Comments on classmates' blogs

I posted the following comments on classmates' blogs:

http://skdhuth.blogspot.com/2010/12/week-13-notes.html

Reading notes

1) No place to hide site: http://www.noplacetohide.net/
2) TIA and data mining http://www.epic.org/privacy/profiling/tia/
3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS8ywG5M_NQ


The No Place To Hide info is seriously creepy. On the one hand, I want to laugh because if any has to watch me that closely, they're likely to be bored to death by my decidedly unspectacular life. On the other hand, it's horrifying to see how easy it is to watch an ordinary citizen's every move. It's like after 9-11, the government turned into a giant paranoid voyeur pervert that watches people just because it can. And that's pretty sad. Surely they have more important things to do. I'm glad that libraries try to respect the privacy of patrons in spite of this type of watchful environment. Libraries aren't perfect, but where I've worked in the past, they really try to protect their patrons in what small ways they can.

Muddiest Point

I have no muddiest point this week.

Comments on classmates' blogs

I commented on my classmates' blogs here:

http://christyfic.blogspot.com/2010/11/reading-notes-week-12-nov-29-2010.html

http://acovel.blogspot.com/2010/11/unit-11-reading-notes_25.html

Reading notes, November 22, 2010

I really like the idea of using wikis in libraries. It seems like a great way to share knowledge both among employees within an organization and between the organization and the public. As younger patrons grow up with wikipedia and are used to finding and using information found online, it makes sense that these patrons would gravitate easily to using a wiki-styled instruction source. I also like the idea of using tagging for library resources. Controlled vocabulary serves a good purpose, but alone it sometimes is lacking. It doesn't match up oftentimes with the terms chosen by the average user, even in systems that account for synonyms. Like wikis, tagging is something young people are familiar with. Libraries need to change with the times and use new practices and new technologies in order to remain relevant. I found all of these articles interesting. Social networking, wikies, tagging, and similar technologies are all changing the way that people and institutions interact. I look forward to being able to be creative in using these things on the job.

muddiest point November 22, 2010

I have no muddiest point this week.

Comments on Classmates' Blogs

I commented on the following blogs:

http://acovel.blogspot.com/2010/11/unit-11-reading-notes.html

http://bds46.blogspot.com/2010/11/reading-notes-week-11-reposted.html