Thing 4

Well, that was fascinating! I could never make Bloglines work after multiple attempts and Google seemed to be able to put my blog on the screen well enough. Since AT&T forced me to "upgrade" my service after holding my e-mail hostage, I am fearful of having anything sent to my e-mail address automatically. I think I understand the concept of RSS well enough but I'm going to hold off for a while. I think I'll go on to Thing 5 until someone who is much wiser and younger can help me with RSS.

Thing 3

Well, I have now learned not to log into the library blog instead of mine. I'm still figuring out how to log into my blog. On to Thing 3. Talk about being a small dot in the cosmos! I had no idea there were that many search engine options out there. Since I'm really leery about downloading thing on my computer, I skipped the sites that required downloads. All I had to do to find sites of interest in anything was to go to Google or Yahoo and list a word and blog and there were an almost infinite number of sites. Wikipedia gave me a lot of information, most of which is still mind-boggling to me. I had to be careful at some of the blog sites that I didn't spend the day looking up things that interest me. I think I can now navigate the Internet adequately to find all the news sources I need or want (but don't need).

Thing 2

The third time is the charm, so they say. This is my third attempt to post this in the right place. Being semi-retired and remembering those beautiful oak card files, I have slowly adjusted to computers and other new gadgets. I didn't get a cell phone until last year.
I think that Web 1.0 and Library 1.0 are what we are doing now in the library. I naively assumed that libraries were already coordinating efforts to share software, technical stuff,etc. I hadn't thought about the software developers being unwilling to allow different entities to share although it makes good business sense. I'm glad there are people out ther trying to set this up since the way are doing business now in the libraries will soon go the way of those wonderful oak boxes. Although all those neat things the tweens, teens and "millenials" are doing now are fascinating, they still scare me. However, this is the 21st century so I guess I'll give it a try.
The main problem I had in researching these topics was the use of acronyms in the articles with no translation into English. Fortunately, Google and Wikipedia (and their "ilk" as one poster put it) were willing to explain those cute little capital letters to me.
There is an ancient Chinese curse that says, "May you live in interesting time." This has indeed been interesting.

Thing 1

Well, this is interesting. I've been following the directions but I still don't know what I'm doing. I've been assured that it is not illegal and I will benefit from all the new knowledge I am gaining. It seemed a little odd that I couldn't watch the streaming video on the high speed computer at the library but I could watch it without loading breaks on my little computer at home. I've started reading about Web 2.0 and Library 2.0 but it will probably take me a while to figure all this out. If I get too confused, I'll ask a nice, young librarian to explain it. If that doesn't work, I'll find a 10-year old.