week 6....library thingummy...

registered for library thing...added some books to my library...got a bit sad about how few books i've read for pleasure in the last few years...i've been doing part-time courses and i just can't do books while i'm studying - turn into a magazine/newspaper reader which is what i think i am at heart anyway...it also made me think of nick hornby's book reviews where he lists books bought and books read...the first time i read those i found it really reassuring because i'm a demon for buying books when i've tons of unread ones at home...

facebooked

well another long break and not too many 'things' done...so i'll just fill the gap with some idle chatter...usually find it works...

Credit: Geeklogie

so on to facebook...i'm still one of the unconverted i'm afraid...i think it might be a generation thing - younger people seem much more comfortable putting themselves out 'there'...mark zuckerburg says that the 'age of privacy is over' and maybe he's right...when researching stuff for my course i'm often amazed at how much you can find out about authors, through their blogs or websites or whatever...it seems the norm in the US particularly to have an online portfolio to put yourself out there, like a CV or whatever...i don't think i'm ready for that, but maybe it'll come over here after a while like most things...but getting back to facebook, i've recently closed my account which i had for a year or so...a good few of my friends have accounts but i found it a bit repetitive as my 'wall' was full of postings by the same few heavy users (not in the trainspotting sense, i just mean they write on facebook a lot)...posting about this and that but nothing in particular...when i did contact people on it i used to use the private messaging thing anyway so in the end i thought why bother...basically i'm just cranky...

as i said before i don't tend to follow people i know in 'real' life' on twitter so i don't find the same problem there as i usually have a reason for following them...that probably sounds like i'm a stalker or something...maybe i AM....WHO KNOWS....

dewey decimal rap

we should use this in our library inductions next year...

tagxedo only...

i thought i'd written enough waffle to try a word cloud...wordle was playing tricks on me so i used tagxedo...v easy and fun...got a bit obsessive about the shape and colour options so had to step away from the screen...

so-shall we network?...groan...week 5...

well i haven't crawled around my web 2.0 much in the last week or so but i thought i would post some drivel about social networking to try and get things moving again...

watched the socialnomics video...interesting...i'm not sure i see social networking as a marketing tool for institutions...i think it would be more useful for communication with their 'live' community...say for students or alumni looking for campus news, rather than school leavers looking for a prospectus...although i'm liable to change my mind about that so don't quote me on it...oh i forgot you couldn't anyway because i'm ANONYMOUS!!!!!  ANONYMOUS!!!!!

twitter i really like, though i don't connect with friends on it at all, and i've never tweeted...so i'm probably not using it in the true 'social network' sense...i just follow accounts on it, some work, some study and some play...i find it a really cool way to keep up to speed in different things....although tweets are only 140 characters, very often they'll point towards an interesting article or site that i wouldn't have seen otherwise...there are lots of librarians and IT people who use it in that way...the librarians i follow tend to be at the more 'techy' end of libraries, so it may be that that community is quicker to use it than others...also, at times it's hard to separate the wheat from the chaff...i think it's good to do a 'weed' of accounts you follow every now and then...

that's all for now...thanksbetojaysis says you...