I didn’t post here this morning because I got caught up writing a post for the other blog. A post on… blogs,of all things. I’ve got to present a training/information session for some of my colleagues, on ‘technology’, and I thought that it might be interesting, instead of just providing handouts, to provide some of the information online. It might also help me to get my thoughts in order and record material (well, drafts) for future articles and presentations. And well, it might also be of interest to others.
The technology I’ve been asked to talk about is basically the technology that is beginning to affect libraries in some way (some more than others). Things like:
- RSS (which I have done to death here I reckon, so no doubt you’ll be glad when I write about it elsewhere!)
- PDAs (and tablet PCs)
- iPods (and other MP3 players)
- podcasting
- wikis
- Web 2.0
- … (I can’t remember what else I said I’d talk about)
It’s going to be interesting to see how much I know and how I’m going to get it down in writing.
I note that quite a few bloggers (Vampire Librarian, Bibliobibuli, gypsyman on blogcritics.org, among others) are taking part in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month!) at the moment. This seems like self-inflicted torture to me, maybe because I am not one of those people who has ever felt they have a novel in them waiting to get out (rather I am on the constant quest for the novel that will speak to me and Resonate in the Deepest Depths of My Soul. Don’t worry, I’ll tell you if and when I ever read it). Instead, I’ll restrict my writing urges practice to writing blog posts.
technorati tags: writing, blogging, blogs, technology, web
Note on Flock: Flock is good to use, but it’s not handling my two Blogger blogs (separate accounts, different user names and passwords) very well, and it’s also a little annoying the way text pasted in to the blogging WYSIWYG editor comes out with some words running into each other. [frown]