// December 14th, 2007 // No Comments » // Libraries, Web Stuff
Week 2: Social Networking and Facebook
Week 3: Photos and Images
Week 4: RSS and Newsreaders
Week 5: Play Week
Week 6: Tagging, Folksonomies and Technorati
Week 7: Wikis
Week 8: Online Applications & Tools
Week 9: Podcasts, Video and Downloadable Audio
Week 10: Play week 2: Mashups
Yay, I’m done!
// December 7th, 2007 // 2 Comments » // Libraries, Web Stuff
In this Learning 2.0 “thing,” we were asked to look at the UCD Library 2 Go blog, which highlights online applications. The “Customize your homepage” entry caught my eye. I recently experimented with NetVibes to collate my social networking “stuff” into one page. I abandoned it pretty quickly, as the tab for meebo had to be over on its own instead of a column on my NetVibes page:
I would love to trade out that flickr section for a small version of my meebo buddy list and movable chat windows–a mini version of the meebo page–but that’s not the way it works, apparently. Too bad.
Another recent online application I’ve used is Picnik. It’s an online image editor that allows you to make changes (like crop, exposure, contrast…) to images that you’ve stored on flickr, Facebook, Photobucket and more. The free set of tools would be sort of limited for someone used to using Photoshop, but for quick fixes, it’s great, and if you’re interested in more flexibility, a premium upgrade is only $24.95 per year.
// December 7th, 2007 // 6 Comments » // Macintosh, Web Stuff
I posted this to the My Music application discussion page on Facebook today:
I had to reinstall the My Music app (which I had uninstalled because it never worked right) in order to click on the “Remove the plug-in” link. It took me to a page, not an uninstaller. Here is the text, so that you, too, don’t have to reinstall the app:
Windows Users
1. Quit iTunes. (Or Windows Media Player)
2. Go to Start > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs
3. Then select the Qloud plug-in and click “remove”.
Mac Users
1. Quit iTunes.
2. Go to your home folder.
3. Select the following: Library/iTunes/iTunes Plug-ins/ and delete the folder called “Qloud Plug-in”.
Noah, it would have been nice of you to reply to this thread with these instructions instead of a link to the app, thereby boosting its statistics…
Noah is (presumably) one of the developers. He had made a snarky reply to someone asking how to uninstall the iTunes plugin.
Dude, if you want people to use your softare, 1) make it easy and 2) be nice!
After spending an hour in the ninth circle of Windows configuration and upgrading hell last night, I have very low tolerance for developer hubris. I know how ironic this is, working in a library, where information products can be counterintuitive at best, totally counterproductive at worst. Yeah, working on that.
</rant>
// May 26th, 2007 // 4 Comments » // Libraries, Web Stuff
I just posted this as a comment in response to a post at Information Wants to be Free. There are some really great, common sense comments.
Speaking as someone who has a smaller blog readership and a shorter speaker resume, social software has provided me with connections to colleagues that I never would have had opportunity or courage to make otherwise. I see Ning, Facebook, Twitter (tumblr, jaiku), and to some extent, flickr, as ways to connect with other librarians more frequently than at conferences. It’s tremendously important for us to connect with each other, for no other reason than we do and care about the same things. It’s vital to feel validated and that you’re going down the right path. I guess *that* is what 2.0 tools and “friendship†with other librarylanders does for me.
I like the concentric circle approach of flickr–someone can be a “contact,†“friend†or “family.†I like being able to limit photos to a certain group of people yet add someone whose images I like as a contact. I do not reciprocate contact adding on flickr if I do not like the person’s images; that’s what flickr is all about. I was a little sensitive about this at first but have grown thicker skin.
Purely communication sites are somewhat a different story. I like the detail request feature of Facebook, though I feel like a prat using it, sometimes. I have added everyone on Facebook who has added me (though I must say some people get “poked†more than others. heh.) I have found a few folks on Facebook through their blogs or other doings in libraryland, but I’m not hurt if they do not add me in return. Disappointed, maybe, but not hurt: Facebook is more personal, I suppose. OTOH, I have immensely enjoyed its silliness and am glad of the connections I’m forging there.
I was excited about Twitter at the outset, until people that I wanted to have tweet conversations with did not add me back–simply because they did not know me and already had dozens of followers, I am sure, though it made me feel rather Stuart Smalley for a while.
LinkedIn is another story; it seems to pivot around actual personal connections, which after being momentarily puzzled by this, makes sense to me. IMHO, it’s trying to remedy this whole issue; the way the site works implies that a “connection†is a “connectionâ€â€“=I would never walk up to Roy Tennant in real life and say, “Hey, you came to my library ten years ago to consult on our nascent digital library! Would you give me a job?†So I can’t do that on LI, either. 
(ftr, I would never do that to anyone who is “only†a web 2.0 connection, either!)
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