icio.us part and the icon sits on my tool bar. So far I have not found anything I'd want to tag.
Checked library-related blogs. Basically thousands of them. Those I looked at were a waste of time. Either not updated for several years or nonense, i.e. Barbarian Librarian.
Finished assignments for Week5 and have begun Week 6. I've done the Del.icio.us part and the icon sits on my tool bar. So far I have not found anything I'd want to tag.
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Still working
Today's activities:
-Tried to access MERLIN but it's down
-Looked at several image generators: LogoMaker,CoolText, Logoease.
-Signed on to Library Thing. this might be something I'll use.
-Set up a Parkinson's Disease search engine with Rollyo
-Tried to access MERLIN but it's down
-Looked at several image generators: LogoMaker,CoolText, Logoease.
-Signed on to Library Thing. this might be something I'll use.
-Set up a Parkinson's Disease search engine with Rollyo
RSS
My RSS feed is set up. I'm subscribed to BBC-World News and Google News bundle. The news is always on my desktop so that means I'm spending even more time looking at the computer. This is becoming a big problem since I'm already an e-mail addict! Even though I am retired I do need to get on with other things. Ah, the curse of technolgy.
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