Spoke too Soon Again

In a previous post I lamented that I fell short of the goal, i.e. no Twitter, no MP3 player. After talking to a couple of fellow workers who said I had to do Twitter and finish, I reconsidered my stubborness and did Twitter. I signed up, but still say I have no time for social networking. I have 3 email accounts and now Sharepoint coming up. I think my computer time is pretty well taken up. Also, my job as LA is so social-network-oriented, I don't need any more. But I've been known to eat my words, so I'll keep this short.

AR

Good-bye MP3 Player

I've gotten behind in the program. I finally made a small contribution to the Kingston wiki site, in addition to having taken the picture of our library's location that replaced the old one. No one at our branch set our to work together, but editing the site is open to all, as long as no one does permanent damage, which I unfortunately did at one point. Working on the WIKI is not as easy as it might appear. I think a little more one-on-one training would have helped some of us "get it" a little quicker.
Twitter is where I say good-bye to the incentive that got me this far. It just doesn't inspire me to want to join, which is the assignment. Not that I don't see the point, but there are other ways to achieve the objective. Actually, it's been a while since I've thought about the reward. Although I don't embrace everything we've been introduced to in the KRL 2PT0 experience, the doing and seeing so many of the "assignments" has indeed expanded my cyborizons.
The student site is truly amazing. I viewed NoteCentric, NoteMesh, Digication, and Jobster.
I wish some of these were available when I went to college. Miss a class, but not the notes! A syllabus online. No more going to the bookstore, waiting in line to buy it.
The sun beckons and I must take a walk.

Later,
AR

Never Say Never

With winter here I thought I'd have lots of time to work on 2pt0, but no. It's been very busy. I didn't get around to WIKI, but will catch up later.

It's time to move forward.

Facebook, hum. I heeded all the warnings and decided not to sign up. Meredith Farkas' article was very evenhanded. She did a superb job of presenting the pros and cons. I'm of an age that I prefer my social networking face-to-face and via telephone (and I don't mean texting). Now that I've positioned myself on the chronological map, I do feel that those proficient in communication-in-the-moment technology are the future library users/supporters. If libraries are to play a role in the future it's essential to keep up.

A retraction: A couple of posts ago, I wrote something to the effect that YouTube wasn't for me. Suffice to say, that's no longer true. I recently read Censored 2006 (the top 25 censored stories compiled by Project Censored at Sonoma State.) Several alternative sites were mentioned that I visited on YouTube and I've been back since. Having said that, I have no choice, but to sign off as,

Opinion Tentative and Subject to Change