Me and Social Media!

Facebook

I personally have a penchant for Facebook because of its streamline features and newsfeeds.
Facebook was an initiative exploited by Mark Zuckerberg; Harvard graduate.

Facebook offers a live social platform in which subscribers can share and receive real-time information about each others lives, as well as IM (instant message) friends, peers or colleagues in a closer friend network.

Conceptually, I think that Facebook is by far a more creative sandbox from which users can add photos/videos, and build up a running theme to display about their lives. This means that Facebook can push society away from the comfort behind the computer to start organizing events and invitations targeted at certain myriad personalities.

Celebrities have also become Facebook literate by being attracted to the implosion of activity it creates. Celebs might feel a duty to Facebook by describing things that have happened recently in proportion to their online fans.       

Apart from individuals' profiles there are groups, and, of course community pages that may or may not be farcical in nature to browse and enjoy.
All this inside those trademark blue and white templates.        

CURRENT AWARENESS

The video on Eli Pariser and "filter bubbles" highlights the automated programs that sift through our personal social media newsfeeds to provide us with ideas or recommendations that we might take a genuine interest in.

The conceptual concern is that even with core search engines such as Google, any two people searching the same link might generate completely different results.

I don't know about you guys but this looks like web babysitting to me! Was never too keen to read George Orwell's 1984, so I don't like conformist ideology of putting all of one's eggs in a single basket!

Bring back links to the Deep Web and watch all controversy in the resource sector implode as we really begin to understand how much information is actually filtered on the net, stuff that may even be attributed to major research in the field of politics or science!          

Podcasts

National Library of Australia

Author Talk with David Astle

David Astle appears in this podcast to delve into riddles of linguistic proportions as he talks about his latest book, Riddledom: 101 Riddles and Their Stories.

The podcast itself can be found in the following link 
https://www.nla.gov.au/audio/author-talk-with-david-astle
 
A podcast is typically something like an mp3 audio file, often part of a series of installments like in an album. Especially today, podcasts can  live-stream cultural events, lectures and talks downloaded through web syndication.     

Wikipedia

 As of current I am not a Wikipedia user nor prescriber.

Personally before coming into regular contact with Wikipedia and using it to form experiences and peer discussion, I would have considered the webpage as good as any physical encyclopedia.

However its poor reliability and heavily saturated information pages leave most Wikipedia users at a loss and filling in massive blanks!

Wikipedia celebrated its 15th birthday this year and sparked a week long global campaign targeting peers in the library, research and cultural sectors. This occurred in thought that Wikipedia could benefit from professional editing in the information world, as it is visited as an open-web source on average 18 billion times a month.

Libraries inwardly see the benefit of using Wikipedia as it has undisputedly the largest casting net among the most eyeballs readily able to view any single page. Wikipedia as a concept uses the same underpinnings that help library foundations across the planet, which basically is that everyone is to have equal access to knowledge.

In summary, it is refreshing and encouraging to see the library initiative with Wikipedia as librarians are tasked for the reason of locating information they simply don't see in plain sight.         

 

Social Networking

The National Library of Australia gives us a classic example of exactly where and how libraries are to employ the use social networking such as Facebook.

 

Understanding the growing urge to combine the various dimensions of library spaces means to create a credible, verified and valid point of electronic contact so the wider world understand the very concept of the library as a modern community learning hub.

 

Canberra's National Library of Australia uses facebook as a canvass to showcase its heritage--and by extension its validity in the bibliographic resource world, as we could use the fact that the information displayed is credible and not hindrance to the conclusion forming in our minds that the library's very origins are rooted in the information sector since its creation.

 

The latter can be good for libraries.

 

Further on this, libraries tend to verify their cause using social media; that information is not seen as a means to an end but rather a collection of self-explicating 'conversations' that in effect add to the possibility, for example, of an artist identifying a reprint imposter work coming from a library/gallery display half way around the world.   

Youtube!

Nancy Pearl: Reading with purpose

Photo sharing and Flickr

Flickr:

The amazing State Library of Queensland has some great photos that give some information about their heritage. Following this is a link to the Illumination opening celebration photostream, where the library group posted images of the preparation, planning and the function itself.

One photo shows the insides of the library glowing with patterns coming from light projection and its three-dimensional reflections. People can also be seen mingling in between different floors or sections of the pure white library to add gravity to its depth and, perhaps, character. 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/slq/

      

Great library blogs investigation

 Librarians at work:

Of the three library blogs listed The librarian in black stands out.


As a rudimentary commentary for this blog, it would have to be that these key elements as seen forming the latter website come together under the presupposition that the information sector is moving more and more into the 'social' cataloguing  ideal.



The creator of the library blog, Sarah Houghton, is the director for the San Rafael Public library in California and a big technology nerd!


Sarah's thirteen years experience as a librarian has given her a rich experience and a comprehensive trail of presentations and classes to tote, spanning all the way back to 1999!


The website has a focus on moving from the concrete organisation structure in light of personal agency, promoting articles that can be honed and applied to information on library web and digital services. Furthermore, I liked the progressive nature of the author and her expressed displeasure of searching through dozens of mindless RSS feeds and other webpages.    


      
      


 

What is Web 2.0?

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 co-exists and intermingles with many of the earlier generation software and information technology items, although new devices and personal integration initiatives with Web 2.0 have supplanted this new motion on another plane.

In so far as one can use and monitor any device on a global scale, Web 2.0 exists as an entity that cuts down on processing time between peer-to-peer contact and information control or management.

The idea is that as we have evolved as an international community and removed boundaries to encourage personal participation and see software in Facebook, for example, as a development in humans' direction in raw language.

 

Examples:

• www.youtube.com is used frequently in libraries to promote research and collaboration.
• Perhaps even the RSS live feeds that syndicate and thread  information and provide up-to-date database access at libraries especially even fall under a web 2.0 banner, considering the criteria? 
• www.facebook.com is a major player in the great "ideas boom" that is turning over a new leaf in idea implementation across our nation. 

       

Introduction to me!!!

Hello Gary!

 

This is a bit about meeeeeee!

Literally though... I was born and raised in Sydney Australia.

My grandparents are cool for moving here!

I went to school in Mascot from years K-6, and then my high school years were spent at a school in Bondi.