After that last rant, and upon investigating some engines, I must say the grace of the net is in the spider. I have learned how it creeps, how it crawls, how it enthralls us all. I wake from sleep (yes, often, it's true) to find the nearest pc to search for some gooooooooo

"Hands-off" my partner will say "so I can have some time today" but my hands stay on, and on they will go, like the goooooogle search I do, Oh my and Oh no!

The joy here is great. To find anything you want is good. Sure (a nod to the current project) SOME extra tools, bells and whistles might be good, but like the good ol' card catalog, once you have found it, read it. Too much of this new stuff is just computer geeks taking over. They want to give you a new tool before the old is worn out. (much like we do with furniture here at
Becker)

I am in favor of the spider that crawls in my goooooooo


ANTI-THIS

O.K.-- Her' goes again. I'd really like to get on the bandwagon. I'd really like to 'drink the coolaid' and say that a completely protean library is the best thing for our (what, 'users' , or patrons, or 1980's 'customers' ) but I really don't think so. Does this blackball me? Am I alone? No. There are all of the others who would have come to the library who won't....just because of this (somewhat offputting to anyone born after 1975) technology. Where is the :book: in all of this?? Don't give me the 'we're saving trees' crud.....use of the library before computers compared to now has demonstrably increased the felling of trees. The coal industry alone should kiss all the libraries' asses for the WASTEFUL technology herein touted. End of rant.

I remain yours,

forever anti-this

Hello-

I am anti-this. This is my name. But it is also my creed. Why? A perfect example is this next asssignment; facebook. We are a library. I spent a while on this, and clicked all around. I HAD to sign up, and then looked around. There were lots of people. Lots of girls looking for guys, guys looking for girls, (guys looking for guys) but no libray stuff. I think we don't need this. I am anti-this (myspace) at least for us.

jdbiii

Hello-

Anti-this here again to post so that I can SAY THAT I have posted. Here is an image. http://www.flickr.com/photos/openair/1804743937/

I was talking to a person, here beside me, the way one is SUPPOSED TO communicate, and he was saying how this image is nice, C+, but he could do without the birds. I went to another image, of a beach, and it had birds, and he didn't like that either-- mainly 'cause of the birds!! I like the birds here in this image. I am a photographer myself, and fell that they give you a needed sense of space in this already dreamy image. I also really think most color photos you see are not art; just snapshots. If the image is important, for me, it is in B/W.

I found a 'mash-up' that I like....I found it by looking in FLICKR BITS, which sounds dirty to me. Anyway...http://www.searchcrystal.com/home.html
Here is a great thing. You can search far and wide and get images and more and you can see them in various arrangements. Similar to how Clusty does it's thing. You can just get news, or pics, or just the web. (Again..I don't think we need another gooogle....but ...) Well, this has the idea of HOW the info is presented. And it's new. To me, at least. (that'll wear-off)

http://www.letterjames.com/start.php?mod=image-personalization

This is kinda neat. You can put a message on an egg. A golden egg. This is good....

I am sorry. I can not seem to get the image of the states I have been to to copy here. (Of course I would consider this a fault of the program)

So, then, so you know where I'm comin' from... here's a photo of my main communication device.
http://www.vintagephone.com/HB/AE40.jpg

well, untill next time,

JDBIII