Thing 3

The statistics on Technorati are inconceivable to me. I knew there were a lot of blogs out there but that many? Whew. And I was pleased to note that our new president is a blogger. Anyway when I searched on Technorati for Flogging Molly, which is one of my favorite bands and a little obscure so I thought they might make a good search, it only came up with 269 hits and some of those seemed sort of off the point. Then I searched Blog-plus and it came up with 5542 and I don't really understand why. I guess I need to cruise around these different sites because I don't understand the differences. It seemed that Blog-plus was easier for me to navigate through but I did like the display of videos on Technorati.

Thing 2

It seems that most of Thing 2 was about convincing us that 2.0 was well on it's way and we had all better wake up and get going. I personally don't need to be convinced as the library I work at is well on it's way with online database access through our web page, internet and laptop check out at the library and YA gaming days (not the killer stuff as mentioned). The branch I work at right now has very nice places for small children with computers just for them with games and stories with education as the goal and a room for the teens where they can socialize and look at the internet in groups for school or play (mostly play it seems but at least they're in a safe place).
I really liked the idea of *meeting our users in engaging spaces online* that sounds intriguing- and using the library web page as a tool where *people can make connections and talk to each other*-cool too. I liked the librarian who makes himself available through Myspace.
As far as making ourselves essential to the community-I think we're doing that pretty well at least with the young folk. We're their place to go after school. But not that we can't improve I hope to see that soon and it's all kind of exciting.
As far as having the time to do the 23 things, well if they can still give me some time at work I should be ok.

More of Thing 1

Hey the picture came through. For a non-techie such as myself this is good.

I'm off..........

Thing 1
Ok, I actually created my own blog. How about that? It wasn't hard either. I've never thought about doing one of my own before. Now I just need to fix it up a bit. Maybe add a photo of one of the 23 cows. Maybe the rest won't be so hard.