So I'm on the 23rd thing. This has been an interesting experience and I really appreciate that PPLD and the Tech folks took the time to share these Things with the rest of us. It represents what I love about working for the library -- the philosophy of lifelong learning. I know these Things will change and shift, with new Things showing up all the time and other Things disappearing. But these concepts and ideas are changing our society in ways that will continue to affect us even as the individual Things come and go. So it is vital that we learn about what is happening and understand how technology is filtering into our daily lives. Thank you for giving us this gift of information!
When my kids play a certain car racing game on the wii, they have something that occasionally gives their car a "booster" and they can temporarily go racing ahead of their opponents. When the booster burns out their cars return to their normal pace and it is up to them to hold onto any lead they may have gained during their "super power" moments. That is how I feel about 23 Things -- it was a booster that pushed me temporarily into the know. Now it will be up to me to try to stay there!
So I loved learning more about the blogging world, and even though I knew about RSS feeds, I really didn't understand their practical application. I really didn't even know what the 2.0 concept was and I am so glad that has been made clear to me. I loved Library Thing and Del.icio.us and Google Labs. But maybe the Best Thing Of Them All is the Web 2.0 Awards, because it is a single website that holds the best of all the sites we were learning about and more! And to think I wouldn't have understood what I was looking at if you had introduced it any earlier! That is the most obvious demonstration of how far we've come -- that we can look at that website and know what we're seeing! Have I said "thank you" yet?
So what should have been done differently? Hmmm..... My experience was one of high enthusiasm which wained in the face of so many Things. For some people, getting started was the hard part and then they flew. For me, each time I added a Thing to my brain I got a little more saturated, until I felt I couldn't possibly absorb another Thing (at least until some time went by and a few Things fell out of my brain and made room). So it got progressively harder for me to keep going with the same level of enthusiasm and interest. It started to feel like a lot of Things and I didn't want to lose the ones I already did and yet when you only scratch the surface of each one and move on it is easy to lose them just as quickly and then what would have been the point?
So I say HURRAH for the Things! Would I do it next time? YOU BET! I fervently hope there WILL be a next time. Just maybe not 23?
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