Week 7 #17

Well I left a comment on Janet's blog and Nancy's blog. They have the funniest pictures. I tried to leave one on Naomi's but I had a temporary brain fart and was trying to login with my yahoo! account instead of my blogger account. Oh well, she'll survive.

On to technology. Technology is the downfall of my generation. Of course its great that we can get these complex things done efficiently, carry the entire internet in our pocket, chat and play with people halfway across the globe, etc. My generation is lacking, however. It is lacking in experience with delayed gratification. I am so used to being able to get what I want when I want it that when someone tells me I have to actually wait for something, I get confused. What is this? Wait? Huh? That's for the 1990's when we had 56k modems and the internet was billed by the hour (do you remember that? I wonder when cell phone companies will give up this minute business and give a flat fee).

Week 7 #16

I added my blog to the favorite blogs on the ihcpl wiki. I actually use Wikipedia regularly. I discovered it when I was watching the library's copy of "Freaks and Geeks the Complete Series" and recognized actors, but didn't know where I recognized them from. I typed their names into Google and out came their Wikipedia articles. It turns out that brown-haired teenage misfit Lindsay went on to play Sam on NBC's ER.

This is how I want wikis to play a part in libraries. From time to time I have a customer that comes up to me and says, "I'm looking for a movie. It has so-and-so in it." Sometimes the catalog will be helpful in this situation, but what would really be helpful is some sort of database, that has all the movies and the plots, directors, producers, actors, soundtrack...just like when I wanted to know who was on Freaks and Geeks. In this case, tags would be helpful to use in searching for the correct article. For example if you typed in "arabian princess" and "lamp", you would get "Aladdin".