Thing 1,2,3,4

#1 is really a non-step as far as I can tell.

"Lifelong learning" seems to be an exercise in common sense to me. If there's no end in mind, you will meander and become bored. Then you drop it because it's become pointless. Accept responsibility because otherwise you won't do anything. Problems as challenges means you won't give up at the first sign of trouble. Confidence echoes #3. A learning toolbox echoes #3 again. Use technology is an echo of #5. And teaching others is the best way to solidify the information in your own mind. Play just means do it. So really you have what, 5 steps. And really, if any of them are a newsflash to you, you should probably stop sniffing glue.

Step 3 is easy and a good step, but probably should have been step 1.

Step 4 is good. But the mistake that was made was in assuming people would be able to use the access database correctly. There's a whole field in software development that addresses this problem. It's referred to as "usability." What's really needed is a front end application probably written in visual basic to let people enter things into the database. But that would be too easy.

Soooo.....

I find out after I did them all that we're not doing the 23 things that the other library did. D'oh. Well, I guess I start over and try to be first to finish again....

Finito

Ok, so I'm kinda mashing the remaining steps together. I've used wiki's before. I've used YouTube before. I've used NetLibrary before. The web 2.0 awards was nice to see, and had some interesting sites.

As for the program.

It's overdue, and it ought to be mandatory. It took 2 days for me to do this, and I still fulfilled all my full time duties. I worked the desk, did my work room jobs, and had meals, and still did this in 2 days. Oh, and I don't have internet at home yet, so I had to do it all in the time I was at work. That's not long. And you need the technophobes to do this stuff too. There are enough savvy people sprinkled around to hold hands and walk people through it. I've been asked to do that very thing for anyone here who asks. And I'm happy to do it. People need to know about these things and how to use them. I already knew most. Everyone has to graduate to the modern times. Like I've said many times, this program is about catching up with the nineties. That's when most of this started happening. Yeah, the websites are new, but the ideas and technologies are old.

Online software

Also not new. I can't remember the guy's name, but the guy who heads the Xbox division at Microsoft told Gates himself that Microsoft needed to "webify" their applications. That was like five years ago. And Google bought writer a long time ago because it caught on so well. They eliminate the need to have the software loaded on your pc and you can get to them anywhere. Plus you can collaborate. It beats the old software arrangement in several ways. That's why Google is buying up these online systems. They're trying to pull the best of the web together.

Library 2.0

It's not like no one has used these technologies before. There are certainly a lot of people who have. And they may feel that the 2.0 thing is BS or whatever, and that's fine. What's not ok is ignoring the trend that has led so many more people on-line. The time has come for official endorsement of these technologies as necessary knowledge for anyone serving the public. Libraries included. These technologies are old. The fact that just now someone has decided we need to know about them is great but very, very late. Technology is where society is going. Libraries will have to follow.

Rollyo

It's kinda neat, but again, kinda pointless. You can google anything and get the same results.

Library Thing

It's interesting. And probably useful for people who have trouble remembering what they have, or what they ought to read. But I have neither problem, so it seems unneccesary to me.

The create account thing also needs work from a usability standpoint. It's not clear that if you type in a new name/pwd it'll create an account. And if you type quickly like I do you might create a bunch of accounts unnecesarily

Thrilling

Another thrilling victory in the war on "The 23 Things." I have set up my bloglines news reader account. Buwaahahahahahah....

Technology thingy

It's not the newest technology out there, but there is a new way of building processors that will soon, hopefully, replace the current transistor system. It's a molecule that replicates transistor behavior, but because it's so small the size of the entire processor (with the same power as a current high end supercomputer) would be the size of a single bacterium. So you could theoretically hold more processing power in the palm of your hand than all the supercomputers in the world put together. At least, that was the case when I heard about this. Pretty cool.

Poor me.

Blogger ate my first blog....and there was much rejoicing.

Here I am again patting myself on the back. Phase 3 re-completed. On to the more insidious phases of my master plan (a.k.a. the steps someone else posted on a web page....)