Are YOU a twopointopian?

The Annoyed Librarian uses this term on her blog. Heck, she may have coined it. Despite being somewhat of a twopointopian, and despite the fact that the term is used mockingly, I still love it!

http://annoyedlibrarian.blogspot.com/2007/12/library-technologists-of-future.html

Yahoo "Answers" become headlines?

There's something very wrong about this. Yahoo is elevating some of its "Answers" to the status of headlines on its web portal. As you may or may not have already known, those "answers" are provided by users, and then the "best" answer is selected by the user who asked the question, sometimes seemingly without regard for any reasonable definition of "best" or even of "answer."

So how does Yahoo figure these "answers" should be headlines? Because it will help sell their product? It's difficult to think of a different answer. Maybe I'll ask on Yahoo "Answers."

UPDATE: I did ask on Yahoo Answers. Surprisingly, it wasn't removed immediately, which is what I expected to happen based on previous critical-of-the-whole-concept-of-Yahoo-Answers questions I've posted. But it was up for a couple of days before someone answered. Here's the answer (which I immediately chose as the best answer):

"Nope, I think you hit the nail right on the head. It's all blatant self-promotion."

I still expect it to be removed at any time.

New year, new blog

By now it's old news: the acplinfo.blogspot.com blog is being replaced with acplinfo.wordpress.com. We're looking for bloggers for it, especially to write about ACPL materials (though also about other stuff that the bloggers deem blogworthy). If you've taken to blogging during Learning 2.0, please consider writing a few sentences to a couple of paragraphs about a book, movie, or CD from time to time on the new blog.

If we had 20 people doing it once a month, we'd be in a really good place. And hey, what's once a month? If you're in a book discussion group, blog about that book. Mine the past - blog about a favorite book or movie you read that still stands up today. There will be a link to the blog right on the homepage, so we expect a lot more people to be reading it.

Finally, we're mainly trying to create connections between our materials and our patrons, so usually we'll want to stay away from posting harshly negative reviews. Focus on the positive.

Thing 15: Myspace

I think I've made my opinion about Myspace known. It's poorly designed, prone to spam, and generally annoying. But lots of people use it. So I know how to use it. Though I try not to.

Thing 13: del.icio.us

del.icio.us is a great idea. I used it well before Learning 2.0. I think of it as an RSS feed aggregator for web pages that don't publish feeds. Keeping track of stuff more easily than with bookmarks.

Thing 12: LibraryThing

"If the buzz page doesn't convince you, you cannot be convinced. Go away. "

Meh. I went away. It's a good idea for people who need to keep track of stuff like that. I used to buy books; now I check them out. Don't want to pay to tag the books I've read. (First 200 are free ... doesn't excite me.)

If we could get LibraryThing and our catalog together somehow ... that could be cool.

Thing 10: MP3 player

Okay, I can do that. It's not terribly interesting to me.