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i'm now so close to 2.0 graduation, i can taste it!

this is my very last blog, probably forever.

Though i enjoyed my experience with web 2.0, aside from one or 2 applications i'v gone thru, i probably won't use much of it. i enjoy the social networking to some degree, i dislike the rss feeds and i really despise twitter. even blogging to me became such a project. i guess i just don't have it in me to spend my entire life on my computer. what happened to the old fashioned diary? a nice little book to put your thoughts on paper. instead it's all online. i will probably never keep a blog, to me it seems self indulgent, that people want to read my thoughts on everything. and than that becomes my problem with twitter as well. like how aston kutcher makes the news becasue he is the first to have 1 million twitter followers. WHO CARES? who likes aston kutcher anyway and why does he have 1 million people following him?

thru facebook and myspace, however, i have become reaquainted with old, close friends and that is a nice thing. though i think these two technolgies can often make a person unhealthy: constantly checking your site, having to have the most 'friends', stalking others, and some friends i know judge who their friends are due to the fact of them commenting on their facebooks or not. and no matter how private it is or how private you make yourself, there is no privacy at all...

in conclusion, i realize that much of my blogging was negative regarding all these web 2.0 sites. i guess deep down, i'm just an old fashioned kind of girl who thinks technology has gotten somewhat out of hand. i long for the old days...when i used to walk up hill, in the snow to school...both ways.

the end.

craigslist

i use ebay a little bit but i've never used craigslist. i know a lot of people do but i never had any desire to. it's a good site for selling things or looking for an apartment or something. but i also think it's kind of dangerous. i'm a bit of an overly anxious person anyway but i dont think the personal parts of craigslist are a good idea, very dangerous. especially since that whole craigslist killer came around. craigslist shouldn't be used for personal ads and things of that nature. that kind of turns me off to everything on that website. even this link:

http://longisland.craigslist.org/rid/1124894883.html

it says:
going to Albany to see the dead. Have an extra ticket and empty passenger seat. Will return after the show. Or if you have an extra seat I'd like to ride along.

does this seem dangerous to anyone else? how is this differentwho would get in the car with a stranger! c'mon!

but for things like this:
http://longisland.craigslist.org/msg/1137031112.html

a free piano if you pick it up! that's great, but you'll probably have to get it worked on. so for things like this i think craigslist is good.

Google Docs

i have used googledocs before, mostly Excel, for the battle of the books in the summertime at my full time job. i think it's a great idea because i can access my spreadsheets from anywhere and any computer. i don't need to email it to myself or worry about which copy is the most up to date (the one on my computer, email, or flashdrive?) plus, sometimes a few librarians are working on the spreadsheet together and so it works out well.

i don't think googledocs will replace microsoft office, but it's nice to have in addition to it. i use it a little differently.

What’s a Wiki?

I went to the PALS wiki and it was very instructional. i clicked into a bunch of different links but i didn't find anything useful to me.

I did like SJCPL Subject guides. I found the information they had on their more useful to everyday people, not just librarians. For example, the differences between a biography, autobiograhy, memoir, and journal. I looked under the subject of cooking and I thought it was helpful that they linked into different magazines like vegetarian times and books about cooking careers.

Overall, i like Book Lovers Wiki. i don't feel like there's a lot of information in there. but i like the links to the different books and i enjoy reading people's reviews. i got a lot of ideas about books that i would like to read by browsing this site. i'll probably use it some more today to see what else is on it.

I think a library wiki is a good idea and gets the community more involved in an active way, than just using the library's website or facebook or myspace pages. maybe an application that allows patrons to discuss programs that we've had or programs that they would like to see at the library might bring in more people.

finding new feeds

i went to bloglines and searched 'susan boyle' since she's all over the news this past week. and i found a clip of her singing 'my heart will go on' on CNN's larry king live. i also saw a clip from jimmy fallon's show that was really funny. at first i didn't see what the difference is between this website and google so i did a 'susan boyle' search on google and i did come up with different hits. i didn't see the jimmy fallon one. it's a good idea to be able to search blogs, but i just would never search blogs. i don't read blogs, i don't write blogs (except this one) and so i'll probably just forget about this website.

i played around on technorati, and again i will never use this site again. aside from me never being able to remember the name of it, i just have no use for searching blogs. i even looked up the top 100 blogs and saw nothing that interests me. when i used the search tool and typed in 'susan boyle' for lack of having anything else to search for, i was getting hits in spanish. i wasn't looking for hits in spanish. shouldn't it just default to english since it's a .com? i looked thru the entertainment tab and didn't see anything featured that interests me. i'll just stick to msn's news and entertainment feature. i'll never forget how to spell msn as opposed to technowhatever.

i skipped google reader rss feeds because i found that site to be so user unfriendly.

i looked at syndic8 and it's homepage is so unappealing that i couldn't even look thru it. i tried clicking into things but honestly, nothing made sense or it took to long to go to the next page. when it finally went to the tab 'news' it had information on restaruant franchises and christian info. i mean, what do i need this for again? it seems i just have to keep clicking into things before i might find something useful. who has time for this?

yet another negative bloggie blog blog!

discovering feeds in catalog

i didn't like the rss feed from google reader but i like the one on the library's website. this i'm more likely to use. i found the other one so confusing and frustrating. but this is all there in front of me and that's what i'm interested in: new books available, new dvds available, some newssites, etc...one of the things parents ask for is new dvds for kids. and we never really had a list, but this makes it so easy. the feeds on the catalog are all the popular news sites so i think that's great for easy access. it did take me a longer time to find the rss feeds on the catalog though. i knew they were there i just forgot where to get them thru. i couldn't find a way on the homepage to access the catalog feeds and was surprised they weren't there under the rss feeds link, that was just the library related materials.

i think that younger patrons will like the feeds for the most part. but the older ones may not be so open to this newer technology. it really does get confusing. also, i have very specific websites that i go to, and so i'm more likely to just have it under my favorites or type it into the browser. going to the library's website is just an added step that seems unnecessary.

RSS feed

Since i have a google gmail account i started to put together my google reader. and i find it very confusing. i'm not really sure how to find newsites. i clicked on a bundle to subscribe to but didn't want the entire bundle so it took me a little while to figure out how to delete it. the look of google reader is pretty boring. i like going to my specific newsites, i know where i'm going once i'm on that newsite: entertainment, health, local news....i thought google reader would be something that i'd use. but i doubt it. i'll play around with it and hopefully my mind will change.

i noticed that you can stay connected with myspace but not facebook. that needs to change. most people are dropping their myspace accounts in favor of facebook.

also, since gmail often has 'technical' problems, google reader seems to be having some as well and it just gets stuck.

Suffolkwave

Thursday, i attempted to download "A Bear Called Paddington"by Michael Bond while i was working at Mastic. Everything was very simple and step-by-step, but i guess the computer station i was on didn't have the newest version of the media needed to download it. So i waited until I went home and did it on my own computer. It's very simple and a great way to get titles that may otherwise be checked out. I'm not big into listening to books anyway, due to a very short attention span and because i'm a visual person and need to see the words in front of me. So if i were do download books they'd have to be children's and very short. but i know a lot of people that would get great use of this.

Flickr

While exploring flickr, i found a link to photos of only dogs on roofs. while i can't help but think this is dangerous, it let me to a picture that i liked:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jhirsch/145290669/

i'm a sucker for anything animal related.

Flickr's interesting. i like the use of tag clouds to find similar photos.