CML wiki

Hmm. I added my blog to favorite blogs, but it doesn't show up in the list. But if I click on favorite blogs it goes there. So go figure. I guess it worked, but I'm not sure. Maybe it would all make more sense if I did it at one sitting instead of in 5 minute spurts here and there throughout the day! The other things i added appear as they should. I also snatched a lock from somebody who hadn't used it in over 5 minutes. That was interesting - I had been wondering what would happen if more than 1 person tried to modify the wiki at once.

Wikis

I like the sharing concept. It would be wonderful for working on drafts of a joint paper, for example, instead of emailing the thing 'round and 'round. I spent some time on the library wikis, and especially liked the SJCPL subject page. I don't exactly know what makes it a wiki - can librarians just change/add stuff to the page? Having information/signups, etc. be easily modifiable would be a definite plus.

Library 2.0

This marks the generational divide between the young folk leading a 'connected' life, and those who are being left behind. Over time, most people will crawl into the boat, but for a while lots of people will sink. I appreciated Rick Anderson's article on 'icebergs'. We have been struggling with this for quite a while - what resources can we give up on and find online, and what do we need in print anyway - either because that's the format customers want, or to have available when all the computers are full (not uncommon). We are also trying to find the happy medium between leaving customers completely on their own online, and being able to offer guidance but not actually do all their work for them. But then, this has always been a point of tension; simply a new format.

Del.icio.us

Today I am happy! This is useful! This makes sense! I want this! I created an account and imported my bookmarks. Now to make time to organize them... Just think of all the times someone emails around a wondrous site they've discovered about some topic. You bookmark it, then can never find it again on a staff wan. Since these can be gotten to from anywhere, and others can find them...WOW. Happy, happy.
I also have a tendency to get interested in a topic, and the research it to death. Right now I have my regular bookmarks organized into folders, but they can each only go into one folder. This is much better! Happy!

Twitter

This application gives me the creeps, plain and simple. I already feel exposed enough with the blog, but why in hell would I want everyone to know what I'm doing every second!!!! I can see it for sudden events notification (ie, rally in the park in 1 hr), or spur of the moment get-togethers. IF you're in the habit of checking your iphone every 2 minutes for updates. If it's not coming on your phone or portable device, it would't be of much use - and some of us get charged for every text message. Sigh. I feel SO 'last-century'!
Then there is the simple issue of not understanding how to 'follow' and do anything with this, despite having read all the tutorials. Apparently nobody I know is on Twitter. Help!! What am I missing???
Oh, my twitter URL: http://twitter.com/SPIRALDANCER

LibraryThing

Ah, an other application I will enjoy exploring further someday when I have more time. I was recently invited to join GoodReads & it will be interesting to compare the 2. Lacking time to join a book group, this could be a good way to explore and discuss good reading. http://www.librarything.com/catalog/fjain

Cool images

OK, kinda cool. Voici my perfect phone, curtesy of http://www.phonerator.com/ .

I also made a cute ALA mini-poster:

http://www.ala.org/ala/productsandpublications/READ_Mini_Posters.cfm

I can actually have a lot of fun with this one!!

Thing #9

Finding feeds turned out to be fairly straightforward. I have to confess to a certain lack of interest, but perhaps I just haven't found the blog of my dreams yet. Oh, if I only had more time... I liked the search tools like Topix that gave a variety of choices. Just putting in a word may work for the passionnate, but left me wondering what to ask for. I have some sites in my email that send regular updates - I'll try to take a closer look at them and see if they have RSS streams. That would be really helpful, I must admit!

More Time

Sheese. This is fun, but am definitely not going to spend my life cruising. As I mentioned in my last post, this is complicating my life, rather than streamlining it. It is clear that feeds are in important way for groups to send out current information & keep people hooked. Fabulous! But I can't help this nagging feeling that I've got plenty of other things to do. So I continue to hope that by the end of these 23 exercises I will finally understand how to organize all this stuff into a workable 'community'.

Time is of the Essence

This is getting more complicated, and it's harder & harder to find time to squeeze it all in. The RSS feed thing is amazing - but it still takes time to find and read them. My Bloglines site: http://www.bloglines.com/public/florencejain. What I'm finding is that we are creating more and more locations to find information that we are in theory consolidating. Now I have a Facebook page, a blog, a bloglines account, a Flickr account, and soon a Twitter account. How do we tie all this together? I need a personal megasite!!!