Well what do you know this thing really only took me 15 minutes to do! Well wiki's, hmm as far as things go I trust Wikipedia just about as much as i do any web site, so i have to base the information i get off of it against my current knowledge, and what i see elsewhere during my online searches.
In general the idea of more specific wiki's sounds like a good idea, you would hope that the people that are editing specific wiki's are more likely to be knowledgeable in their posts. I do like that it is a conglomerate of knowledge, so that where one person may be wrong there are others out there who can correct them. however just because a large group of people may accept something as fact does not mean it is necessarily true.
I edited the 23things wiki at: http://neflins23things.pbwiki.com/ i added a page titled "time"
got to go, big work load about to hit!
Rune Nighthawk
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Thing #11: Social media
Wow, been about a week since I have last posted, I'm falling behind.
Well this thing was the social media(as it says above). I reviewed the four different recommended sites and decided to set up an account with reddit.com . The reason I chose this site over the others was that in the tour it indicated that as I rate different articles it will bring ones that it thinks I will enjoy to my attention. Now the other sites may offer similar services but they did not seem to indicate them on their tours.
The article I tried to submit was: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7907570.stm
it turned out that the article had actually been submitted to reddit yesterday and so I simply voted on it. How many articles i have to vote on before it starts recomending topics for me i do not know.
Again I can see how this may be usefull to the library in many different areas, tracking local news, areas that are know to interest the patrons at that library ect. However in my job and the minimal amout of patron interaction i have, this tool will only be usefull to me if i use it at home.
and i have looked at some articles that i have found through reddit, one was on the front page about an amputee that now has a mermaid tail prosthetic: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10171471-1.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=Crave
and the other was just one i searched for.
well got to go, might be able to work some on the next thing today if it is a slow day.
Rune Nighthawk
Well this thing was the social media(as it says above). I reviewed the four different recommended sites and decided to set up an account with reddit.com . The reason I chose this site over the others was that in the tour it indicated that as I rate different articles it will bring ones that it thinks I will enjoy to my attention. Now the other sites may offer similar services but they did not seem to indicate them on their tours.
The article I tried to submit was: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7907570.stm
it turned out that the article had actually been submitted to reddit yesterday and so I simply voted on it. How many articles i have to vote on before it starts recomending topics for me i do not know.
Again I can see how this may be usefull to the library in many different areas, tracking local news, areas that are know to interest the patrons at that library ect. However in my job and the minimal amout of patron interaction i have, this tool will only be usefull to me if i use it at home.
and i have looked at some articles that i have found through reddit, one was on the front page about an amputee that now has a mermaid tail prosthetic: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10171471-1.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=Crave
and the other was just one i searched for.
well got to go, might be able to work some on the next thing today if it is a slow day.
Rune Nighthawk
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Thing #10: Tagging and Delicious
I have been doing the 23things mostly from my work computer because at home i didn't have all of the web addresses i needed to work on the 23thing. So I uploaded all of my Bookmarks from work onto my Delicious account. There were not really a large number of bookmarks, but because of delicious i can now work on 23things at home (should the urge ever hit me). However I decided to try something else this morning before work. I uploaded all of my home bookmarks onto Delicious. I just finished looking at it, and dang, i thought my bookmark menu was bad, but this is worse. I have almost 400 bookmarks that uploaded, and many of them i do not even remember having. Perhaps once i go through all the bookmarks and reorganize them, giving them more and better tags it might be useful to me, but the editing of a bookmark is so time consuming i am not sure that it is worth it.
In short: Delicious might work better if someone is just starting out making bookmarks, but the initial set up time for a person who has many bookmarks may take a very long time.
One suggestion i would make to delicious is to add an easier to edit set up for the bookmarks.
I do like the ability to have some bookmarks public and other private.
There does seem to be potential for delicious to be used in a research situation. For example a student may put all of the sites that are used in writing a research paper and share them with fellows students and visa versa so that all the students may benefit from useful sites found.
One aspect that might be useful in my job would be if the department had a delicious account and used it to keep track of hard to find library addresses, having it on delicious would allow any individual to have access to it, and not locked on one computer.
that is all for now!
Rune Nighthawk
In short: Delicious might work better if someone is just starting out making bookmarks, but the initial set up time for a person who has many bookmarks may take a very long time.
One suggestion i would make to delicious is to add an easier to edit set up for the bookmarks.
I do like the ability to have some bookmarks public and other private.
There does seem to be potential for delicious to be used in a research situation. For example a student may put all of the sites that are used in writing a research paper and share them with fellows students and visa versa so that all the students may benefit from useful sites found.
One aspect that might be useful in my job would be if the department had a delicious account and used it to keep track of hard to find library addresses, having it on delicious would allow any individual to have access to it, and not locked on one computer.
that is all for now!
Rune Nighthawk
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Thing #9: the slideshow
made a slide show with Zoho show, time to see if it worked.
looks like it should be working, will post on my experiences later by editing this post, and may accept the challenge by making one of each item.
EDIT:
Thank you for your patience. Now as i think i said in the slide show that the program is very similar to power point, i find the ease of use for power point to be greater. I have not yet found the functions for changing how the slides progress from one to another, or setting up a timing option to the slide show. the only real benefit i see to this type of program is you can post it directly onto a blog or web site. otherwise there are multiple ways you can take a powerpoint presentation from your home computer or office to a large meeting. Typically when I had a presentation in school to do I would have the file on a cd rom, a flash drive, and i would have emailed myself another copy of the presentation so that I would be very unlikely not to have access to my files.
I have looked briefly at the database sharing server, but have not yet made a database with it. mostly for the moment i cannot think of any information i would want in a database and accessable to the public. Though i can think it may be usefull for making and maintaining a group reading list for a library or school group.
and now i must go the department sign just fell off the door and i've got to fix it up.
if i do decide to take the challange i will just make a new post, but i am not sure if i will find something worthwhile to make a share.
Rune Nighthawk
looks like it should be working, will post on my experiences later by editing this post, and may accept the challenge by making one of each item.
EDIT:
Thank you for your patience. Now as i think i said in the slide show that the program is very similar to power point, i find the ease of use for power point to be greater. I have not yet found the functions for changing how the slides progress from one to another, or setting up a timing option to the slide show. the only real benefit i see to this type of program is you can post it directly onto a blog or web site. otherwise there are multiple ways you can take a powerpoint presentation from your home computer or office to a large meeting. Typically when I had a presentation in school to do I would have the file on a cd rom, a flash drive, and i would have emailed myself another copy of the presentation so that I would be very unlikely not to have access to my files.
I have looked briefly at the database sharing server, but have not yet made a database with it. mostly for the moment i cannot think of any information i would want in a database and accessable to the public. Though i can think it may be usefull for making and maintaining a group reading list for a library or school group.
and now i must go the department sign just fell off the door and i've got to fix it up.
if i do decide to take the challange i will just make a new post, but i am not sure if i will find something worthwhile to make a share.
Rune Nighthawk
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Thing #8: communication
Ah yes, communication. So any people talking to one another in so many different ways, I think we should ask, is anyone really listening? Just kidding, though I do think there is often too much talking and not enough listening in the world today, I'm not here to talk about that. up next we have IM, Texting, and conferences.
One real problem with IM and Texting is that it can very easily grow to obsess a person's life, though the same could be said of email and even the telephone. Is it worse than these forms of communication? I can't say that for sure or not. For the use of them, well for people who hate talking on the phone, like myself, IM can be a very good thing, though I usually end up chatting with someone who is talking with several other people and web surfing at the same time making responses slow, and somewhat annoying.
As for use inside of a library, i am not sure of the use of IM or text, at least not in my job. Some days I am near a computer and some days i am not, and when i am at a computer i don't always have time to check my email. And i have seen email's come and go very quickly, getting rid of the need for text messaging in my opinion. Now this may be different in positions where you are constantly on a computer, though i do agree this would add temptation for a worker to chat and socialize while working. Texting i have limited use with, and i can see where it is usefull in situations where it is not acceptable to be talking.
On web conferencing i have very little to say, the link to the pdf article was not working so i could not read that part of the thing, and when i went to OPAL i found some items i thought might be interesting but the only thing i got to work was the audio recording side of the conference. All the visualizations either did not open, or the entire link brought up a page that did not function. This may be something i am doing wrong, or it could be a problem with my library i'm not sure.
a quick word on the optional challange i have used pidgin (sp?) which is similar to Meebo, and i did enjoy having access to all my im accounts at the same time. Unfortionaly i am not one to heavily use any IM, so it has fallen the way of dusty unused computer programs on my hardrive. But for a person that uses alot of differnt IMs such a program would be very good to make use of.
Rune Nighthawk
One real problem with IM and Texting is that it can very easily grow to obsess a person's life, though the same could be said of email and even the telephone. Is it worse than these forms of communication? I can't say that for sure or not. For the use of them, well for people who hate talking on the phone, like myself, IM can be a very good thing, though I usually end up chatting with someone who is talking with several other people and web surfing at the same time making responses slow, and somewhat annoying.
As for use inside of a library, i am not sure of the use of IM or text, at least not in my job. Some days I am near a computer and some days i am not, and when i am at a computer i don't always have time to check my email. And i have seen email's come and go very quickly, getting rid of the need for text messaging in my opinion. Now this may be different in positions where you are constantly on a computer, though i do agree this would add temptation for a worker to chat and socialize while working. Texting i have limited use with, and i can see where it is usefull in situations where it is not acceptable to be talking.
On web conferencing i have very little to say, the link to the pdf article was not working so i could not read that part of the thing, and when i went to OPAL i found some items i thought might be interesting but the only thing i got to work was the audio recording side of the conference. All the visualizations either did not open, or the entire link brought up a page that did not function. This may be something i am doing wrong, or it could be a problem with my library i'm not sure.
a quick word on the optional challange i have used pidgin (sp?) which is similar to Meebo, and i did enjoy having access to all my im accounts at the same time. Unfortionaly i am not one to heavily use any IM, so it has fallen the way of dusty unused computer programs on my hardrive. But for a person that uses alot of differnt IMs such a program would be very good to make use of.
Rune Nighthawk
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Thing #7 - online image generators
well for fun I decided to dedicate all the fun things I did to my kitty....
ЗVIL КITTУ ЯЦLЭS ШФЯLD!!!!
fake cyrillic generator at: http://www.theworldofstuff.com/other/cyrillic.html
Fake id badge from : http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/
(had some other things there that looked like fun but the connection didn't seem to work right.)
aha i take it back, got another one to work.
and that's all i'm doing for now, it's time for my break and more work. not sure what these things could be used for. again not much for my position in my library, i can see where some things would be good with kids, some group meetings, and just about anything graphical you would likely find it out there some where. guess you just need to patience to look for things that you might need, if you have an idea ahead of time what you want to look for.
Rune Nighthawk
ЗVIL КITTУ ЯЦLЭS ШФЯLD!!!!
fake cyrillic generator at: http://www.theworldofstuff.com/other/cyrillic.html
Fake id badge from : http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/
(had some other things there that looked like fun but the connection didn't seem to work right.)
aha i take it back, got another one to work.
and that's all i'm doing for now, it's time for my break and more work. not sure what these things could be used for. again not much for my position in my library, i can see where some things would be good with kids, some group meetings, and just about anything graphical you would likely find it out there some where. guess you just need to patience to look for things that you might need, if you have an idea ahead of time what you want to look for.
Rune Nighthawk
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