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Having major issues with Blogger the last few days.  I can post on my own blog but when I try to comment on anybody else's it forces me to re-login, enter the disabled text, enter my password, kick me out, round and round we go!! I must by now be filling half a cyber graveyard with all my missing posts. 

Pitseleh, love your Guardian photo sequence, I was on the verge of blubbing too! Horrible to think that that kind of life could cease to exist.  There's something actually beautiful about their self-reliance and contentment.  I'm not sure which number it was but I was endeared to the one where one brother said the worst day of his life was staying in a hotel 3 hours away!

With regard to Pitseleh's house burning down post, checkout the burning house project it's cute!  I have very little personally that's irreplaceable.  Photo albums, and childhood memory box would need to be rescued. The main thing I would want to keep is  a box of diaries and letters I wrote during my teens and twenties.  Even reading them now, I cringe and smile at my younger self.  So clueless, and so naive. I think when I'm older I will cherish these dearly.

Totally against kids on Facebook, I fear having under 13's on  facebook will transform it into a grooming portal for paedophiles.  For every parent who monitors their kids internet use, there will be thousands that don't.  It is so easy to assume a fake identity and groom a child, I really don't see any benefits to this at all. 

I fear something more sinister with Zuckerberg than passive advertising.  Like Twitpic, Facebook owns any photos you upload, so he 'owns' billions of photos of people's lives.   Think about the stars of the future.  Their parents are busy posting every highlight of their little lives on Facebook:  baby scans, first photo, first tooth, first step, first birthday, first day of school, communion, confirmation, graduation............All there in technicolour and OWNED by Zuckerberg.  By the time the next generation go to sign their first record deal or begin to learn the lines for their first movie, Zuckerberg will have a lifetimes worth of photos ready to sell to the biggest bidder.  I find this whole concept terrifying.

Wicki-wicki Wild Wild West

Random irrlevant fact:  Ever since I first heard the phrase Wiki, the chorus of that horrendous Will Smith song from the equally horrendous film Wild Wild West (actually I've never seen it, but I don't think I need to!)comes into my head.  It's a dreadful association, and I hope most people don't even know what I'm referring to.  About 6 seconds in if you're curious!!

Back to this weeks task, wikis.  I never knew where the phrase originated from so that was interesting.
I'd never edited or contributed to a wiki before, though I've read them often, especially Wikepedia, despite the fact that it's a questionable source of information.

I setup my wiki account, and posted my thoughts on the 23thingswiki.  SO easy to use, though I fear I could very easily get carried away with adding extra links, it's THAT easy to use.

In a library context I think it would be a fantastic resource.  Just for staff, for instance with an upcoming staff meeting, if something occured to you during the month, you could post it as and when things pop into your head.  Or if you had an idea for an exhibition or any kind of improvement or a suggestion, maybe you could have a link on it, where you can post ideas as you wish.

The one thing that strikes me is the ease at which you can edit other people's posts.  It would be annoying if somebody else deleted something you contributed to before you felt it had been dealt with or discussed.  The fact that there is a feature showing who edited the link most recently would probably eliminate any problems in this regard!

RSS Feeds

You have to be a bit wary when something is described as really simple, but in this case the description is apt.  I added a few RSS feeds to my blog, one to BBC News and one to Cinematical to get uptodate movie news.
We actually use RSS feeds on the library website as a quick link to the newest items posted on the library blog.  Also for the opening hours.  Initially I was thinking we could use them on the information screen, but   as users could not click on the links to see more information, it would be pointless.