California libraries 23 things

I am so glad that Infopeople is hosting a Learning 2.0 23 things project. I look forward to working with others in my library in exploring web 2.0 technologies.

I've been playing for awhile but know that there is much more to discover.

One of the first tasks before getting to number 1 is to view the archive of Helene Blower's webcast. Though I watched the webcast live, I went to the arcive to see if our staff might have problems. I was able to view the webcast. I had major problems running the Wizard which checks to see if the PC can run the webcast. On three different PC's, running Windows 2000 and Windows XP and IE 6, both SP1 and SP2 the wizard crashed IE each and every time. I don't know if this is a local problem with our staff PC's or a problem with the wizard. If I have a chance I'll try the wizard from home on my PC running Vista and IE7.

Blogger down when I'm primed to post

Wouldn't you know it, the Infopeople Web2.0 online workshop starts, our first assignment is to create a blog on blogger and blogger was down.

For a blog to bring me back it has to be updated regularly and with interesting content.

Of the sample blogs to view in Week 1, exercise 1, I most liked the Waterboro Public Library blog. Cute name, clean look.

I've mixed thoughts on the Thomas Ford Memorial Library Western Springs History Blog. Seems like an interesting implementation of a blog, kind of a photograph album. It's cool that current and former occupants of the houses have contributed information through comments but I'm concerned about privacy issues and identity theft. Maybe names of current occupants should be redacted?