So here I am, better late than never, blogging away on a beautiful Sunday.
Talk about information overload! First, I created a bloglines account. Very easy. Next, I needed to decide what blogs to add. Okay, let's begin with adding blogs from various people in our web course. Great! That saves me the time of clicking on each blog to see what people are doing. Or, have I simply shifted WHERE I click? A least I can see at a glance if there have been any current updates so that saves me the time spent in needless clicking only to find that there has been no change since the last time I looked at someone's blog. Like all of you who have subscribed to my blog and are wondering where the heck I've been and why haven't I completed this week's assignment. Ah well, life intervenes; it's been an incredibly busy week.
Next step...check out all of those tools. Yvonne was right - topixnet is too much info with too little Canadian content. Feedster seemed to have a download problem on my home computer vis a vis taking too much time so like a child with a short attention span I gave up and clicked elsewhere. With regards to Syndic8 I hated the interface - very poorly designed in terms of graphics, organization, and use of space. The bloglines search tool was great and opened up a whole new realm of information tracking. So much information and so little time to digest it all...
Feeling overwhelmed with the Information Highway, I am now going to clear my head by travelling down a different kind of highway; this time on my Harley.
Putting RSS feeds on online catalogues would be great for library patrons to track new additions to our collections.
And for anyone who is concerned with copyright laws in Canada, please check out Michael Geist's blog. Great insight as well as a great activist, especially in the area of DRM (Digital Rights Management).
It still feels like I'm being overloaded with information. At least now, its nicely organized...
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I empathize that this course is a heavy workload, especially because so many of you are doing this on your own personal time. But trust me, you are absorbing far more information than you realize and now when patrons, kids, friends talk about these tools you'll be able to say, "hey I used that!".
Jenny.
Hi Jenn,
The information in this course is absolutely the right amount. It's not too in-depth nor is it too light. In fact, I am really enjoying everything that we've done so far.
But after this last assignment with feeds, I see how a person can spend even more time on the Internet as new vistas of information tracking and gathering are now at our finger-tips.
Ironically, by being easier to use (and therefore less time-consuming) these information gathering tools actually - for me at least - seem to encourage even more time spent in front of the computer gathering more information.
You may feel flattened, but you've done a great job at redesiging your site. Very nice!
YZ
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