Wikininnie

Since i have been geeking out tremendously on harps lately, I found an article that suited me just fine. Camac Harps, a French company that is an innovator in electric harp technology had a small entry, to which i added a few things; the name of innovative company helmsman Jakez François, and the fact that in addition to the electric, they are also working on midi Version of thier now famous "blue" harp.

Needle in a Haystack

Delicious is a good tool for keeping track of useful websites, we use the CPL Best Websites frequently at the 3rd floor reference desk. There are may ways to make Delicious work, the options may be a little daunting, I personally feel the most important factor is if the chosen sites are tagged and titled appropriately. In terms of applying that for personal use there are a lot of options about how you organize the information, which should leave you free to choose the one that works best for you.

Being a visual person i have found Delicious harder to get used to that i expected, and was not initially aware that the main search option is for Delicious in its entirety, not necessarily for the CPLs collection of links. Searching by tag is also cumulative, so if you don't find anything by tag you need to remove it before you type a new search option in. Because I use it often I am now much more comfortable with it and can usually find what i am looking for quickly.

The Medium is the message.....

The 2.0 Internet is like a sponge, it absorbs everything, an endless warren of information. There is a part of me irked by the constant barrage of information being transferred. I think it has been embraced by many as a form for a kind of imagined celebrity where everyone can be a star with their own advertisements via Facebook, Blogger and the like.

While the Internet is a fascinating and very useful tool it is decidedly impersonal, for me an email will never replace a hand written letter, although increasingly they do. I fear the ever-available format of the Internet with its plethora of fictions and facts creates a disinclination to reflect on any one thing, i feel this may be detrimental to the human spirit in some way. I would guess that anyone with a passing knowledge of the 2.0 phenomena would agree that it has fundamentally rearranged the way we perceive the keeping and interpretation of knowledge.

Paradoxically, i am and have been a regular and somewhat obsessive Internet user, and belonged to some of the earliest social networking sites ( Friendster, CBC's ZEdtv site). There is great opportunity and choice in the interactive nature of the Internet, but there is still a great deal to learn about how to look for it, and what forms of older technology it is suitable to replace.