Library Thing

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Neat. A tool that I think I could use to examine subject more deeply. Certainly i won't be cataloging my books to share but my purpose would be to use others motivation and vanity to learn from them. Selfish I guess. Che lastima.

Also a neat tool to share with bibliophiles I know who might really embrace their inner cataloger. Do similar sites exist for music? Must be. Those audiophiles are more into their music then even book people are into their print.

Delicious

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Not so ready but happy to know about it. Part of the challenge is that I consider myself a social person and yet can't imagine how this social networking fits in with my life. Perhaps it is a trust thing...and I'm sure it's a seat time thing. Just not looking for ways to spend more computer time.

When I have a project and a team we could use this site as a communal posting board. But maybe we'd just start a wiki or have a single blog with all-team access.

MyDeepSpace

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It sure seems that all webmasters are interested in being the portal to the web and the myspace people have succeeded. Why not devote Library resources to participating in that environment? With appropriate expectations of who can be reached and what can be accomplished. As has been acknowledged, users taste will change, library "friends" will become uncool, and the use of a library myspace page may wane eventually, I'm guessing. If I understood it correctly, the idea of signing in as an individual rather than an institution, is weird, duplicitous, dishonest. Why should a library be party to that?

On the upside, creating an environment that authors - both professional and amateurs - can link to and share text and comments is neat. The video and audio is good too. Libraries can do more to hype the non print. And, for example, the KCLS links to audio and video all seem clunky to me.

RSS

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More information. I remain not yet excited; too soon for me to revel in the opportunity to spend more time on the computer investigating things more deeply. In time perhaps...Partly, as I understand it, I need to now log in to a new bloglines account to access my chosen new lines of communiquees... that is a turn off.

Part of why and how I use the web involves serendipity and rss takes that away. For intentional information needs though, I see a value. For now, for others...

Flickr mashups

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Technology certainly allows some neat tricks. I tried the sudoku flickr and the spelling flickr and made some trading cards using images and remain unimpressed with the purpose but wowed by the ease by which tags allow the arrangement of images and information in various ways. Fun.

I assume too that it has all gotten easier and that the common person is getting closer and closer to have the tools needed to manipulate these as they wish.

Flickr yo!

At Valley View library a young patron asked to print out some color prints from Photobucket.com ''Sureno" was the topic which I compared to Flickr for fun.http://flickr.com/photos/tags/sureno/
Wikipedia was my other source to get some background on this LA, south of the border, apparently in S. King Co. phenom.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sureno

Now I am better aquainted with Mexican Gangs, their motifs, graphics and expression. For this subject Photobucket was a better site since it seems not just photos but pictures are posted too. Better perhaps for graffiti stuff. Maybe you could compare www.Photobucket.com too.

Funny sidebar that graffiti is 'tagged' and now the web uses 'tags' to i.d. things. Art, technology, rebellion, mainstream, disenfranchisement ...can all share the same vocabulary somehow.

So it is just a reminder that we are in age of access and choice and people will use different portals and platforms, sites, blogs and what all for their needs. I feel my head may explode.......and explains why I chose not to open a Flickr account. Not interested yet.