Web 2.0 is like the Mafia…

…just when you think you’re done with it, it pulls you back in.
As I’ve mentioned, I’ve recently switched up job duties and am now in charge of my library’s Interlibrary Loan department.  (And by “in charge” and “department”, I mean I do everything.)  So I thought I wouldn’t have time anymore to reallly think about [...]

Law Libraries and Librarians ning

From the e-mail announcement:
Announcing Law Libraries and Librarians (http://lawlibraries.ning.com): a social networking site for law librarians interested in social networking
Do you blog or podcast?  Twitter or Gtalk or AIM?  Ning or Wiki? Flickr or del.icio.us or ooVoo or Seesmic or Utterz or Ustream?  Want to find out more from other law librarians who use social [...]

Weird Social Networking Experience

Lately I’ve been drifting out of library science literature and reading more-ACM type literature to get a different perspective on the whole social networking thing.  One point that has been brought up several times in discussing the difference between Facebook and MySpace is that Facebook, with its networks based on educational or professional affiliations, is [...]

55 Alive

I don’t know why I’m so obsessed with signing my mother up for social networking services, especially in light of our disastrous MySpace experiment.  And yet I persist.  Today I found one that she may like….55 Alive, a social networking site aimed at the older population.   It features many of the same features that one [...]

Facebook Pages Update 2

When I sing the praises of Facebook to, well, seemingly everyone I talk to lately, I mention how it has made it easy for me to stay in touch with friends that live on the other side of the country, reunite with long lost friends and learn humility at the hands of Scrabulous. [...]

When Blog Posts Collide

Oh, Gentle Reader, it’s amazing how fast things move in this crazy Web 2.0 world.
It was just two days ago that I was thrilled to be Facebook friends with Kevin Smith.   And then this morning I completely geeked out over Facebook Pages.   This afternoon Kevin Smith found that, while a celebrity can have an individual [...]

Facebook Upgrade

Remember a few days ago when I was talking about Facebook vs. Myspace and I said that it would be really great if Facebook allowed organizations like libraries to have a profile instead of just a group?  Well, guess what?  Today Facebook announced Facebook Pages which is going to allow just that.    I was so [...]

The Day I Signed my Mother up for MySpace

Alternative title to this post: “Only freaks put pictures of themselves on the Internet”
About two months after I started experimenting with MySpace, I had the grand idea of signing my 61 year old mother up for a profile.  It seemed to make sense…she’s a public health nurse that teaches sexual health and parenting classes at [...]

I’m Friends with Silent Bob

Today is a good day in my Facebook life…I am now friends with Kevin “Silent Bob” Smith. I’m also MySpace Friends with him, so we do have a prior relationship.
I actually have been trying to keep my Facebook “friends” limited to people I really do know in real life. However, I made an [...]

NaBloPoMo

Finally! An alternative for those who don’t wish to tackle the NaNoWriMo challenge: National Blog Posting Month. That I can do.
I signed up with the thought that at the very least this will be a good incentive to keep this blog rolling through that difficult “the novelty done wore off” period that happens [...]