Wikis

As I make a mad dash to finish before the stroke of midnight, I realized that I did this exercise eons ago and forgot to write about my experience! As many trollers on the internet, I've come accross more than a few helpful entries on Wikipedia. I've always thought it was a great source for tough to find information. But its one I rarely cite for customers, even though I've yet to find incorrect information, and have found the entries to be great stepping stones for finding more information on a given topic.

However, it was when I made my little entry on the Learn & Play wiki sandbox, I realized what it is actually like to enter and edit on a wiki. It was great! I did my edit, and when I went back a few days later I noticed another user put their link in the wrong place. I went ahead and moved it where it belonged and realized how powerful a wiki can be thanks to many editors. Even though I have always found the Wikipedia articles helpful, and knew that almost anyone could edit the entry, my gut told me that, multiple editors would cause problems and not solve them. Boy was I wrong. Like the Hip Hop Kids would say, "Multiple editors don't cause problems! They solves 'em! Yo!"

I love Hulu!

Posting not about a thing, though I should because I'm so far behind. I'll start catching up once the craziness of life and work subside. Hopefully by the end of this week.

Anyway, I had to share this SNL clip from Hulu. If you've never visited Hulu, take a look. You can find high quality video clips of your favorit shows and videos. Sure, you may have to watch a 30 second commercial, but its worth it.

Icebergs

Finally got around to reading the five perspectives on the future of libraries for thing #14. I actually enjoyed Anderson's "Away from the "icebergs"" article. His statement, "But if our services can’t be used without training, then it’s the services that need to be fixed—not our patrons." stuck with me the most. Like he said, its impossible for us to train every customer that walks through our doors. Our products need to be simple to use. Amen brother!

Yummy!

I created my own Delicous account in addition to looking at CML's account. Creating the account was simple, but getting the buttons to appear properly in the toolbar was anything but. A fellow Learn&Play'er asked me about this the other day and I didn't know. However, after doing a little investigating today I was able to figure it out. Yippee!

If you haven't created your own Delicious account, don't wait! Its great having access to all of your favorites from any computer. And it organizes them nicely to boot!

Twittering

Just figured out how to send messages from my phone to my Twitter account. I'm going to try it for a while and see which my friends prefer. My friend Tyrone loves Twitter and sends messages out all the time to both his friends and Twitter. He's been on my case about not posting anything new to Twitter since I opened my account...which was back in April.

I've actually learned to tell when I need to reply to a text from Tyrone. He frequently sends out funny revelations and quotes, so it took me a while to figure out. Texts directed towards me always begin with word "Hey".

The LibraryThing...thing

I've finally added some books to my LibraryThing account today. It had been so long since I created the account that it took a few tries to get my password correct. LibraryThing is an interesting concept, especially for someone like me. Unlike many of my colleagues I own very few books. I've moved so many times that I refuse to keep more than I have too. So I've always been a great advocate for libraries. Why own the book when I can borrow it from the library?

I did run into one glitch with LibraryThing. Can anyone tell me about the Jave script error messages when you are trying to add a book? I got this error a number of times today and it was quite frustrating. The only work around I could discover was selecting another entry to click to have the book added. Sure, I could eventually figure it out myself, but it could take a while and I'm still catching up. Help!

Back it Up!

Thanks to Ben the Libraryman I found the great image generator, LetterJames. The following image is for my friend Masako. We used to work out together at the IU Bloomington gym. After a while we began to notice another guy at the gym that was always there when we were and he always wore a jersey with the number 92 on it. So Masako this one is for you!