Thing 6!!!

THING "LIBRARIAN": A Must See

This film gives an interesting glimpse into the pre-1.0 era. This is a "must see" for all library staff!

Follow the link and be enlightened.

http://www.archive.org/details/Libraria1947

Thing Eight

THING SEVEN: IMAGE GENERATION AGAIN

Here's some more Lettter James fun...with an important message.

THING SEVEN: IMAGE GENERATION

I like Letter James. Its fun! .

This image is just one of many different formats to display your personal message.

Here's the link.

http://www.letterjames.com/start.php?mod=image-personalization

NUMBER SIX: Spell with Flickr Ate My Brain!!

I have, as well as some of my 23 Things comrades, been frustrated by the inability to move the images from the Spell with Flickr site to our blog sites.

I wish that in the spirit of Web 2.0 we had a central blog, available to all participants, on which we could share tips and perhaps receive advice from our 23 Things, Web 2.0 peers. Alas, we spend time emailing each other about our difficulties rather than being able to tap into the enormous community of talent involved in this project.

It all seems very 1.0.

THING TWO II: slight return

Web 2.0 technology not only bridges spatial and conceptual distances, but allows intellectual communities to access past records of creation and design. The capacity for storing knowledge that can be drawn upon by future innovators and creative communities allows for a bridging of temporal distance as well. Imagine if we had access, now, to the creative processes involved in building the pyramids or the many developments of ancient Rome.

THING SIX: Picasa

Picasa is a site which allows one to edit, organize, and save photos and photo collections. Here is the photo below after the color has been "saturated"

THING FIVE: Flickr

Here's a photo of a lake in north Georgia that my family likes to visit. I found the photo on Flickr.

THING FOUR: Serendipity

Speardiver at Spear23nights made a nice point about RSS feeds possibly limiting the area one might cover on the internet. Speardiver asks, " Will we become narrow in our focus and forget to look at a greater variety of websites?"

The point is that while providing easy, speedy access to familiar sites, these feeds may inadvertently limit the potential browser to sites which have an appeal based on familiarity.

There is a value to the serendipitous experience; the accidental stumbling upon something heretofore unknown.

Don't let your feeds lead to a malnourished mind.

THING THREE: Too Many Blogs

The unfettered proliferation of blog sites mirrors the exponential growth of the internet as a whole. There is so much information that it is difficult to locate the info one wants.

Likewise there are so many blog sites that it might be difficult to find those which pertain to one's particular interests. There is a lot of sifting through data to find that which is relevant.

If a blog is a stump from which one may speak, then what we have have now is a field of stumps and many speakers and an echoing babel.

This proliferation of blog sites has given rise to a rapid growth in the number of blog directories. No doubt, there is a resource for assessing which blog directories are best.

THING TWO: Web 2.0: Et cum spiritu 2.0

Web 2.0, as an idea, emphasizes the sharing of information and the formation of internet communities which can bring once disparate intellectual communities together by bridging both spatial and conceptual distances.

Information visionary, Gerhard Fischer, believes that the use of new technologies to create information sharing collectives will create a climate in which social creativity flourishes.

Gerhard Fischer say that, "Creativity does not occur in an isolated mind, but through exchange and interaction . Social Creativity is the result of exchange between individuals."

Hopefully this spirit of creativity will manifest itself via the concept of Web 2.0

Thing 1 :Second time around

I am beginning my blog again. Blogger/Google ate my original blog, so I am starting again.

I had gotten to Thing 6.

So, somehow I'll have to say everything again. The fella in the picture is Jimmy Two Times, from Martin Scorcese's movie Goodfellas. Everything he said, he said twice. My patron fella.

Evidently I fell prey to Blogger's spam detectors. There is page which explains that sometimes the spam detectors get a false positive, and delete a valid blog (such as mine.) In this event, the deleted blog's author can take solace in this support page "help."

"Because this system is automated there will necessarily be some false positives, though we're continually working on improving our algorithms to avoid these. If your blog is not a spam blog, then it was one of the false positives, and we apologize."

The apology certainly seems earnest to me.