Library 2.oh

My thoughts on Library2.0 after having read Icebergs, To a temporary place in time, and the Wikipedia stuff: Thing 15
1 -- we just don't know yet (if it's good, great, horrid, or krapp)
2-- good arguments can be made to support both print collections as well as an entirely virtual collections. Some drivers are happy with any old vehicle while others need high end torque under glossy exteriors. They both get you from Point A to Point B. Who is right, better, smarter, more eco-stinking green? ISN'T THERE ROAD ENOUGH FOR EVERYONE?
3-- There are those persons who are just as happy with a virtual friend as with a flesh-blood-air friend. Imaginary playmates are nothing new. Mental fantasies are faster than any machine, in a race, your thought is always going to outrun the machine.
4--In all this lovely talk we often forget that 90% of the world's population doesn't own a phone; many are hungry, need clean water, medical care, housing, the list is endless. I can't worry overmuch about the techno-starved upper classes when I see human and animal suffering that I can do very little about.

Technorati

Yick! Technorati is people looking at what other people are doing and hoping that someone is looking at what they are doing. This is boring voyeurism combined with mind numbing non-thinking generating more tiresome mental poo.
At this moment 1:05 pm October 17th I can't upload a picture to this blog post.

Delicious

I am falling behind in the 23 Things. It seems I have lots of good company in the tardiness sector at NSU. Delicious has reference potential. On the occasions when several dozen students have the same assignment this would save successive shifts of librarians from re-looking for stuff. Also this list can be shared with circulation because they get the same questions as well. The potential for the federal income tax-time deluge of the repetitive questions, too.