The 13th: LibraryThing

Another frustrating learning experience. After dutifully following instructions to "paste this code to your blog" we get ......nothing!!! No explanations of why this won't work, no alternative methods to use and no amount of help from experienced colleagues could correct the problem.

So much for Jade's Virtual library. Here, instead, is the bricks and mortar library where at least you can get there from here.

"The creative process is a mystical path...we do not enter it after we get everything else out of the way....there is lots of dead material when we don't honor the live thing."

-from Jade's library...A Walk Between Heaven & Earth. A Personal Journal on Writing and the Creative Process by Burghild Nina Holzer

Thing 12: Wikis

Wikis are a useful tool for building on a specialized knowledge base or set of experiences through collaborative enterprise. The end product is dynamic, current and relevant, as committed users bring a level of expertise and oversight to insure that entries are correct and information is valid.

Focus and organization are important, or the community will not be motivated to participate in and maintain the site. Good uses are project evolvement, research and resource sharing and internal organizational collaboration.

"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts...."

23 things: the Eleventh: Social Media

Frankly, these seem focused on the trivial and the useless. Is it really critical to the unfolding of the universe that Japanese Giant Hornets have been spotted or that John Bolton followed by Ann Coulter are cracking comments on which US cities they would nuke!! Not all things on the internet are inherently worthy of time and attention. And access to the internet does not make one a journalist or commentator worth reading.

"Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant..."

-Bill Maher