I signed up for Second Life this morning. (Hi Group!). My name is Aletea Szondi. I couldn’t help but think of this cautionary advice, though.
I have been using my RSS aggregator, but so far, I’m lukewarm on it. I think that I might be too set in my ways—I have my “check-thrice-daily” favourites, my “work-downtime-appropriate” favourites, my “check once every Sunday” favourites and my “browse occasionally if bored or procrastinating” favourites (to name only a few). My test case for the RSS aggregator was Slate: an online new magazine that updates quite frequently, and made a big deal about its RSS feed. Unfortunately, this meant that in two days, forty- eight items were in my Google Reader account—forty-eight items which I would have filtered through on my thrice-a-day-four-if-it’s-a-slow-day-at-work-pass. The goal for this week is to try subscribing to the things in my “check once or twice a month” category.
Anything tagged by “Jiptonia” on del.cioi.us is actually me. “Leah” wasn’t available.
I haven’t been tagging very much on del.cioi.us, for myself or for the class, but I can see a lot of potential for library use. It seems like it could very easily adopted for lot of library purposes, from the academic subject librarian tagging news articles and blogs about obscure topics, to the special librarian (or Information Services Superhero) placing it on an intranet and using to share tasks like media monitoring or competitive intelligence.
I am enjoying readings your posts very much—I promise to comment more this week (which should be less crazy than last week.)
Monday, May 21, 2007
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*amused at the cautionary advice's note that "Your patrons don't want to be friends with you in real life, so it's not likely that they'll be interested in hanging out with your avatar."* Heh. Point. :)
My Second Life name is Anastasia March, but you won't find me on there. I did try it out a while back, but it crashes every so often on my Mac *wrinkles nose* - apparently turning the graphics settings down helps with this, but I didn't bother...I can see the appeal of SL, but, um. I have a first life. ;)
I love RSS, but I don't think it's that useful for news sites - more for blogs (esp. ones that post irregularly, so going there often is...unrewarding).
My first attempt at RSS was for this class and I have to say that I am very impressed!! It's great not having to log onto everyone's individual blogs to read/determine if there are any new posts. One thing that I would like; however, would be for the blog post comments to appear in the RSS feeds. Since they do not, I find myself still having to go into each blog to check.
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