Photo manipulation

This was an interesting lesson. I first explored Big Huge Labs. I played with creating a puzzle, and thought "This would make a great gift with the right photo!" Then, I checked the price. Yikes!! $40 for a small 252 piece puzzle is fairly ridiculous, at least to me. I didn't play with their create a poster option, but could certainly see how it would be wonderful for libraries to use--photos of events used to create posters for the same event the next year, etc. Of course, it all depends on the price...
Then, I looked at some of the applications for making slide shows with photos. These tools would certainly come in handy for library presentations. And, I have to confess, my first thought was how cool it would be to use this to come up with a slideshow of childhood photos for my daughter's upcoming wedding. Of course, my daughter may not agree...

Online productivity

This seems to have great potential for the workplace. Different people can collaborate on a single document (or group of documents) for a presentation, etc. So much less time than emailing folks back and forth.
The problem remains, however, with people who procrastinate.
Now, if they could only come up with a solution for that...

Tags/Social Bookmarks

Okay, I get it now. I have to confess that this is one more thing about which I've smiled and nodded and had no earthly clue what people were talking about. Everyone talked about delicious as if it were the best thing since sliced bread, and I had no idea why.
So, now I get it.
I can totally see how this would be helpful. They're right--bookmarking interesting sights gets totally unwieldy. But, if I can keep those things on a delicious account, then I don't have to be so selective about what I bookmark, thus ending the frustrating "I want to be able to find this site again, but when will I realistically need it?" For instance, my son is an historical reenactor, and I find helpful sites about how to construct time-appropriate shoes, or that sell woolen stockings (I know, I know, but he's a wonderful kid, so I can overlook him wearing stockings), so now I can bookmark them, even though I may not need the information again until the stockings wear holes bigger than I can mend.
I appreciated the library sites that were listed with "tag clouds." Really helpful stuff. It makes so much sense for the librarians to find all the good, useful, informationally correct sites, and post tags to help patrons find them. So much better than sending teens into cyber space to find weird "information" that some wacko posted. And off the subject, I loved the librarians' avatars and the "get to know them" sites. Makes patrons feel more comfortable with the librarians, and make the librarians more approachable. Gotta love that.

Facebook update

Well, I took the plunge. In the privacy of home, where I had plenty of time to play with it, I created a Facebook page. I was surprised at how easy it was (taking a good picture was the hardest part--sheesh!), and astonished by how quickly it grew. Suddenly I was getting stuff from all these people. However, compared to my daughter's site, I'm positively plain jane. She's got all sorts of stuff going on there. Evidently, she's some sort of mafia person.
I'm not asking.
Another weird thing? Someone from high school contacted me almost immediately. And, I'm embarrassed to say, someone that I don't remember, even though I looked them up in my yearbook (and they had to tell me their maiden name and that they went to high school with me before I even got that association.)
That's just sad.
Have I truly lost that many brain cells?