ELL activities #10, #11, and #12, about networking, have me thinking about Network the movie. While I appreciate the power of connectors like MySpace, FaceBook, and LinkedIn, I wonder whether, if I start using one of them, I run the risk of flipping out and shouting "I'm connected as hell! And I'm not gonna take it anymore!"
Not sure I want to expand my "community" so drastically. I already feel challenged just keeping up with my non-virtual community -- family, neighbors, friends from old days.
But LibraryThing looks worthwhile, and less likely to be a time-sink.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Image isn't everything
Explored Flickr and YouTube. Gotta improve my skill at skipping past the eye-catching time-wasting stuff.
Easier said than done, given that the internet's basic design encourages bouncing around among mostly unworthy sites and images. See Nicholas Carr's article "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" in the current Atlantic.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google/
Brief mashup comment (added 10/6, re: Thing 8): Marcos Weskamp's "Flickr Graph" caught my eye. But as in so many things web-related it shifts emphasis from the language of relationships to the images of relationships. Tools like Weskamp's are clever and fun, and potentially useful in helping us visualize social links. I just wish they were not beginning to replace (for many folks) thoughtful statements about who people are, and what they mean to us. Like any tool, Weskamp's can be used wisely, or foolishly overused.
Easier said than done, given that the internet's basic design encourages bouncing around among mostly unworthy sites and images. See Nicholas Carr's article "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" in the current Atlantic.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google/
Brief mashup comment (added 10/6, re: Thing 8): Marcos Weskamp's "Flickr Graph" caught my eye. But as in so many things web-related it shifts emphasis from the language of relationships to the images of relationships. Tools like Weskamp's are clever and fun, and potentially useful in helping us visualize social links. I just wish they were not beginning to replace (for many folks) thoughtful statements about who people are, and what they mean to us. Like any tool, Weskamp's can be used wisely, or foolishly overused.
I'm well-fed
My current RSS feeds are from five of my EPL colleagues.
So far I have enjoyed: Rika Ghorbani's image of a birthday party ticket, Dave Jordan's cycling video, Evelyn Kaehler's band references, Heather Norborg's link to a story about endangered languages, and Lesley Williams's entry about breast-feeding and -pumping. (Way to go, Lesley, letting the patron use your own office!)
So far I have enjoyed: Rika Ghorbani's image of a birthday party ticket, Dave Jordan's cycling video, Evelyn Kaehler's band references, Heather Norborg's link to a story about endangered languages, and Lesley Williams's entry about breast-feeding and -pumping. (Way to go, Lesley, letting the patron use your own office!)
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
"May First" painting
My first blog posting praises "May First," an oil-on-canvas work
by Walter Burt Adams, viewable on EPL's fourth floor in the main
administrative office. I like the painting's simplicity, warmth,
asymmetry, and verve -- all qualities I also happen to admire in
my daughter, Maple, born on the first of May, 1999.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/evanstonpubliclibrary/2714017752/
by Walter Burt Adams, viewable on EPL's fourth floor in the main
administrative office. I like the painting's simplicity, warmth,
asymmetry, and verve -- all qualities I also happen to admire in
my daughter, Maple, born on the first of May, 1999.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/evanstonpubliclibrary/2714017752/
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