Week 8 -Thing 17, Thing 18, and Thing 19

After sitting here and reading these "Things" and thinking to myself....my god, isn't this thing only supposed to take 30 minutes out of the week? I thought about how these ideas can come into play and be good for the library, and then I thought about how disastrous these things are. Then I finally thought about why I don't use them.

In "Thing 17" it talked about the del.icio.us. Its an interesting concept, and I am sure its a handy tool, and the idea of it is handy, yet, its just another account that will get messed in with my whole other lot of accounts that I have: Earthlink, Google, Helios Ro, Gaiaonline, Photobucket, Cut and Paste, Vbgov, ODU, etc.... The idea of having your bookmarks handy is a great idea! But, I've surpassed that, I would think. I'm picky. I will use IE (internet explorer) if its the only thing available, but I prefer Mozilla Firefox, or Apple Safari (which is available for PC).

This being said, as the first thing that is found on the del.icio.us homepage says, "All your Bookmarks in One place," well technically all my bookmarks are in one place.

This is from my portable:

flash drive which I keep on me at all times, and those who know me can vouch for me. Its easier to use what I am familiar and most comfortable with.

The second idea on the del.icio.us front page is sharing my bookmarks with friends. Wow, its great that its somewhat becoming its own social site, but its rather more of a bother. I only physically tell or show my friends sites that I believe are worth showing because normally if its a a site I find interesting it can be complicated, like Gaiaonline. Not so complicated but it takes sometime to get used to.

Then the final idea would be the "see what others are bookmarking" I read enough blogs, comics and other things that I am into so I get my bookmarks from there, I don't need to search through a search engine, because that is all del.icio.us is basically.

Onto "Thing 18"....well technorati is admittingly interesting. It was neat to actually see things in there that pertained to me. But once again, its another thing that I would need to log in to in order to get the full usage of it. Read above about logins. As well, I read enough things that I am into already that if I want to find anything else from there, I will simply go through what I have already and branch out.

"Thing 19" is about the award list. Its interesting, and wow there was something interesting placed up by the VL. Programmable Web is something that I would like to keep up with, thus now it is linked in my blog and I can revisit it when I have more appropriate time. If I am to discuss about about the award list, like the tools and such please just refer to earlier in this blog about del.icio.us or refer to these posts where I speak about Bloglines: Week 4 -- Thing 9 and Week 4 -- Thing 10.


Now off to learn about Sirsi Java. Toodles.