really get twitter .
The only person I follow never posts. The person I'd like to follow
protects her updates. So I am alone, and I can't evaluate it really. I
don't want to invite people from my address book. At some point, I
should talk about the connections I've made through
Twitter is kind of like chat, but you can only post 140 characters per post. Some people call it mini-blogging.
I
asked my 21-year old daughter (my ace on the hole in terms of Life 2.0)
about it. She didn't know twitter, asked if it was like
I didn't need to follow. After she'd looked at twitter, she said (and I
have her permission to quote): "It's utterly pointless and a waste of
space."
She also told me that Second Life is stupid and boring. This did make me feel a little less old and stupid.
I've
decided to give Twitter one more try. I looked up the guy whose
presentation I saw at ALA and "followed" him. Then I looked through the
people he follows, and added some more people whose blogs I admire.
However, I am not waiting with bated breath.
Thing 11. I've been using LibraryThing
off and on for a couple of years. I love the idea, but I'm lazy about
entering books. Plus, as a lifelong library user, I don't really like
the way it implies that I own every book I've read. I guess I do in the
sense they become part of my conscious, but then I look atLibraryThing
and realize I don't even remember so many. I did find
good article on social bookmarking and libraries, via
in Black.
Thing 12. I tooled around in rollyo a bit. It is interesting. I didn't create my own searchroll, because my interests are not that eclectic or unique that I need a special search tool. I did like the start-up reference
search roll. I put it in my del.icio.us. I may put it inrefc as well.
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