WEEk 8 Again

OK, I finally get it. This site(delicious) was not easy to access or manoeuver.( I always spell this word wrong and lazy me - I'm not getting up - a bad librarian) 

 I had trouble with an initial password and it took days for them to get back to me. In their instructions they said "change your temporary password right away" - and I spend AGES trying to see where to do that. Probably me being dim but surely there are many dim newbies out there. Why frustrate us? 

Sort of a boring page. I don't like overkill but this is pretty institutional looking. Also, the presentation is silly. Why isn't "add this bookmark" not the biggest button in sight?

Anyway........I finally get it- took me a while to grok the social networking aspect- and it seems like a very cool site. I have already spent way too much time exploring the first few posters who matched my url links. So.....I'm all set up and will start to use in earnest when I get the rest of the 23 things under my belt!

WEEK 8

Well....waiting to hear from Del.ici.iuos or however you spell it on why my sign in failed. They will be e-mailing the answer to my other computer  - unavailable as my husband is doing free lance graphic work. I know this is the continual whine of late blooming techies but honestly! Sometimes it is an infuriating world.

So, I fast forwarded to Technorati site which to me is attractive in concept but dismal in design. Way too cluttered and pop culturish.  The blog statistics are really unbelievable so I appreciate that there's a way to find and be found but still........as I've heard it said......... the people who are code monkeys are not graphic designers. This kind of layout is a bother to wade through and very unappealing. Anyway, I did peek in to some conservative scary rants, some creepy college frat type info on bar types and some other random stuff. 

I will return here in January though to register my new blog because, hey, I'm looking for wide exposure now too!

WEEK 7 Once Again

Librarything was one of the few 23 things with which I was already familiar. When I began to use it I found it an interesting puzzle to decide how to choose what books would go into my library.  Other people's apparent catagorizing didn't appeal to me. I finally settled on books  that had been or are important to me and books that I'd love to talk about with anyone who had read them, books that I'd recommend  (some)and (some) books I've just read.

In other words, a fairly idiosyncratic system - which was also often evident in other's libraries and is part of what makes this Web 2 stuff all so very very cool.

Week 7

Week 7

Week 6

Whoever designed this course was a genius. 

This was a week when I might have said "too hard, no time , I'm overwhelmed"and packed it in. Instead, week #6 really did allow me time to pull back, take a breath and not feel like the train is leaving the station with everyone else on board but me!

I'm writing this weeks ahead, and still behind, but really appreciate the space that week 6 provided.

Week 5 Social Networks

I felt a little strange creating a Facebook - everyone seemed so young when I was checking it out - but there I am! I had to really work hard to figure out how to get photos from my iphoto to my Facebook album but I'm proud of my persistence (if not my language) in getting them on there.
Like Flickr, my excitement about this site is mainly being able to post and share photographs. Several years ago, I entered the on-line genealogy community and it's been a blast connecting with long lost family scattered around the world. This seems like a quick and easy way to share old photographs of distant relatives (I have a bunch of those) and I'm looking forward to doing that.
Again, the very best thing about doing this is the comfort I now feel in knowing about it. As a librarian it feels great to feel solid rather than out of the loop when kids and teens are coming in using social networks (as most of them are.)