It's a Wrap - yum, I'll take Chicken!

I just erased my whole post, and it was great, and poetic and beautiful, and it's all gone! #@(^. Now you'll have to take what ever I can remember ...

It's been great working through this set of lessons. I think it has dragged us out of our comfortable armchairs, where we held our books and flipped the pages by hand ...

Not that I fear ever losing the "book experience". We used to worry about that (remember reading about Vannevar Bush?), but now we see this is about connections, and joining in with the race as it undergoes a social facelift.

I hope to use the flickr - my favorite site by far - and facebook, myspace and LT at a minimum. I can see YouTube also for library applications, and work/personal applications like poetry readings, which makes me think the process will probably blur the line for all of us.

Leaf falls, page turns, book opens ... we are seeing ourselves as part of a growing, protean organism - the world - and we are gestating. If we feed ourselves well, we will find a thousand ways to be born for our patrons and our communities, and ... our selves.

I will sign up for the second session. I think the process was great. I would only suggest, speak up on the podcasts a bit more. And I suggest putting more specific instructions for some of the sites, so we don't have to search for hours to find what we need.

Thanks for allowing me to take part in this process of building our future history.

For my incentive I choose the iTunes gift certificate for $25.

Looking forward to the second set of lessons!

The Library Thing that Ate Cleveland ... film at 11.

I give Library Thing 3 Trekking Poles. It was super easy to sign on, I am happy with the no-personal info requirements. I only don't like that there's a cost for over 200 titles. Although if there is going to be one, offering a lifetime option is good. (I have seen other "lifetime" offers collapse with time though - usually when someone else takes over the operation.)

I could not find the way to link until I did a search and figured out it was under widgets. I will try to paste in the code here and hope it comes out all right.

My link should show what titles I have listed. In addition, I am trying to find a title given by the suggester, but I get no tab or link saying suggester, and there is no page in the help for Suggester or Library Suggester. This is frustrating. I will try the link given in the AIT, but I don't see why that page isn't located somewhere when I am logged in. Something ain't right!

... OK, I couldn't make the Suggester work under tags. But the Unsuggester did respond. I got Kant - Pure Reason and Confession of Augustine, both of which I highly prize. But, however, I only had poetry books listed as a baseline to measure against. There was also one of the shopaholic books my wife might read but which are not of interest to me.

Here I am going to try to paste my link: (see you next week) :

Nope, didn't work...oh well...

Face the book, this is my space, dude!

This week gets 4 Trekking Poles for being absolutely new to me, yet getting me started on what will be an adventure lasting a lifetime.

Facebook was hard, MySpace was easy. That was my experience.

And after looking all over, trying help, searching google for advice, and exploring everything I could find, I could not find a credible, easy to understand way to put a link to my facebook page here. (So I feel it's not my fault after all that effort!)

But my MySpace link is:

http://www.myspace.com/johndey18

On to the next week!

Flickr in the night

Before I get to this week's events, I have to amend my last entry on Wikis. I gave it 3 Trekking Poles as a rating, down a notch only because I was already familiar and using wikis in my work as a chat reference librarian.

Now to this week's: Flickr, a really cool photo sharing site. 4 Trekking Poles here.

I am completely new to taking pictures, and also to sharing them this way. I have nieces and nephews who do it like the back of their hand, though none has used Flickr yet. The closest I come is when I got a link for my wedding photos from the photograher. (I should check to see if those are still there.)

It was cool to put up some photos and describe them. I was really easy to find Jill and the library and add them as contacts. I could see having a photostream for different events at the library that I might be involved in, such as poetry readings.

Looking forward to next week's lesson ... dreaming 2.0 ...