Thing 19-Other Social Networks

I looked at these but I didn't sign up for any yet. I think I might sign up for Gather though. I liked the genealogy groups they have. I started a page on Catster a little while ago which I think is really fun. I've been getting the third degree from some of my co-workers about my comments on Facebook. So I might take a closer look at that. They said it's a great way to stay connected with friends that are far away. I do have friends in other states I'd like to keep better contact with. Last.fm looks like it might be something I'd like too. I've had a lot of fun looking at the different Youtube videos that others have posted on their blogs.

Thing 18-Facebook/Myspace

I looked at both of these and I think that the library ones are really nice. It's a good way to expose the library to the younger set, on their terms. For personal use I find them a bit scary and sad. Scary in the sense that you can tell any sort of lie you want, like the old perv pretending he's 20 and the 13 yr old pretending she's 20 and meet me at the coffee shop type of thing. And sad that getting together is done online and not at someone's house or the beach etc. But I guess if this is the way young people like to do it what can an oldie like me say. I just hope they all have the other type of friends also. I can see also that it could be a big time eater like my little friends the sock puppets say:

Thing 17-Podcasts

Wow! is all I can say. This is so cool. With Podcasts I can go and find a specific topic I want to hear and just get that and not all the commercials and all the other yapping that you get on the radio. I liked Podcast.com & Yahoo & Podcastalley.com. I couldn't decide which one I liked best. I listened to Irish & Celtic Music #54 by Marc Gunn on Podcast. It was exactly the kind of music I like. I think the library could use Podcasts in lots of different ways, like book clubs, book reviews, author interviews etc. I am definitely going to use Podcasts myself from now on. But one thing I wanted to mention is the really scary advertisement that Podcast.com had. The "I Cured My Yellow Teeth!" one. Those are Dinosaur teeth! The biggest teeth I've ever seen on a human!

Thing 16-Again for the musical fun of it

Awww! Now you got me started on Youtube. I think the uses for Youtube are endless. Whatever you want to learn to do is on Youtube. I learned how to load my Xtranormal movie from Xtranormal to Youtube by watching a Youtube video made by a little kid. This is a very wonderful video with Martyn Bennett who died in 2005.

Thing 16-Youtube just for the fun of it

Thing 15

Rollyo is a funny little thing. I don't know how we could use it at the library but I could see how a teacher might find it useful. I think I'm going to explore it a bit to see if there are any civil war sites I don't know about. There's my little red button up there. I actually put it there without help. I'm getting better at this stuff.

THING 14

I decided to use Igoogle because the lay out seemed a lot less busy and easy to see at a glance. I really like this because I can put up whatever I want and I'm not overrun with stuff like on bloglines. The gadgets are endless it seems, at least I didn't get through all the pages. I put up the weather and jokes and quotes from Confucius, NPR news and a moving hand showing the ASL alphabet. And google let me put up one for my Yahoo mail. Oh yeah and Youtube. I'll be using this page a lot at home. I made it my internet homepage. The calenders I don't think I'll use myself and yeah the to do lists are too much work. I'm not a manager or someone with big projects so I couldn't see myself using the project management things so I don't really have much to say about that. If you have an Iphone with Remember-the-milk you can put your to do list on your phone which I think is handy.

Thing 13- Library Thing and Update

Update: I decided to change this to just a button because I thought having some of my book titles floating around was just to messy looking.

Well I did get a Library Thing gadget up on my blog but it wasn't my own doing. I tried and tried but kept getting an error message when I tried editing my html like the Library Thing said. My co-worker the saved the day and now it's up there. What he did wasn't what was directed. He went to my blog's layout page and then 'add a gadget' and then scrolled to HTML/Javascript and pasted it into there. I guess. Anyway I really like this Library Thing thing. It's exactly what I need for myself and I think our patrons could really use it for their read-it-already lists. Some are very disappointed that we can't keep track of what they've brought back. I really liked the Library Thing for Libraries. I think our patrons would like to be able to add input into our catalog. Library Thing Local would be very good to replace our paper program guide and include other places around town that we don't know about.

Thing 12- Wiki

I liked this Wiki stuff even though I think it's a little weird to be able to go in and edit something when you may not know what you're talking about. But if you do, I think it's great. I really liked the Albany Library staff wiki and think we should have one for Circ at ACLD. I think it would be a quick way to update info and stay in touch with each other. Info gets emailed but then it's hard to find sometimes. I added an entry on the NEFLIN wiki and that was very easy. I can see why teachers would ban Wikipedia because if anyone can edit it then, what is fact?

Thing 11

I looked at the different social media news things and signed up for Digg. I looked at the others and liked this one the best. I found these news sites interesting in that you can add news you like and vote on the ones you like. BUT as I don't really have faith that all the news is all the truth (and this goes for TV, newspapers, etc) I'll take it all with a grain of salt. I don't know if our library would have any use for this type of thing. It seems to be a big waster of time and some of the articles were a bit hateful. I looked at Diggs tools and they have what's called the Diggwidget which allows you to display news on your site like this blog if I wanted to, which I don't. It seemed quite easy to do. I clicked on a news item under Stumbleupon that I wanted to email to someone and it asked me for my email address. When I put it in my whole contact list came up, even some contacts I have deleted from my list at home. I really liked how you can get these freaky news bits about all types of topics but I don't think I should get into this myself as I don't have the time. I mean I'd have to cut down on my Youtube time, you know?