a provoking article about web 2.0 (thing 2)

Minitex just sent out a link to this article by a librarian from Gustavus.
http://insidehighered.com/views/2008/02/18/fister
It and the comments (at least as of 2:56 p.m. on 2/21/08) are worth reading.

It brings points that I too have been wondering about
--free information, free access, but what is the real price....who is cacheing the data about what we click on and what are they going to do with it
--protecting one's identity online. I think we need more guidelines and 23 Things could be a place to do this.
--all the issues with intellectual property and journal access etc.
--librarians and libraries as the purveyors and protectors of our information access rights.

Thing 5

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These mashups are interesting and something that I never knew about before either.
Indeed, some of them are endless sops of time. I just HAD to try the visual Suduko which is hard if the color value of some of the images is similar.

I am not sure how these would be useful to our library, though I could see doing a collage of photos. However, I couldn't try this out yet with this post since I don't have enough photos loaded yet and the place to do this wanted yet ANOTHER registration and I fear the ability to keep track of so many passwords, as I have mentioned before.

Gaak! In the preview of this post, the words fit across without breaking up. It must be the constraints of the design template I am using but I don't understand which things in the html of that template I need to change to make the body of it wider. Help...does anyone know how to do this???

Book Stacks....thing 4

Book Stacks
Originally uploaded by firemnlibrary

Here it is....however, it is not coming over from uploading in blogger with the pop up note?

I just looked at St.Bens/St.Johns...it appears that their photos with popup notes aren't in their library blog or library website either....just on their Flickr account????

It would be really cool to be able to import such thing into a library blog and/or library web site? IS it possible???

more Thing 4: What a GREAT IDEA.. or maybe not...see the post that is above this one

After looking at what St. Johns and St. Bens libraries are doing with photos with links to their catalogs, I am full of ideas on using this to connect with our library users!

(Edited..see post above this one...there may be no way to get the photo with the pop up link into one's blog and/or website...maybe it only pops up in Flickr?? If so, not what I want to do)

So, had to figure out how to add a note that will pop up upon mousing over the photo. This is easy...just click on the Add A Note icon above your photo.

Then, how to make it link...well that is html. Couldn't remember the syntax:



Just to get the line to show the actual code above was a challenge! Since Blogger is an html editor itself, if you put in the code, it just changes to a highlighted link. I had to copy the code from another source and put it into a picture editor (used Fireworks)and save it as a .png image and then edit it to a better size in some MS picture editor and then upload it as no format and move the code in the blog entry to where I wanted it!

Now I want to show you the photo!

Cluster Map

I also added a cluster map (see who is looking at the blog from world locations) on the right. I saw that there was one in the 23 Things Blog and said, well, how hard can that be? Not hard. You just have to register somewhere else and have another password. HA!

I have put it on my personal blog too but I am not sure if I can do that? Maybe I need to register that blog too? I just put in the code into the personal blog. Maybe that means that stats from both blogs will be aggregated? Maybe I need to register that blog address separately rather than just sticking the code in.

Does anyone know?

Edited: I decided that I had to register the other blog too, so I did.

Flickr ..part of thing 4

entrydesks
Originally uploaded by firemnlibrary

Here is a photo of the librarians desks at the Fire/EMS/Safety Library. I created a NEW yahoo account and a thus a NEW Flickr account for work because Flickr has a limit to how many photos can be available total for loading (as I recall it is 200 total?) before you have to pay them to keep the photos available.

I just set up a Flickr account for the personal blog about 10 days ago and don't want to use up the photo limit for this work blog.

So, WOE is me....another email account and password.....NO!

I admit, I haven't read all the Flickr info in Thing 4 yet, but knew I had these photos available at work and wanted to get them up for folks to see our library!

I created this blog entry in Flickr, not in Blogger.

I am now editing this post in Blogger. You do your edits in Blogger, not flickr!!!

rss feeding frenzy??? (thing 3)

I am not being very successful here. I signed up for Google reader. I have signed up for some RSS feeds.

Very confused on how Google reader displays things and it seems like going to an RSS reader is just another thing one needs to look at. (I admit, I have had RSS reluctance for a while.) I set up some folders in Google reader and now am wondering if I can move them around. Tired of having 8 windows open on my computer (with help windows and target urls and Blogger and Google reader etc) when I do this.

One BIG discovery: Known Issues for Blogger: http://knownissues.blogspot.com/2006/09/microsoft-internet-explorer-6.html

"Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 attempts to download links to site feeds, rather than display them in the browser. You can right click the link to copy the location into your feed reader."

THIS accounts for the fact that when I clicked on subscribe to another blog's posts, that the computer gave me a message saying that it was trying to open or save a file of a type it wasn't sure of. GUESS WHAT though.... in at least one other instance, it happened on Firefox too.

Also, I went to a blog and the only subscribe link was to do it in Bloglines. Well, thought I, this can't be right...one must be able to subscribe no matter what reader one uses. So, I searched for that blog using the search button in Google reader (the image to subscribe on said blog, when right-clicked upon was a .gif image) and was able to do it that way.

So, what I want to do...when I come back to this another day in a more refreshed frame of mind

1. look at the help some more. I saw something about adding something so that your RSS feed would be a regular RSS 2.0 feed rather than an "atom" feed, whatever that is
2. try to figure out where to get a nice RSS button for anyone who wants to subscribe to this blog and just make sure it is easier for someone else to subscribe than it was for me to subscribe to other Blogger blogs.
3. try to figure out more about Google reader and moving around in it. If I can't stand it, I guess I will switch to Bloglines.

While I am ranting, I also am getting overwhelmed by the number of things needing sign-ins and passwords to work in Web 2.0. If my brain stops working, I will never ever be able to log in to my email accounts, open any computer, check voicemail, teach online, you name it. It might be time for me to try to do a count of all my ids, passwords, etc. I do know that I am at TILT and am raving.