Micro-blogging & Music Online

I'm going to condense the two "lessons" into one post here...

I think I'm clear on the whole concept of micro-blogging. I signed up for a Twitter account a few months ago, but I'm still not entirely sure how to activate it. When I go to the site and try to enter my cell phone number, it asks me for a country code and I'm not sure what it is. The directions they give you on that site are not very straightforward. I've talked to my friends online about Twitter and I've gotten many mixed reviews about it. I've also read articles about it and am aware of the site's tendency to crash. So, it seems like it has room to improve.

As for music online... I listen to it all the time. I have accounts at both last.fm and pandora.com, although I think the latter has better quality music, the former has more diversity.

Mash-ups

Well, I read up on mash-ups and played around with a couple of them. I think they are fascinating and a lot of fun. I'm sure there are many out there that are perfect in professional atmospheres, too.

From what the wikipedia article said, mash-ups are becoming more and more the norm to see online. It just makes me wonder what else "they" will come up with in a few years that makes mash-ups look antiquated. That seems to be the general trend with all of technology.

SMS

I was around for all the excitement about Vodaphone. England, Europe, Japan and Korea have been way ahead of us on using SMS as individuals and in England they have been finding ways to apply the technology to library services for more than a decade. We have just switched to sending emailed notices to people when we know that most of our patrons don't have computers at home..... We can be sure that upwards of 85% have cell phones, maybe we should have leapfrogged over email.

I use text messaging with my kids--- Ashamed to admit especially when I know they are in class...
but, I pay per message so I don't use it all that much.

I hate what txtng is doing to the informality of kids written language--- I had to stop somebody from sending a cover letter with his resume "that u requested"

Janet