theanalogdivide » 10 Things http://www.theanalogdivide.com exploring the intersection of libraries, technology, and community Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:15:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Unforseen side effects of social reading http://www.theanalogdivide.com/2008/04/unforseen-side-effects-of-social-reading/ http://www.theanalogdivide.com/2008/04/unforseen-side-effects-of-social-reading/#comments Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:56:07 +0000 theanalogdivide http://theanalogdivide.wordpress.com/?p=33 Many of you out there use one of the social reading/social bookshelf features. Goodreads, Shelfari, and LibraryThing have their positive and negative features. I am currently signed up for Goodreads, mainly due to the fact that a) it’s the one I signed up for first and b) it’s where most of my friends are signed up. Perhaps you’ve had a similar experience. I know another librarian who is signed up for all three, using LibraryThing as her primary site and updating her other accounts at regular intervals. As they say, your mileage may vary.

But I had an experience with Goodreads last night that was totally blogworthy. My hold on Scott Douglas’ Quiet, Please came in yesterday, and like a dutiful little Goodreader I added it to my collection. Not a few hours later I received a friend invite from Scott Douglas, with a message that I enjoyed the book.

I suppose it’s not too uncommon an occurrence in this age of ego feeds, but the immediacy of the response blew my mind. Mr. Douglas, if you’re reading this as well, I look forward to starting your book and I hope more than ever that I enjoy it. Because who knows how awkward that would be if I didn’t.

]]> http://www.theanalogdivide.com/2008/04/unforseen-side-effects-of-social-reading/feed/ 0 On the Nature of Things: An Introduction to Library 2.0 http://www.theanalogdivide.com/2008/03/on-the-nature-of-things-an-introduction-to-library-20/ http://www.theanalogdivide.com/2008/03/on-the-nature-of-things-an-introduction-to-library-20/#comments Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:09:16 +0000 theanalogdivide http://theanalogdivide.wordpress.com/?p=27 I had the distinct pleasure to visit the Glen Ellyn Public Library last Friday to speak about social software during their Staff in-service day. They just began their own Learning 2.0 program, so it was a great opportunity to share the enthusiasm we had at MPOW.

Presentation slides are here. If anyone from Google Docs is reading this, I’d like to reiterate my request to allow users to designate custom colors for link text. This blue just doesn’t cut it with a dark background.

Also, if you can give us an idea as to when you plan to allow YouTube embeds, I think you’d make a lot of people happy, kthxbye.

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