Welcome to Blog-A-Log, my very first blog!
Although I've come across blogs and blogging I've never created or had the desire to create one. Will anyone ever read this message in a bottle? I've no desire to finish work (on a computer all day) and go home to read about what other people have been doing all day so why would anyone want to read this?. I'd rather interact with the real people I cohabitate with. I've created this blog thanks to the 2.0 program I'm participating in. I'm hoping to become more internet savvy and understand clients and my children when they talk about downloading and uploading, RSS feeds, etc. Maybe I'll even get to like blogging and reading and commenting on others.
I've been looking at a few blogs that organisations (particularly libraries) have created and have found them a good way of getting information across. I like how some libraries use thier blogs to post information and photos of their events. I don't like how some of these blogs try to use it as a way of interacting with youth in particular. It doesn't seem succesful as it's rare to find a blog created for youth that has any comments on it. Also staff time to moderate such a system must be quite taxing.
For communicating over our region (over 10 libraries) I think that a blog would be very useful. It would be a quick way to exchange ideas. All staff would have access to comments no matter if they were part time or casual. It would also be a great way of advertising upcoming events to the public, posting photos and articles about past events and general information that sometimes doesn't seem to have any place on a non blog website.
As for lifelong learning we live in an age where knowledge isn't enough - there's just too much to remember, however, being information literate is extremely important. The ability to find out information as it's required is imperitave to surving in todays information age. As Stephen Fry said you no longer miss moments in time - the internet will let you recapture time. This can be both good and bad. Maybe we feel so stressed out and never switch off as we struggle to squeeze moments past into other moments.
Can't wait for Flickr next week.
