Am I wasting my life?

A confluence of circumstances and events has got me to thinking lately about what I do, how I do it, all that good stuff. A summary (and you can almost just skip this part really because it’s just about borderline navel gazing. I put a graph at the end that summarizes the summary) [...]

MeeID

Hi, my name is Sarah and I’m a Web 2.0 addict.
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how to organize my various profiles on Web 2.0 sites. This weekend I’m going to play around and see if I can create some sort of electronic dossier. Until I figure out exactly how I want to [...]

Web 2.0 on Resumes

Hey, I got some reader mail! Letters…I get letters…bags and bags of letters….okay, actually it was just one. But anyway, here’s what they wrote:
Dear Sarah,
D’you mind if I ask you a serious question? (Okay, I just did.)
I’m fairly Web-2.0-literate: I’m on Facebook, I took an I-school class taught partly in Second Life, I [...]

More Chances to Learn Web 2.0 Technology

Hey Blog Reader!  Have you been wanting to learn how you can join the glamorous world of blogging?   Or do you want to learn the difference between a twitter a wiki and a flickr?  Well, you have a couple of chances.
If you are a law librarian, the AALL CS-SIS is running the Web 2.0 Challenge.  [...]

The Problem with Web 2.0

There are dozens, if not hundreds, of Web 2.0 companies.  They all do slightly different things and have varying degrees of usefulness for the library community.  However, there is one thing that they do all have in common: we don’t own them.  As a result, we users are really at the mercy of these companies [...]

Web 2.0 Challenge for Law Librarians

It looks like the CS-SIS of AALL is going to be offering  a Web 2.0 training course July 21 – August 18.   The planned topics are: Blogs & RSS, Wikis, Social Networking Software & Second Life, Flickr & Social Bookmarking Software, and Selling Social Software @ Your Library.   Registration is limited to 90 participants and [...]

The Machine is Us/ing Us

I have twofold purpose in posting this video.  (1) This is a nice introduction to Web 2.0. (2) I want to see how wordpress embeds YouTube videos.