Libraries on Facebook - not?

Guess this librarian doesn't want the libraries to be on Facebook.
This is from her blog:

Alternatively I suppose we could start to desperately flog the profession as: Become a librarian and get paid to play on Facebook!

Librarians in an online social environment flounder somewhere between the devil and the deep blue sea, and I think we’d be better just to swim away.


(‘No Facebook - Blessington St, St Kilda’, from avlxyz’s Flickr photos and reproduced under a Creative Commons License)

Lets go bloghunting!

I have chosen 3 blogs to follow, even though Farkas been mentioned earlier I do mention her again. After been searching around for a while I went to ALA:s homepage. Thought they would have some great stuff about library 2.0 or at least some good blogs. But I was disappointed. There were blogs, but not many wrote about web 2.0 or library 2.0. There probably are many good blogs there though, and they have a nice own kind of RSS-feed that collects all their blogs in one page.

At least I found 2 other blogs that was interesting. First off is ALA Techsource And I found it sad that they don’t blog under ALA:s blog list. But they have some fun new tech-stuff and I love the “fun” angle on library and technology. The other blog is written by a system librarian and assistant professor Aaron, Aaron the librarian. He is fun, and he writes in a really good way that appeals to me.

It seems that many blogs out there are very good written and there are some spirits in them, but the lack of good categories (if any) starts to annoy me a bit. Would be nice if there was a self-tagging program that did all the tagging for the writer and put it in categories for them. Yeye, I know. Who would set the terms for those categories and so on, but it sure would help me stop getting annoyed of lack of taggs ;-)

As a RSS-thingy, I use Google reader. I did use the one in my browser before, but I find it better to have it on the webb.

iCarolines Librarian blogs

After first discovering Librarian Bloggers, I stumbled over the blog:
What I´ve learned today By Nicole C. Engard. It’s a blog about Web 2.0 and programming tips from a library technology enthusiast, wich seems interesting as she reviews the web 2.0 tools.

I will also keep an eye on Jess from Massachusetts and her blog Cool Librarian because she sort of undergoes the frustrations and successes of being a librarian 2.0

Finally a funny one to scout through is Library Revolution, especially Librarians and Technology: minimal competences.

I know we are only supposed to follow/find 3 blogs but this is also great.

Ruths bling bling blond blog.....

To start with I signed up for the RSS feed from the course blog, and then installed igoogle, very smart and very very easy to use.
Then I tried to find three interesting blogs that mention or write about web or library 2.0..and the first blogger I found interesting was a librarian named David Lee King.
Then on my way, came Lauren who is also a librarian, and blogs about different things, among her different post on the blog, there is a lot about web 2. 0.
Finally there is the social networking librarian, Annalaura Brown. Her main interest is library 2.0.
Thats all for now.
Have a great weekend. See you all next friday.

Néné's mixed goodies

I'm your ghost co-student, because I live in England. I've been blogging for years, read it here.

Like Lennart I also use LibraryThing (link to my own page) and StumbleUpon. I use Flickr (again link to my own page) for pictures, Google video for guess what (but might soon change to Vimeo on recommendation of my eldest son who dabbles a lot in video) and Google Docs for writing, saving and sharing documents with other Google users. I use Delicious for my private bookmarks and Connotea for my LIS links. Then there's Netvibes, which I use for easy access to the blogs I follow regularly (RSS). I'm a Wordpress blogger and a Mac-user so I of course peruse all sites with those two names in them (more or less). I'm also on LinkedIn and on FaceBook. Let's connect if you're there too. Please write to me that you're from the Web 2.0 course, since I won't meet you and hence will not know your name.

Here's a useful blog to follow if you're interested in creating stuff on the web (it's in Danish).

I use Firefox for almost all my browsing, but also have Safari installed. Will definitely try out Google's browser Chrome when it becomes available for Mac. All my techie PC friends are crazy about it. My searches are lazily mainly in Google, but when I run into dead ends, I also try Cuil (pronounced cool).

I use lots of dictionaries and other info-sources. There's Merriam-Webster, which is incredibly useful. It will even teach you to pronounce the words so you won't make a fool of yourself when presenting in English. Then there's the Acronym Finder, which is useful in many walks of life. And there are two sites about hoaxes and pranks on the Internet, which I use whenever I have to convince somebody that their chain mail about rewards from Microsoft or whatever is a hoax. It's Break the Chain and Urban Legends. I make a living as a translator, so I subscribe to Ordbogen.dk. It's not perfect, but in combination with my paper dictionaries and M-W, it's very quick and not expensive. I'm a registered user at Wikipedia, which I use a lot. Here's something I've written about that for my previous course with Birger Hjørland.

Many librarians blog. Here are my favourites: Steven's Lighthouse, Phil Bradley, the Blue Skunk Blog and the legendary Mary Ellen Bates. A few other blogs, which point in the general direction of Web 2.0: On Anthropology and Economy in a web-sense, on all things web 2.0 and the Godfather of Web 2.0 Kevin Kelly.

And then there's the best content on the web: TED. (Challenge: spend 3-4 hours there and then point me to another place on the web where you can learn more in such a short time (except maybe for Videojug, but that's more hands on!).

That's all I could think of right now. More will come to mind later...