Twitter CPL 2.0

I find twitter kind of weird, like coming in on the middle of a conversation.

• Love the xianity site - crazy funny stuff there.
• News sites - Either I need more info to understand what they are talking about, or I need it presented by someone without ADHD.
• CPL teen twitter links - The Zombie Research Society brings out my inner geek, and I have learned that hitting Superman with a red light saber is akin to hitting a human with a wet noodle.

The CPL tweets are perfect. I can scan down the list to see what's happening, then open the one I am interested in. This cuts down on the info overload that I have been complaining about from the other sites that we have visited during these exercises.

Library Thing CPL 2.0

Practical uses at work:

• finding book reviews for customers
• separating moldy oldies from classics in the making

Practical uses at home:

• keep track of my voracious reading list
• find recommendations

Chances are I won't sign up for it. I already have trouble taking too many books with me when I finish my shift. I also find the site to be too busy. I wish designers consider putting more white space on their pages to make the pages more readable.

On Line Productivity Tools CPL 2.0

I checked out Google docs and tried it out. It behaves like Microsoft, ergo I can see it becoming more popular simply because you don't have to pay for it. But there will always be hackers, and I am sure they are working hard on getting into online documents. The calendar looks good too.

Chances are I won't use this product. I'm still ingrained in the past - paper, pens, writing on my WWF calendar (this month is Japanese Macaques in a natural spa), and my yellowberry (sticky notes with names and phone numbers).

Pros:

• work from any computer
• Share to whatever extent I feel comfortable

Cons:

• Every time I clicked to go to a new page, I was in a new window. When I logged out, I had several windows to sign out of
• I am not comfortable sharing too much

Flickr & YouTube CPL 2.0

Flickr: interesting, could be useful, seems pretty straight forward. Maybe this will help me shed a few pounds before the Christmas card season.

YouTube: a lot of fun, but a real time waster

Here is my fave:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTUNByTIZ70&feature=related

RSS Feeds CPL 2.0

I like RSS feeds.

I signed up on my account two weeks ago and when I looked in today, poof there were more postings about things I actually wanted to read about. For example, I think may want to check out A Librarian's Guide to Ettiquette on a regular basis. I also quite enjoy PostSecret (not that I have anything on there!!).

The only thing we noticed is that you must sign out or the next time it will open in your account.

Google Universe CPL 2.0

I had no idea that Google was so massive, hence "Universe." I have used Google Earth to look at properties and just googled for general info - it's great for crosswords and trivia - and I've used all the top tabs. In looking under "more," I see that I can obtain information by using specific searches.

As for their products, there's a lot of downloading to do if you want to use them. Problems can occur when your computer can't hold and run it all.

I would recommend Google Universe to others, simply for the range of options.

Social Networking CPL 2.0

I have a love-hate relationship with Facebook. Where to start? (sound of finger joints cracking)

I like to look at how everyone is doing, i.e. the people that I know, but I don't want to be friends or share my privacy with a whole bunch of people that I don't know just because they know someone, who knows someone - unless maybe it's Keanu Reeves or one of the Fiennes brothers (God, how old am I?!).

We were just going through Facebook, helping another person get into it, and it is impossible to sort through all of the postings that everyone in the entire world has left on the site. I realized that I didn't even leave a message on the library wall, but even if I did, no one would see the tree for the forest. (I will go and do one now.)

Postsecret: I am a "bad" friend because I spend a lot of time on the computer at both my jobs and in my class. Ergo, I don't want to spend any more time on the computer when I am off regardless of who tries to e-connect with me...