Thing 3 - Clever Title To Come Later

So I signed up with Bloglines, did my RSS feeds. For ages, I've been meaning to work on this, and learn the great wide world of RSS. But to be completely honest, I'm not really seeing the usefulness of this for my everyday life. I have about six or eight blogs and websites that I check every so often, when I feel like killing time online, and it isn't a great hardship for me to actually visit the sites. That said, Bloglines was very easy to sign up and use. I just don't think it's something that I would be using on a regular basis. I feel like I should probably pretend that I spend so much time online catching up on Web 2.0 stuff that I really need Bloglines or Google Reader to keep up to date, but I just don't. By the way, is this knitted Thing (from the Fantastic Four) the cutest thing you've ever seen? Or is it just me? Check out more at http://www.craftjuice.com.

Thing 2 - It's Your Thing (do what you wanna do)

So I was momentarily stymied by Thing 2, as the technology at my small library was not up to the challenge of playing a video. No sound on my desk (public) computer, and not adequate Flash on the backroom computer. But luckily, my home laptop came to the rescue and the video can consider itself watched.

That said, I find it enormously hard to give videos (and even long essays) on the web careful attention. I think having 'grown up' using the web as carefully concealed and sporadic escape from a dull job (not my current job, of course!), my attention online is pretty fragmented. The video was interesting, though, and he makes an excellent point about librarians keeping up with technology. Also, I can't believe that guy used to smoke three packs a day. Dang. That's a lot of smoking.

As for the blog and article discussions (and if anyone's really read this far, I give them mad props), I found the discussion of Library 2.0 interesting. I love the ideas of how it can enhance the experience of readers and readers advisory, and connect readers together. I think the Ann Arbor District Library website is a thing of infinite beauty. I also like the increased options for ways of providing reference service, such as IM/Virtual Reference. However, it's also important to remember what the percentage is of people who use libraries in traditional ways--let's not assume our entire population is flooding in to send podcasts from our libraries. We still have a class on "mastering the mouse" after all, and it's quite well-attended. I guess most of all, this comment on the blyberg blog post really hit home for me: "unacceptable Galapagos?civilizes Ritchie highlands!…". That's really something to think about.

Thing 1 - Part Three (bordering on obsessive)

Does Thing 1, Thing 2 etc. make anyone else think of these guys?

Thing 1 - Part Two

The avatar is up! I am fully represented in the online world. I hope my avatar doesn't run off and make trouble with other 23 blogs and get in brawls with other avatars. Clearly, there could be some trouble what with the snowballs and all.

Thing 1 - It's a BLOG!

I have followed directions and have set up said blog for the 23 Things on a Stick program. Sadly, Yahoo Avatars is down right now, but I'm hoping to get the avatar up and running soon. I set up a couple of trial blogs on Wordpress, but got bogged down in the appearance and decided to go back to Blogger, which I've had several blogs on in the past including The Bitter Spinster Librarian. And that's it!