Ed note: Lunge 11

Searching those blogs with Google

I began with a dry search on marketing libraries and guess what? I returned dry blog entries about Marketing! Heavens, can't possibly subscribe to one of those, my blog would keel over with boredom. So next search was library and superheroes. Ta da! Really intersting stuff popped up that looked as if it might be quite fun.

Then, scrolling down the page, nice Google asked if I wanted to subscribe to superheroes libraries - Google Blog Search, which I did and it sent me off to my Reader. It is rather handy that all these things are linked and help each other out, don't you think? At least with all these facilities connected together, you can keep track of all the information in one spot!

So I did another search on Library and movies and found this Blog http://bplmovies.blogspot.com/ It allows you to give opinions on movies and that is shared by all who look at the blog - do I want to subscribe? Possibly.


Ok, last search.......
Librarians and image. And lookee here: Librarians--The Image and the Myth http://stereotype-librarian.blogspot.com/. Now that sounds like my kind of thing. I will subscribe immediately.
This is a very handy tool, allowing searching across complete blogs and single entries. and of course the usual search function limitations of date and author searching are helpful in the usual ways. However as I am doing quite superficial searching I am sure that I am not encountering the pitfalls and problems that I read about in Jonothan Bailey's article.
(Ed note: Lunge 10) See also google reader search listed under my bloglist.

Hi! Remember me?

Oh yes, enough of that...so it has been a while but life is like that.
What happening?
Well, here's a link to my Delicious bookmarks :http://delicious.com/e44820 (Ed: note Lunge 9)

And I have put some things in there that I would look at, some more frequently than others but they have a certain library/marketing/fun promotion feel to them. Ikea is fun anyway....but I wish all our furniture looked like that - Business is a bit grey...... How will people ever believe that Librarians are fun if our workspace doesn't reflect that fun image? It's not all fines and books unavailable.....

Huge potential for sharing info amoungst work peoples, student peoples and social peoples. and accessable all day, everyday and then some. Yet another tool which gets stuff out there for many people to have access to. And isn't that what all this web 2.0 technology is all about?

And the movie bookmark? Well, just a bit of fun really, but again shows that Librarians can be out there adventuring and involved in dasterdly troubles and save the world - we are not all dull, thankyou. Well, ok there are three dull Librarians in the world... we try not to talk about them much.

So now others can look at my bookmarks and say," Well, lookee that". What conclusions they draw from my bookmarks is another matter altogether..see what you think.

Reddit

I have just been writing for 45 minutes and the stupid blog just came up with an error message when I tried to post my comments. This scumbag 2.0 technology lost all my work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and now I am reinventing the wheel and it won't be as good as my first draft - but you'll have to take my word on that.

All I can remember that I said was I came, I saw and I reddit.
This is a forum for people who wish to draw attention to stuff. There is social, political and radical information and news links. The readers get to vote for stories and comment on stories. But in this anon world we ask, who is reading and who is commenting?

There is anti Bush, anti Palin and even anti these anti's. Which is fair, it is a forum for people to express themselves. Reddit is a testament to the fact that people feel powerless about what is going on in the world around them. By commenting and expressing an opinion they can at least feel they are contributing to the discussion and that their little voice may provoke a reaction.

Then there is Lego man - Un immense porte-avions en Lego!! and several pictures devoted to his naval aircraft carrier built out of lego. Very accurate and quite cute if you are into that kind of thing. It raked up 147 comments. One comment: "never seen a navy ship with everyone smiling like that... rather odd and creepy." and this: "Anyone else have the urge to go dress up like a Japanese reptile and smash the **** out of this dude's creation...or am I being unamerican?"

So people can express themselves and if you have time on your hands you can read a lot and comment a lot. Ok, so it is not my cup of tea, it is too US centric and too much of the old US of A can be overwhelming. But if you have something to say post it and see what others have to say. Why not? But who is reading and who is commenting?

Lunge 8

Ah ha

Well, according to the experts, the list in Google reader is indeed the way to go. Yay for technology.

I think I am now ready to move on to the next bit.

Community 2.0: A Run down.

Times have indeed changed and it looks as if it is for the better. We are now obsessed with comunicating online - the newer it is and the more exciting the more likely we are to latch on and go with it. The more we use it, the more we discover the variety of ways in which we can use it - work, social, self publishing, commercial, environmental, education and creativity. And of course for general fun and doing stuff just because it is there. (See a reference I made to octopuses in an earlier post.) We can see what has been written, what others are saying about it, edit it, comment on it, send a poke to it and even list our ten favourite bits of it.

Information is all around and consumers and users are putting anything and everything out there and it is bouncing all over the place and back again.

Is is quality information? Some of it is, some of it is educational and some of it peer reviewed. Some of it is a bunch of stuff we like, cause we do. Web 2.o technologies are being harnessed for good, evil and for all those people who like the Muppet Show, so they can chat about it. Mind you, all those list of the amazing facts about Chuck Norris are really annoying!

After all, my gentleman now has a Facebook friend living in New York purely on the basis that they both like Phillip K. Dick the author. Is this a bad thing? No, it saves joining a bookclub and going to meetings. and you can wear your pj's if you want to.

The possibilities are endless - providing the server is up and running!
(Ed: Lunge 7)

homework

So for your homework: explore RSS and feeds by asking two people for their blog URL from your work group and subscribe to their feeds.

Arrgh! I have no idea whether I did this right. I have two feeds for blogs in google reader. Is that what I should do? Or should it somehow link to my blog?

Technology is too much for me I must confess. I think I should quit now.

(Ed: Lunge 3)

Ooops

hmm, yes it has been a while and I have a confession to make. I have been looking at Facebook. But I still don't really get it. I send plants and gifts to people who send them back. Is this real communication or just letting people know that you are aware that they exist?

What ever happened to writing letters?

What ever happened to face to face communication?

Excuse me, I have to go and throw an octopus at someone.