blogging... on company time

I'm supposed to be blogging as part of an assignment so only the title is lurid :)

I'm a little intimidated by the idea of adding video, and I'm not very social so I have no desire to share my life like that. I guess one can always post video of something else. I'm also intimidated by the RSS feed... and learning more technology (although that is part of the job so it's more like an actor who has stage fright. They're still going to get up on stage and perform).

We discussed two videos last week. The part that interests me the most is the tagging of information: how each of us has a different idea of what the information is about, what sort of tags we want to put on it, the multitude of tags and the lack of a controlled vocabulary, the absence of credibility that exists regardless of the format of information (be it paper, electronic, or internet based), and most important, what I believe to be the changing definition of information. There are websites that will suggest tags based on what tags others have used for the same subjects. I would like to know how that works - is it based on an algorithm that the computer runs? Is there a human making the decisions at the other end? Or something completely different?


Change is inevitable in our profession - those who abhor it should steer clear of the library. New technology becomes available at almost an instantaneous rate. Making the decision on how much of the technology to adopt requires careful attention.