Flickrier

Flickr does have some quite amusing and impressive tools available to users who desire to alter or enhance their images. One finds many possibilities under "Big Huge Labs," where I found the "Captioner" and "FX" features particularly interesting. The second image below is a charcoal drawing of the third, and actually appears to be in the style of drawings found on the walls of ancient ruins. Tools such as these would be very valuable to any patron of the library needing to manipulate images for school or work, and it would be great for librarians to suggest such ideas to users of library computers...If nothing else, bored youth could spend lots of time engaged in this type of activity!

Flickry

Flickr has been quite the popular site for posting one's photos for a long while, but I've never used it until now. I do wish I had posted my wedding photos on Flickr, however, instead of that Kodak site I used. I'll get around to it someday, I suppose, since Flickr is used by most everyone that's web savvy. And no doubt, what with being incredibly easy to use and having such a catchy name and all. I did add a few more recent photos, deciding that I'm not a "morning flickrer," either...

Thing 2(.0)

Obviously, it is clear that as "information specialists," we all should be familiar to an extent with current technologies and trends in that realm. After all, there many of the people we serve will themselves be "fluent" in these areas, or will wish to know more about them and be seeking answers from us. This means that we should be taking the time to really experience and play with cutting edge technology, as Mr. Abram talked about.

Web 2.0 is certainly something librarians today should be immersing themselves in, if they are not already. No doubt most are familiar enough with the Internet, but going a step further and being versed in things like the "23" which we are studying can only increase the public's confidence in us as a great resource for learning about new technology. The other video did well in showing how different the world is from just a decade ago, and how "more connected" the peoples of the world are now. Librarians will have to be at least with the masses, if not one step ahead, to serve them well in this regard.