I took a look at the 23 Things Blog today and saw it was about Delicious. I first opened an account on Delicious in May of 2006 at the behest of one of my professors and as part of a library technology class. As I was looking through my old bookmarks I found a rare gem of a bookmark that I had forgotten about.
It is a short movie made by my friends in a Library Marketing class we had taken in the Spring of 2006. It seems like something that could have been entered in this system's Library Youtube Contest. I am happy that it has had over 60,000 views on Youtube. It is funny and musical. Check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItCIHAksjf4
Okay, back to Delicious. Well, as I said before I have some experience with it in graduate school. I think our assignment back then was create 50 bookmarks and tag them. We needed to bookmark sites about certain technology related topics. During the course of the class we learned about some of the topics like folksonomies and blogging but I never really did learn what some of the topics we where supposed to bookmark where. These include Ajax, Ning, and Digg. (These are topics I would like to explore further I think.)
I want to say that I think Delicious has become more useful in the last 2 years. It has more features than it did the last time I used it. Today I learned how to send another user a bookmark. I also learned how a little bit about how firefox and Delicious work together. I also learned that Delicious lost its periods (which I think is an improvement).
Here is my Delicious site: http://delicious.com/Kgaffron
I am Kgaffron if you would care to network with me.
The strength for me in Delicious is that it is an online place to keep your bookmarks. The social aspect of it is nice. I have a lot of bookmarks and tags about web design and library reference because the summer I created my account I was taking a class in library reference and library technology. When I was in school it was useful because I could look at my classmates' boookmarks and I am sure in this 23 Things learning process I could learn from other people interested in library 2.0 and the 23 Things.
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
A Thing about Library Thing
I created a LibraryThing account today. Here is my link:
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/Kgaffron
Here are the positives that I see: I liked the way that a user could find book related events or join in on a discussion about books and authors. I like the way it has a visually pleasing interface. But I always seem to be using some sort of similar technology that is not the one we are assigned in all of these 23 Things assignments.
Currently, I used Goodreads outside of work. Here is my Goodreads link: http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1394717
It is kind of the same thing as LibraryThing. It is a social networking site for book lovers that allows users a place to keep track of their books and create reviews and plot summaries.
I joined Goodreads in August 2008. I have 10 friends on Goodreads. So far I haven’t really done all that much with it yet. But I know that I need to change my account settings because anytime any one of my friends adds a book or writes a review, I get an e-mail. This is growing annoying. I Truthfully I don’t really use it for book recommendations or to keep track of what books I have read. I can mostly keep track of the books I have read in my head and I usually have a pretty good idea about what I want to read. But it is kind of entertaining, we will see if I keep using it.
But I know people who work in this library who use it to keep track of the books they have read. One of my co-workers even uses it as a reader's advisory tool. For her, it helps her to jog her memory about certain titles. I think that you can even integrate your Goodreads profile into your facebook profile.
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/Kgaffron
Here are the positives that I see: I liked the way that a user could find book related events or join in on a discussion about books and authors. I like the way it has a visually pleasing interface. But I always seem to be using some sort of similar technology that is not the one we are assigned in all of these 23 Things assignments.
Currently, I used Goodreads outside of work. Here is my Goodreads link: http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1394717
It is kind of the same thing as LibraryThing. It is a social networking site for book lovers that allows users a place to keep track of their books and create reviews and plot summaries.
I joined Goodreads in August 2008. I have 10 friends on Goodreads. So far I haven’t really done all that much with it yet. But I know that I need to change my account settings because anytime any one of my friends adds a book or writes a review, I get an e-mail. This is growing annoying. I Truthfully I don’t really use it for book recommendations or to keep track of what books I have read. I can mostly keep track of the books I have read in my head and I usually have a pretty good idea about what I want to read. But it is kind of entertaining, we will see if I keep using it.
But I know people who work in this library who use it to keep track of the books they have read. One of my co-workers even uses it as a reader's advisory tool. For her, it helps her to jog her memory about certain titles. I think that you can even integrate your Goodreads profile into your facebook profile.
Friday, November 14, 2008
#10 Playing around with Image Generators
States I Have Been To
http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/map.php
Blue= States I have visited
Green= States I have never Visted
This is a mao I made using a mashup toy made by Big Huge Labs. They have some cool toys. Library staff could use this toy to make a youth program about travel or geography.
http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/map.php
Blue= States I have visited
Green= States I have never Visted
This is a mao I made using a mashup toy made by Big Huge Labs. They have some cool toys. Library staff could use this toy to make a youth program about travel or geography.
#9 Finding Feeds
Now that I have started using my Googlereader account again I decided to search for some feeds to add to my account.
I tried Topix.net first. I like it. I like all the topics you could read about. But it seems more like a collection of feeds to scan then a place to find feeds to subscribe to. I am interested in finding out information about last night’s episode of Survivor. I found lots of fun info to read but so far nothing to subscribe to. (BTW: I am happy that Charlie went home last night.)
Then I used bloglines search tool. Again I like it because you can reach many entries about the same topic. I think that is what I like most about these tools so far; they allow you to read many blogs about the same idea (in this case last night’s episode of Survivor).
Then I tried out Technorati. The same thing. I liked it for searching all the feeds on a particular topic.
I am still not completely convinced that I will continue reading my google reader account. I am still very pro I-Google. What I like about is that you can interigrate feeds with other things you are looking in. It is a homepage. I like my feeds to be ephemeral. I want them to go away on their own after a few days if I don’t read them. I don’t want to have them pile up if I decide I don’t want to pay attention to them for a while. I want them to be like the headlines on a newspaper, here today gone tomorrow.
I tried Topix.net first. I like it. I like all the topics you could read about. But it seems more like a collection of feeds to scan then a place to find feeds to subscribe to. I am interested in finding out information about last night’s episode of Survivor. I found lots of fun info to read but so far nothing to subscribe to. (BTW: I am happy that Charlie went home last night.)
Then I used bloglines search tool. Again I like it because you can reach many entries about the same topic. I think that is what I like most about these tools so far; they allow you to read many blogs about the same idea (in this case last night’s episode of Survivor).
Then I tried out Technorati. The same thing. I liked it for searching all the feeds on a particular topic.
I am still not completely convinced that I will continue reading my google reader account. I am still very pro I-Google. What I like about is that you can interigrate feeds with other things you are looking in. It is a homepage. I like my feeds to be ephemeral. I want them to go away on their own after a few days if I don’t read them. I don’t want to have them pile up if I decide I don’t want to pay attention to them for a while. I want them to be like the headlines on a newspaper, here today gone tomorrow.
Friday, November 7, 2008
Bloglines and Google Reader My Thoughts
Here is some disclosure: I did not create a bloglines account and I am going to submit this as my post on RSS feeds. In my defense I currently have a Google Reader account so I have opted not to create a bloglines account. I don't think I could keep up with two different accounts.
Here is my opinion: RSS feeds are kind of cool. As an idea RSS readers seem like a good idea. But my thoughts run deeper than that.
Here is my story: I first set up this account 2 years ago when I was taking a Library Technology class in library school. As part of the class we were supposed to add a certain number of blogs of different types to our account. After the class was over I did not continue checking my account. About once every six months I think to myself, I really should check on those and then I get overwelmed when I open my account.
I am trying not to be a neigh-sayer about blogfeeds because I know many people enjoy reading their blog feeds. For this exercise I added a few of the 23 Things participants blogs, the 23 things blog, as well as Jeff Probst's survivor blog (if you are a Survivor fan this is a an awesomely funny blog).
The problem is that there is just too much information available in the world. Truthfully, sometimes I do not read the e-mail in my personal e-mail account. I read e-mails from friends and individuals but mostly I just slightly browse e-mails from companies even Meet-Ups (http://www.meetup.com/). I guess what I am saying is that I can't imaging myself reading 10 feeds especially 10 feeds that I mostly don't get to pick on my own. I honestly think that the exercise should have allowed for more freedom of choice especially since we are trying to have fun while learning.
Do you know what I like more than blogreaders? I like iGoogle. Give it a try. You can customize a front page so when you open up Google you can see everything you need. You can even include blog feeds. I have the CCLS 23 Things blog feeds added to my iGoogle page.
Here is my opinion: RSS feeds are kind of cool. As an idea RSS readers seem like a good idea. But my thoughts run deeper than that.
Here is my story: I first set up this account 2 years ago when I was taking a Library Technology class in library school. As part of the class we were supposed to add a certain number of blogs of different types to our account. After the class was over I did not continue checking my account. About once every six months I think to myself, I really should check on those and then I get overwelmed when I open my account.
I am trying not to be a neigh-sayer about blogfeeds because I know many people enjoy reading their blog feeds. For this exercise I added a few of the 23 Things participants blogs, the 23 things blog, as well as Jeff Probst's survivor blog (if you are a Survivor fan this is a an awesomely funny blog).
The problem is that there is just too much information available in the world. Truthfully, sometimes I do not read the e-mail in my personal e-mail account. I read e-mails from friends and individuals but mostly I just slightly browse e-mails from companies even Meet-Ups (http://www.meetup.com/). I guess what I am saying is that I can't imaging myself reading 10 feeds especially 10 feeds that I mostly don't get to pick on my own. I honestly think that the exercise should have allowed for more freedom of choice especially since we are trying to have fun while learning.
Do you know what I like more than blogreaders? I like iGoogle. Give it a try. You can customize a front page so when you open up Google you can see everything you need. You can even include blog feeds. I have the CCLS 23 Things blog feeds added to my iGoogle page.
Facebook and Myspace also keeping your professional life professional
Today I would like to blog about MySpace and Facebook. I am going to be honest right now: I am not completely thrilled that recently so many of my coworkers have begun to embrace these technologies. I have been on them both since 2005. To me it is my online community of friends. This is not to say my coworkers are not my friends but they are a different kind of friend. I don’t think I am wrong in feeling that I would like to keep my professional life professional and personal life personal.
On my Facebook friends can post pictures or make jokes. Some of the fun I have with my friends outside of work is not what I would like to share with people who are my supervisors or my colleagues. I think that is okay. This being said I think that I would really have to consider it if and when my coworkers “friend” me. I am sure they feel the same way as well. Okay I have said my piece for now.
On my Facebook friends can post pictures or make jokes. Some of the fun I have with my friends outside of work is not what I would like to share with people who are my supervisors or my colleagues. I think that is okay. This being said I think that I would really have to consider it if and when my coworkers “friend” me. I am sure they feel the same way as well. Okay I have said my piece for now.
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