# 16, not MyTube

This is very distracting--there is just so much STUFF out there. I love Conan the Librarian--funny cats--Ninja Librarian, etc. But there is just too much that keeps me away from any kind of focus I manage to wrestle from my days.

I am in the process of chosing ANY video I can get to follow the should-be-simple-oh--gosh, no, that's me...rules included with this THING.This is my only criteria! Sorry but true.

I can see using this for library programs--say, the teen booktalks--and using a quick video or two to engage the audience's attention. But exploring it is more distraction and entertainment than useful.

Thing #15: Merrily we roll along, roll along, etc.

This Thing might be useful for any number of library applications, but with delicious and easily accessible bookmarks anyway, I probably would not use it personally at all.

I can see linking to reference sites, professional organizations, and patron interests with Rollyo.

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Thing #14: Overburdened with simplicity--overorganized?

This was fun to play with--I am not sure why, but something I did a while back landed me with an Igoogle account. After checking out others, I stayed with this as it was simple--and already there. I also liked the ease of manipulating the Google calendar. I hate to go with a "brand", but there it is: the Google products really appeal to me for their user-friendly formats; whatever the tool, this seems to be true.Backpack was WAY too complex for my needs.

I can see us using the Zamzar file transfer tool alot at the library. Folks do work everywhere and come here to print their stuff out. It is heartbreaking to face a kid with a deadline and incompatible files.

Thing #13--Library Thing

This I adore. Booklists, reading groups, interest group lists, all of these could be linked with this tool to users, programmers, outreach staff,etc. and I can think of dozens of uses, both inter-and intra-library districts and systems. For my own purposes, maintaining a personal bibliography is so easy with this. if I wanted to link to others who share my choices , there I'd go, all set. I don't see me doing this; my choices are wildly eclectic, far-ranging, and have little to do with current popularity--but I can see helping a patron follow a set of interests with others' choices in a kind of "through the side door" approach to booksearching for a what-next read. Gotta love it!

Thing #12: Sticky wiki

I really enjoyed exploring the different wikis we could link to from the 23 Things site, because I could see the utility of this pathway to organizational communication as a fluid and very inclusive medium. I still don't think that in a larger context, everyone has equally valid input as a purveyor of information. A contributor's credentials are necessary to my assessment of the weight to give a reference resource in behalf of a patron or for my own purposes. As an in-house, intra- organization communicating tool, a wiki may be a super route to easily navigated, facile negotiations. However, Wikipedia as an encyclopedia for the dissemination of general information to a naive public is maybe not too cool. Of course, I use it almost every day! But not for citations--just quick peeks at a subject to set me on a fresh trail. For that, it works well.

Thing #11: I don't wanna share

I disliked digg, reddit, mixx, and newsvine--I am capable of filtering my own media searches and have enough to do sorting through general author/editorial bias where the source is purported to be accurate and vetted as such. To waste time entertaining "everyone's" opinion seems a squandering of my time beyond anything I'm willing to consider. In addition, Reddit was even offensive in the language allowed--I was beyond annoyed to have been asked to consider this as a legitimate tool for anything but idle braindoodling.

I explored the NYT site, and found articles of interest I might have been willing to share comments about, but was asked to sign in to yet one more site, and this I would not do for a privilege I deem questionable at best. Therefore, I hopped to the G'ville Sun and shared something inane to Delicious, where I am already registered.

I can see no earthly use for social media sites in my job parameters.Not to be negative or anything... O, well!

Thing #10: Strange tastes--delicious to me

I actually loved this exercise, as it gave me a chance to acknowledge and visit my preferred sites. I see that juxtaposed, these may strike someone else as a bit unnerving, but they exactly represent my interests, and I find for the first time during the "23" stuff that this may be extremely useful for my purposes.

For instance, I find that I need to use preschool sites at least weekly to supplement the programs I do for work. Delicious makes it very easy to check my preferred URL's. The other bookmarks make pursuing personal research a breeze and a pleasure, while helping me track others investigating the obscure and/or esoteric subjects I am following. I found the tool easy to use, the directions very clear, and the process blessedly uncomplicated. Yay!