Thing 5

Dan hard at work, originally uploaded by Markus Family in Florida.

If this works you'll get to see a picture of me at work. I actually et up this account in December to get pictures to family so they could upload them to digital picture frames. There seemed to be a lot of steps to set this up and post it to my blog. Hopefully now that it is set up adding additional pictures will be easier. I can foresee using Flickr in the Library to help advertise programs.

Thing 4

This was a fairly easy Thing once I realized that the RSS feeds I subscribed only show up in my Google Reader account NOT on my blog (duh!). I'm signed up for all of the blogs I'm following plus some other sites of interest.
We'll see in a couple days if they are working.

Thing 3

I searched Technorati and Blogpulse with the terms Florida and Librarian. Unless you are already familiar with Boolean searches or go to the Advance Search page you will come up with many responses that don’t come close to finding what you want. With the Boolean/Advanced Search you still get many unrelated blogs. Technorati offers a simple way to filter your results. Blogpulse forces you to do all of your filtering on the advanced search page. Searching the phrase Florida Librarian resulted in two 2 item lists which were unique. Other searches I did resulted in similar results. I did discover that Technorati allows you to search by a specific language. In Technorati my name listed Zero results but in Blogpulse I got 29 results in a language I didn’t even recognize, my best guess is that is either a Eastern European or a Middle Eastern language.

In short if your searching blogs for information you need to be as specific as possible.

Can You Say Hyperbole

This tid bit also is from the Thing 3 readings on Technocrati

“Earlier this year I wrote on my blog [http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2008/06/my-vision-for-s.html], ‘Honestly I am not envisioning anything other than this; every single human being posting their thoughts and experiences in any number of ways to the Internet.’ That's where we are headed and blogging is a big part of that.”
Fred Wilson
Managing Partner
Union Square Ventures
www.avc.com/a_vc

I'm sure this will come true as soon as we can get iphones all of the starving, destitute and oppressed people in the world. Maybe we will be able to deliver them in our flying cars.

Scary Thought for the Day

From the readings on blogs from Techocrati comes this tid bit

“Although today's form of blogging is a volunatary form of self-expression, in the future our experiences, actions, locations, and preferecnes will be auto-recorded directly to the web.”
“The future of blogging will be an auto-synching of our lives directly to the web —often a quiet recording in the background”
Jeremiah Owyang
Senior Analyst, Social Computing
Forrester Research web-strategist.com/blog

I can't think of anything scarier than this view of the future.

Thing 2

I neglected to title my last post.

Thing 2 is a lot of heavy reading designed to explain why Web 2.0 and Library 2.0 are/will be great opportunities for libraries to maintain their stature and place in society. I agree that Libraries must understand and use every new technology to further their mission and importance in society.I do have an issue with the blog 11 reasons why Library 2.0 exists and matters. It states that "If we are going to play host to non-authoritative content (which it is when it comes from our patrons), then how do we designate that? L2 ushers in an era where this becomes something libraries need to do. There is a lot of fantastic non-authoritative data–we just need to get off our high horses and decide to make it available. The matter of how to mark it as non-authoritative is still pending, of course." There may be "fantastic non-authoritative data" but as I see it there is much more that is less than accurate and much less authoritative. Libraries have to vigilant about playing host to non-authoritative data because simply labeling it as such will not dissuade may people from treating it as FACT.

100% Bartram

100% of Bartram Trail's staff have established blogs for NEFLIN's 23 Things.
Way to go staff!

Registration

I just completed the 23 Things registration, but I don't know if it worked. My blog isn't listed at http://neflins23things.blogspot.com/

First Post

So far the Thing #1 isn't that hard. I got through registration with no apparent problems.