Social networking

Once you've seen one social networking site, you've seen them all. It's nice people have found another way to communicate with each other. I have looked at various sites. These days 'social' seems to be the prefix of choice, put in front of all sorts of words just like e-everything ten years ago. The focus on all things social is akin to bread and circuses. These sites give people the illusion of control over the internet and their own lives and distract people from important politcal issues happening in the real world.

Week 6 (Pointless 2.0)

I didn't think it was possible but these services are more pointless than the last. Personally I wouldn't use deli.cio.us and no I don't think that's a clever name. Question: Why would anyone care about how other people 'tag' things?
Technorati is another service providing unnecessary solutions. Question: Why would anybody want to search for blogs?
Some of the perspectives on library 2.0 were engaging and meaningful, hopefully new technologies won't be thrust into people's faces before they are ready as I feel that would breed resentment.

Guess who?

Guess who? If you've met the someone like this you'll know who I'm talking about because you will never, ever forget. No matter how hard you try.

I prefer to use YouTube to view good quality video, not mediocrity by commoners. I don't know how this could be applied to library websites, any insights I did have would not be used anyway so my thoughts are irrelevant.

I wiki therefore I am

Yes I looked at the library wikis and was very underwhelmed. Yes I edited our library wiki to let the world know that 2 is my favourite number (well not really, it just seemed like the 'correct' thing to say). I'm sure wikis are useful to some people somewhere. However, is this a new idea? After having participated in this activity, it became clear to me where I had seen this before. Wikis are just the internet version of talkback radio where any unqualified pleb can add their two cents about whatever they like regardless of the facts. Yes I am doing the same, but who will stop me? I fear no reprisals as I sully the internet with my inane thoughts. In order to escape it is best to tune out, as most of us do to those talkback radio gurus.

2B or not 2B?

http://rollyo.com/antiblogger/pencils/

Here is the link to my Pencil search engine using Rollyo. The instructions given made absolutely no sense, so here we are.

The Pencil search engine was designed with the discerning pencil consumer in mind. In these times of uncertainty we can now quickly check price movements in the volatile stationery market. We focus mainly on 2B but coverage includes 6B and even mechanical pencils so there should be no more confusion between 0.55 and 0.7mm pencil leads because we have all been there. At this stage the search engine is confined to the small domestic market but we hope to expand this to encompass the international markets in version 2.0. Bigger and better.

Our motto:

The Pencil search engine. Possibly the World's Most Unnecessary Service - until the next one.

Ode to technology

I like computer.
I like computer networks.
I like computer networks because they make life easier.
I like computer networks because they make life easier, although I do worry that they might be infiltrated by a gang of intergalactic criminals for nefarious purposes.
I like computer networks because they make life easier, although I do worry that they might be infiltrated by a gang of intergalactic criminals for nefarious purposes but I like that I can voice my concerns about this on blogger.

Long live blogger, long live the internet.

Coercion is the mark of the civilised enforcer.

Coercive power in its rawest form. Too bad the picture doesn't show up.

In addition some other stuff from another pointless site.

They say a picture paints a thousand words but I have nothing to say about this experience.