RSS is great!!

I finaly got the hang of adding some RSS feeds to my blog! Yea!
Once I get into the daily habit, I can see where this is going to be way easier to keep up with all the interesting stuff out there on the WWW. I now have a quick link to get to my favorite columnist and writer, Thomas Friedman. Read him from the NYTimes feed.
Can someone recommend a good feed for book reviews?

Flickr Foes

I've spent some time looking over the Flickr site and perusing the photos from the LOC project. I have to admit I was amazed at the number of images uploaded from LOC and how many "tags" were applied to each. But could I make a contribution to their identification. I don't think so.

Also I am left confused by all the Flickr wanna be sites. My own family has used Picassa, Snapfish, Costco (which I know is not free, but it is cheap) as well as Flickr. So which one do I concentrate on? Is there a place that compares all of these sites and comes up with the easiest?

I did take a photo from my computer and upload it to Flickr, but I haven't shared it with anyone yet. But I can share it here: it includes some of my favorite little people!

New vocabulary

I just learned from an NPR interview that I am a "digital immigrant" as opposed to a "digital native", because I am old enough not to have grown up with computers and the WWW and all our recent technology. To a "native" it's all second nature, but to me, the immigrant, it is learning a whole new language. Well, I was always good at languages!

Diving into Web 2.0

I have swimming on the brain right now, but I finally created my blog. After 2 attempts to watch the "Machine is Us" on too slow library computers, I watched on my home laptop. Most important ideas from the recommended reading were concerning what we need to "rethink": Library 2.0, authenticity or authority of sources. Ultimately none of this will matter if the library doesn't have the hardware fast enough to support it.