Okay, "Never mind" as Roseanne Roseannadanna used to say after her rant...
I opened a Facebook account. It was easy and I can keep everything private. What a hoot—I discovered my 20-something nephews are on there. I've also made a friend and posted a few silly messages on my wall, as well as on his.
Not being of the Millennial generation, I'm still sort of stumped as to why everyone thinks that anyone else is so interested in what they're posting. I've been reading a lot about the phenomenon, but it's still very much a quandary to me.
A recent article gave some insightful information on this, entitled "Generation Y: We're just not that into Twitter" on cnet News (June 23, 2009).
If you're like me and looking for a way to better understand Generation Y, read this article. I'm tempted to pick up the book by the 2 Ph.D. authors that's mentioned in there, "The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement" by Twenge and Campbell.
I joined 3 groups: 1) In the Library With the Lead Pipe; 2) Libraries and Librarians; and 3) Digital Libraries. I need to cogitate some more about the fan portion...
Friday, June 26, 2009
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Thing #8: Facebook
Oh, dear, this is the one thing I've been dreading. Privacy is important to me. Facebook owns any content you upload. You can pick up stalkers. Although I enjoy reading about my librarian colleagues, some of the posts I've read make my eyes bug out because they just let it all hang out.
At one of my first professional positions, I used to argue the privacy issue with one of the engineers there over and over again. He would say, "What are they going to do to you if such-&-such information becomes public?" (This was pre-Internet, ha!) I'd say, "Fire you." He'd say, "They can't do that, you could sue them for wrongful discharge." Yeah, right. An example would be disclosing you have some sort of degenerative disease. (Which I don't, but that's my concern, not anyone else's. That's the point!) Corporate management (especially in Texas) is fairly unscrupulous and they'd make up some excuse to get you off the payroll.
If only there were a benevolent moderator out there who would hide items that were too descriptive of who you are and where you work or live—it's just sad how someone can cash in on having that knowledge. I know I sound paranoid. I can't help it.
Doing thing #8 will have to wait for this weekend, when I can set up my Facebook site at home.
At one of my first professional positions, I used to argue the privacy issue with one of the engineers there over and over again. He would say, "What are they going to do to you if such-&-such information becomes public?" (This was pre-Internet, ha!) I'd say, "Fire you." He'd say, "They can't do that, you could sue them for wrongful discharge." Yeah, right. An example would be disclosing you have some sort of degenerative disease. (Which I don't, but that's my concern, not anyone else's. That's the point!) Corporate management (especially in Texas) is fairly unscrupulous and they'd make up some excuse to get you off the payroll.
If only there were a benevolent moderator out there who would hide items that were too descriptive of who you are and where you work or live—it's just sad how someone can cash in on having that knowledge. I know I sound paranoid. I can't help it.
Doing thing #8 will have to wait for this weekend, when I can set up my Facebook site at home.
Thing #7: RSS Feeds
NT23 things are beginning to blur together. I played with "adding a subscription" (again) in Google Reader and also using the RSS subscribe link. Both easy and intuitive—my kind of tools! The problem with RSS integrated into Outlook is that all the feeds go directly into my RSS folders and I often forget to go read the messages. This totally defeats the purpose. Having the reader in the browser with a side window you can scroll is much, much better.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Thing #6: Blog Readers
Fantastic! This is a great way to easily manage and keep up with my subscribed blogs. The scrolling blue box and keeping track of what I've already read are such useful features of Google Reader. Using bookmarks in my browser was just not an efficient way to keep up.
This brings to mind the Dilbert cartoon where Dogbert says, "Information is gushing toward your brain like a firehose aimed at a teacup". Peter Morville had a slide with the cartoon in the "Ambient Findability" presentation he gave at one of the Vision Sessions at NASIG's annual conference this year.
Water, water everywhere...information, information everywhere...
"A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention."
—Herbert Simon, Nobel Laureate Economist
This brings to mind the Dilbert cartoon where Dogbert says, "Information is gushing toward your brain like a firehose aimed at a teacup". Peter Morville had a slide with the cartoon in the "Ambient Findability" presentation he gave at one of the Vision Sessions at NASIG's annual conference this year.
Water, water everywhere...information, information everywhere...
"A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention."
—Herbert Simon, Nobel Laureate Economist
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Thing #5: Image Generators
I'm taking a very helpful group workshop for NT23 Things #3 through #5. I've generated a cartoon image:
I also tried Image Chef and it's oh so easy to use! One of my loosing campaigns here out at the Annex:
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Thing #3: Flickr
It sure feels redundant opening yet another e-mail account, this time on Yahoo! Did it anyway, and opened the Flickr account as well, but I don't have a camera here at work, so I've uploaded the image of an open book. This is ironic, since I'm being extremely private about this whole North Texas 23 things effort and am specifically not posting any information that is indicative of my job, life, and particulars, beyond commonalities.
Obviously, I don't get the whole social networking thing. I'm just a troglodyte.
Hey, has anyone tried the new search from MSN, called Bing? There's a gorgeous photo of a desert with colorful hot-air balloons on the homepage and you can roll your mouse over the landscape to get little pop-up windows with interesting trivia, here and there all around. I particularly like the image search. Try "librarian" and you get some primo quality images, plus as you scroll down the page you get more-&-more hits, rather than having to keep hitting "page forward". Lots of nice, thoughtful features. Pretty cool.
I know thing #3 is about Flickr, but I figure blogging is a great way to share new stuff and this is an image source!
Obviously, I don't get the whole social networking thing. I'm just a troglodyte.
Hey, has anyone tried the new search from MSN, called Bing? There's a gorgeous photo of a desert with colorful hot-air balloons on the homepage and you can roll your mouse over the landscape to get little pop-up windows with interesting trivia, here and there all around. I particularly like the image search. Try "librarian" and you get some primo quality images, plus as you scroll down the page you get more-&-more hits, rather than having to keep hitting "page forward". Lots of nice, thoughtful features. Pretty cool.
I know thing #3 is about Flickr, but I figure blogging is a great way to share new stuff and this is an image source!
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