| My new iPod, plus some Web 2.0 links |
[Apr. 7th, 2007|01:55 am] |
I now have an iPod, one of the "50 Best Tech Products of All Time." It took me an hour or two to charge it up (I didn't notice when it finished), 45 minutes to upgrade all the iTunes software and reboot the computer a few times, then JUST SECONDS to transfer a full album plus two songs over to it. Wow! I'm getting psyched to rip all my CDs into MP3s and look online for all my favorite songs that I previously purchased on cassette. Because, face it -- most of the music I have is from the '80s and on cassette tape. The iPod is set for manual sync mode, because I'll mostly be transferring the music to it at home and the podcasts onto it while at work, where I'd already been using iTunes to listen to them.
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The other thing I wanted to post here today is a short series of links about the social networking sites. I haven't read them all in full yet, but they look great and they come from a blog posting that was really interesting, about HOW libraries should use online outposts like those on Facebook and MySpace. A lot of that applies to political parties (why I got interested in these kinds of sites) or anyone trying to do outreach and engage an audience.
Summarizing Facebook Research
http://chimprawk.blogspot.com/2006/04/summarizing-facebook-research.html
Intuitive Revelations: The Ubiquitous Reference Model
http://smartech.gatech.edu/bitstream/1853/8446/3/IntuitiveRevelations.pdf
Friendster lost steam. Is MySpace just a fad?
http://www.danah.org/papers/FriendsterMySpaceEssay.html
Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart MySpace
http://www.danah.org/papers/AAAS2006.html
Long overdue post about library marketing in online communities
http://librarymarketing.blogspot.com/2006/05/long-overdue-post-about-library.html
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Early Sunday AM, I'll be embarking on my first roadtrip with the new iPod. I didn't buy the "car kit" for the iPod, but between my inverter and the headphones, I can get by for now. |
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