Week 3: Flickr phun

Time is flowing oddly these days, but sometime in the last couple weeks we had a baby shower here at the library for one of our children's librarians. This fabulous diaper cake was one of our centerpieces. Exactly the kind of image that should be shared with the world, no?

Regarding Flickr - I realize that everything is owned by someone, and usually one of the big kids, but come on, how many email and user accounts do I have to subscribe to before I am a social, savvy being?

Flickr is an interesting medium for sharing. Like many other sites and activities it is easy to get sucked into --I just spent 10 minutes watching stpiduko's "People I Asked" http://www.flickr.com/photos/eamon/sets/72157594526998899/ it's an amazing collection of photographs of people far and wide, strange and not so strange. But really, was it worth 20 minutes (yeah, I got sucked in again) of my life? Sure --this woman's tattoo is amazing! I'm really more voyeur than social networker - I have no desire to tell stpiduko how fabulous he is (surely he's heard that by now) so I'm not really being social am I? To loosely refer to John Bender - where do the lines fall between demented, sad and social?

P.S. My attempts to post Flickr images with the URL option were wholly unsuccessful... so much for technically savvy.

Nifty Widgets

I was searching the web for a better template for my blog, and found a Soduku widget instead. amazing what folks have put time into...

Week 1: 7 1/2 Habits

#1 Begin with an end in mind

I tend to learn for the sake of – without a goal firmly in mind. I also tend to change directions often enough that where I end up is not where I thought I might be when I started. This is generally not a problem in terms of learning, but it does make me feel a bit scattered from time to time. (yeah, I've studied greek, latin, and french and not learned any of them with any degree of mastery...) So we're going to say that this "habit" might be a challenge for me.

Hence the saving grace of making the goal very general - I will endeavor to learn all of the web 2.0 tools that I don't currently have in my toolbox. There! That's an achievable end goal...

I think I do pretty well with the other habits of lifelong learners: I like to play, I view problems as challenges (after a modicum of whining and complaining), I enjoy expanding my learning toolbox and sharing the tools with others. As per my confessions about seldom acheiving complete mastery from #1, I will say that I could be a little less hard on myself (habit #4 - confidence in self as a competent effective learner) but perfectionism is a cross I must bear.

What is it about blogs that makes so many of us share inordinate quantities and levels of information with the world???