http://labs.wanokoto.jp/oldsHere we have a new picture made to look old. I found this in keeping with so many of the sites referred to on the Generator Blog, i.e., honestly, what is the point besides playing or wasting time? Yes, I am amazed at what is out there, but I'm also thinking that so much is pointless. Do people really have so much time on their hands? I suppose these comments are doing nothing but revealing my age ("bery" old - which is an inside joke) and my personal preference: when I have free time, I prefer to lose myself in a book, not the Internet. Okay, maybe I'm also getting disheartened by how much I am out of touch/out of the loop. (Lordy, I've just reread what I've written, and if I didn't want to have this part of the assignment done, I would delete it all. What a whiner! A cliched one at that. :)
2 comments:
Thank you for touching on what many of us are feeling, and having the courage to then not delete your post! I'm finding this class just fascinating and quite understand the lure of spending the rest of my life attached to my computer, but definitely don't want to be sucked into that.
Bev, it's true you're a whiner, but so am I - and that's OK!
I'm a sheep farmer - practicality and pragmatism are at the center of my being; I approach all of this web 2.0 with practical uses in mind, like extending library services and promoting the library on the web. Especially by putting very updated information, using audio and visual tools. That's where the future is going -- to the web. The web may not be super-important to our traditional users - the ones who exclusively check out books - but if we want to attract and appeal to new, younger users and make a transition to the future, I think these web 2.0 tools will help.
Even books have changed over time; in the non fiction section of the library where I used to work we had to rebuild the shelves to be taller, in order to accommodate the larger size of contemporary books, which are heavier on illustrations than the text-based books of old. And now you have the smaller formats, too; tapes, CDs and dvds making up a larger portion of our collections. Early 20th century library shelves were built for 9" books. Everything changes, and we probably should try to embrace change. Anyway, I hope by the end of this program we will all be turned on to some cools ways that we can use emerging technologies to enhance library services.
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