Thing #36 Flickr Revisited

Flickr is an easy to use site, I've known about it for a while but had never used it. Uploading the pictures was nice and easy not like the facebook way of uploading pictures that I'm used to.

Here's the link to my pictures, http://www.flickr.com/photos/49974717@N06/

Flickr would be a great tool to promote the library visually I would plan things like taking pictures of all the new or interesting covers of books. Another way since this is kind of the campus for art have a student/staff contest to see whose picture best represents the library.

Sadly though I could not do this anytime soon. It would probably take forever for this to be approved seeing as we are still waiting to see whether we can have a facebook page or not.

Thing #35 Wakoopa

I was going to participate in this one but there wasn't enought time since I looked at it on April 30th. I tried downloading the tracking part but it but it never took and my computer here at work doesn't have the easiest time downloading stuff and this was before we got newer computers put in.

The whole concept of it is a little iffy as to whether it would even be accepted by people who really like their privacy. Just the other day we had someone complain because she was checking her e-mail on a computer and later came back to the same computer and it remembered her password/she didn't have to log in again. People don't want others to know what they have been doing.

I personally don't like having to download something to track what I'm doing and if you use a program a lot you just know that you use it a lot, you don't really need a program to tell you that. The only way it might be useful is if you have to account for your time wherever you work. It might be beneficial for patron use of computers but I think you really should tell people that they are being tracked as to what they use the most.