dillon's blog

Well, the 14 weeks have flown by in a hurry. I've taken a lot of distance courses during my time at FIMS, and this has been the best in terms of feeling very interactive. I think Amanda deserves credit for choosing to go with Drupal, rather than WebCT or one of those other clunky online course providers. The library I'm working at now will probably be moving our site to Drupal in the near future, so it's been beneficial to make extensive use of a Drupa site, and get a feel for what it can do. I also love that I've been able to keep track of new posts through RSS.

Here, at long last are some of my thoughts on best practices for social software in libraries.

To begin with, please find the links to all of our various shared media on this Wiki. (code word: social)

The realm of media sharing is so large, and the possibilities so great,
it would be impossible to do it justice in a single week. After all, the
Internet, even the old text-based, Web 1.0 Internet, was about media
sharing (mostly in the form of text). With the advent of sites like
Flickr and Youtube, the technical barriers to sharing wide varieties of
media have been removed. But it doesn't end with video and photos -
Googledocs, slideshare and scribd all provide new ways for users to share
media.

My first thought this week is that Kroski's
article is amazing. As I was reading through the positive points about folksonomies and tagging, I kept thinking, "Yes, but...", and then when I got to the latter part of the piece, most of my objections were accounted for.

Hi everyone,

I'm on physical vacation to Ithaca, NY this weekend, so I'm also going to be on vacation online.  See you next week!

I've never really understood the controversy over wikis, and I've always been inclined to view the controversy as more of a generational misunderstanding. My mother, after seeing Andrew Keen speak at OLA conference, insisted that I read his book, The Cult of the Amateur: how today's Internet is killing our culture. But the
element of his message that she found most horrifying, that young people are

Because I had so much to say this week, I've divided up my main blog post and my review of the case studies into two postings:

Case Studies: