Thing 14 Sunday 3/22/09

I created an igoogle account, with various feeds of interest to me. Everything at a glance. No bouncing all over the place to view favorites. Big time saver to be sure.

Thing13 Sunday 3/22/09

This was easy. It also will come in handy (as will all of the things) as I embark on creating a website. This is all very timely for me. Good stuff.

Thing 12 Thursday 3/19/09

I don't think I care for the wiki. It seems to have a lot of potential to be a platform for rude behavior. Of course it depends on the personalities that are having the exchange but, to be able to change what a person has presented for discussion through deletion or altering the text doesn't strike me as the best way to share ideas or enjoy meaningful debate.

Thing 11 Thursday 3/19/09

Well this was easy...but I'm not sure what good it is to me. I can see on a library site that teens could have the lure of new information about their favorite artists and such.
For an individual, having an auto-source for everything that they want on a daily basis is pretty handy. It reminds me of RSS only more broad in scope.

Thing 10 Thursday 3/19/09

The term delicious isn't new to me. We have it on our library website. What I didn't get was what a great tool it is. To take have your favorites waiting on you wherever you are and whatever PC you might be on is a great idea.
For the patron to be able to have our favorites at their beck & call would be a convenient feature.

Thing 9 Thursday 3/12/09

I have had trouble with this one. I tried to get it to display right on the blog but, to no avail. I lost the code. I'll have to do this one again.

Ok...back again. I gave in to using the existing template and got it on the page. COOL!

Thing 8 Monday 3/9/09

I have an IM account on google. I used it once or twice. It always seemed like"Why didn't you just call?" I will go into it further and see how it feels again.
In a library setting, where there are so many things going on, it just seems like one more thing to have to monitor. In an "Ask a librarian" setting it makes perfect sense, but past that even after reading all of the pro IM stuff, it doesn't seem practical in an every day, all day long scenario.