New Quote to go along with last entry.

Reading my bloglines post this morning I came across the following:
A. J. Liebling "Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one."
I thought this went well with the if you don't like the media, become the media idea from the grassroots web site which I forgot the name of but it is mentioned in the preceeding post. Have a good morning. Carol

web 2.0 awards

I spent a lot of time on the web awards page because there was a lot of sites to look at. There seemed to be a lot of redundancy and over-lapping. I was happy to see that a lot of the sites we have been using for this challenge were on the winner list...Meebo, Bloglines, writely, & flickr and an honorable mention for Librarything. Cool, we are on the cutting edge. I put a bunch of the most interesting on my delicious site so I could go back to them and explore them. I really liked Craig's list because you can go to any city and find out what is going on there. I also liked Avvenu.com because it will allow you to access your home computer from a different one somewhere else. I did the download on that but got to thinking about how I really didn't have that much stuff going on on my computer at home and that it may be a security risk...even though with it being a web 2.0 award winner you would think they had checked out all the kinks in the programs and that they would be safe. I liked the idea of the grassroots honorable mention Knowmore.org a web based community dedicated to chronicling and resisting...corporate, environmental, human rights abuses. The kind of thing the web 2.0 would be it's highest calling. The caption on a photo says it all..."Don't complain about the media; become the media."

Search Engines

Your Task: Explore one or both of the above search engine sites. Which Search Engine do you use? Did either of these sites prompt you to change the search engine you use most often? Respond in a post on your blog.

I studied the sites, and explored the search engines. I was impressed with ask.com but didn't really see that much difference between that and google. I will probably use ask.com more now though because I was impressed with the results I got when I typed in "stem cell transplant". I added it to my delicious acct

Hope everyone has a great Christmas! Carol

IM thing

I talked to Emily about a 1/2 dozen lines tonight trying to get this thing figured out. I think there is a learning curve to this and one of these days I will look back on this post and wonder how stupid can you get! She's ignoring me or hiding from me or has just plain old given up on me. Life at the library was really different for a Monday today. There was no mass confusion and grinding of teeth at 3:15 like usual. S. was there and someone complained about the site he had on the screen but what can you say to a kid who has sort of frisky pictures on the screen but they are all cartoons? I just told his that another patron had complained and he knew that that was all that was needed for him to keep that off the screen. He is pretty accomodating about this stuff. Other boys would protest if the eyes (or main hardware) were blacked out. "what's wrong with that?" Good day though. Emily and I are having a conversation on another screen. It beeps at me when she has typed something for me to see. I want all you people to get this and we can just do our staff meetings from home in our p.j.s. OK!?

OK. Now I'm signed in. Now what.

Ok, I went to Meebo.com and signed in so my widget says I'm online. Who am I supposed to talk to with this thing? Who else is online and how do I know if they are or not? I suppose I will have to go collect everyone's online widget name thing and add them to yet another list so I can see when they are online. I think I have more to learn about this and I'm signing off now because there isn't anyone to talk to anyway.

I don't get it.

OK, I signed up for the meeb thing and got the widget but I don't know how to turn it on. It says I am offline which is obviously not true because here I am...on-line. I'm missing something. I loved the Time magazine article though, thanks for showing us that Emily.

My delicious link

Hi folks, here is the link to carol's del.icio.us link I haven't put anything in it yet but I will gather some stuff for you to look at. I'm thinking this is a little redundant but Emily assures me it is well worth the effort.