Week Eight Discovery Exercise

Assignment: 1. Write about the Mashup you found on your blog. 2. Browse the results [from Rollyo] and write something about what these bloggers said about privacy in your blog.

1. I looked at HealthMap, which incorporates Google Maps with medical news releases, such as Google News, ProMed, World Health Organization, and EuroSurveillance. According to this handy tool, there was an outbreak of hepatitis in Tennessee late last month, and mumps, norovirus, and and salmonella have been reported in Ohio. Interesting tool.

2. The results weren't suprising. Basically, there is limited, if any, privacy these days. Especially in the online world, privacy shouldn't be assumed. I'm not saying we shouldn't be vigilant to protect privacy, but we should use good sense and know that privacy doesn't exist in the way that it did before the internet.

Week Seven Discovery Exercise

Assignment: Write a blog entry discussing how you felt about the experience of using YouTube and what you think about this service. Do you see any potential uses for Podcasting in the library? If so what and why?

I like YouTube, and I love the variety of videos available. I'm actually in one (mostly you hear my laugh...it's a video made during a gathering of friends). As far as more professional-level videos, I'm not sure about the credibility. Like Wikipedia, anyone can post. Even if they say they are someone, they may not be. I like the idea of being able to embed videos into websites, as that lends some credence.

Podcasting...we've talked about podcasting before, and don't see a need for it at this time. My idea for a podcast series, a fictional story that takes place in the medical library, was shot down. Oh well...perhaps I'll podcast that on my own. :)

Week Six Discovery Exercise

I've been doing the activities through the weeks, but not actually posting. So this is the beginning of a flurry of posts to get me through the class!

Assignment: Blog about the process [online phonto sharing] on your personal blog for this course and share how this concept might be used in your library.

Online photo sharing is cool! I've been using flickr for a couple years, and enjoy posting pictures that I want to share with people. I created a photo set within Facebook for this discovery exercise, as that was a new process for me. I posted pics of my sister's birthday party (she turned 5 earlier this year), and limited it to my Facebook friends only. As she is not old enough to consent for her pictures being online, I locked them down as much as I could.

As far as this library...we can use flickr here now (it used to be blocked). At some point we may consider a library flickr account for pictures around the library and taken at conferences. It's something to ponder.