Saturday, July 21, 2007

8 Little Known Things About Me

I got a tag awhile back so here is the response...

8 Little Known Things About Me:
1. I am deathly afraid of bees.
2. My first and only job has been with BCPL.
3. I am a huge gaming/book/movie geek.
4. My favorite color is blue.
5. Both cars I've had have been Volkswagens.
6. I secretly enjoy reading dumb celebrity gossip.
7. I love thunderstorms
8. Halloween is my favorite holiday.

I'll get around to tagging some blogs later, but in the meantime, it's back to work... and of course to Harry Potter ;)

Week 6, Things 13, 14, & 15

I started off this week as suggested, by exploring del.icio.us. I can't say I was too impressed with the site. I think that it is practical - a good way of sharing links that don't contain misleading information. There is a lot of unreliable and even downright wrong information to be found on the vast WWW, so I think in that respect, del.icio.us is a good tool for those looking for reliability in their web searching.

The blog-linking site Tehnorati confused me at first. I tried searching for Library 2.0 without quotations, and just ending up getting repeat blogs about pocketbikes and how much they were going for. It was a little strange to say the least. Then I put quotes around it: "library 2.0" and ended up getting what I was looking for. There were 3,442 blogs about Library 2.0 already.

Next I read an article entitled "Into a New World of Librarianship," in which the writer discussed the future of a more technologically sound library and in what ways librarians will have to adapt to these updates. He brought up an interesting story in one of the sections: the argument that the principles of Library 2.0 are not new. I must say I agree with him, however, the ways in which we go about becoming better libraries are different. The same principles of being able to attend to the needs of the public, especially being able to inform them, are the same. But I doubt that libraries in the past have always used computers, or programs such as Library 2.0, in order to better their technological knowledge. As I have said, I grew up with computers, so this is not that hard for me, but for someone with limited computer experience, I think that Library 2.0 is useful.

Lastly, I got tagged awhile back so I figured I would respond to that in the next entry.

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Week 5, Things 10, 11, and 12

SO I have just finished with this week's activities. But before I could continue on this priceless journey of learning and frustration, I first had to reset my password because I forgot it. YAY!!! So in the process, I discovered a new word: erstical. Go ahead, look it up, it doesn't exist yet but it will soon because I'm going to give it meaning. So watch out.

I decided to get on Yahoo! and create my own avatar. Since Yahoo! is such a huge media conglomerate, it's truly a surprise that they could not get anyone to better animate these atrocities otherwise known as avatars. My own avatar looked nothing like me, with eyes that took up half her face and tight blue jeans. Speaking of clothes,the start page gave me a choice of a sparkly white halter top or a "Kiss Me, I'm Irish!" shirt. Since I am neither a club-hopping socialite nor Irish, I sadly could not use either option. In the end, avatars can only take you so far. And they really, really don't look like you at all.

Thing 11: LibraryThing. Here's my LibraryThing account: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/librosplox
While I appreciate the fact that LibraryThing let me catalog my favorite books, I suspect some subliminal messaging/sneaky advertising on the part of Amazon.com, whose name popped up quite frequently while I was just attempting to share my love of books with the world. I don't want to buy the books, Amazon. I work in a library, okay? Anyway, LibraryThing definitely interested me mainly because it was cool to see how many people like the same books that I like (unexpectedly, a book I thought only I liked actually happened to be known by more than 100 people).

Things 12: Rollyo. SO USELESS!! The internet and all its inventions are making people lazier and lazier. Instead of actually going on a search through the internet for what you want, you can now have it delivered right to you. I am not a big fan of this technique. I prefer to go looking for my own sources, mainly because I tend to find other interesting facts along the way. I figure, there is no harm in searching each site individually. The only thing stopping someone is laziness. Not to mention the fact that if you are trying to save time looking through all those search engines, you should START THE PROJECT EARLIER, PROCRASTINATOR! (And trust me, as a student, I know everything about procrastinating and marathon paper writing.) Also, something like this has definitely been invented before, with a much more amusing name: check out www.dogpile.com

I can't get over that name! HEEHEE.

That's all for this week's adventure into cyberspace. PEACE OUTTT.