PB Wiki

When I first looked at this web address I had no idea that the PB stood for peanut butter. After seeing the site it reminded me of the code word me and my friend Drew used on our first trip Europe.

We hitched-hiked from London to Rome and back and if during our travels either one of us felt funny about a ride or a situation we would say Peanut butter and if the other agreed they would say jelly. Then we would clap our hands like putting the sandwich together and split, leave, get the hell out of there!

It was a good system because you might be a little nervous for no good reason one time and you would miss out on a good time or a good ride. This way there had to be consensus that this was a "bad scene" before we bolted.

Needless to say but we didn't miss out on many good times and met and slept (with/in) a lot of interesting (people /places).

I found a wiki on travel. http://wikitravel.org/en/Mediterranean_Europe It has a good outline and a lot of information on Italy but only on the main attractions. I can't decide whether to help add to this site or develop my own. We'll see maybe I'll try filling in Padua for them and see how it goes.

Well, back to the PBWiki. I entered my blog on the wiki and made an entry to one of the pages. I hope I didn't step over any lines when I used %&#%!$* symbols in my post. I guess the saying can be loosely referred to as a literary device.

I thought that posting was easy but it was hard to figure out how the formatting buttons worked. I liked the preview button so you could try out different formatting codes and see what happened.


John

Wiki Wiki Wah?

I liked Princeton Public Library's "BookLoversWiki". I thought the page set up was clear, well laid out and the script was large and easy to read. (Don't you hate that 7.5 font size) I even found a book to read Domus: Wall Painting in the Roman House.

I thought that mirroring this wiki might be a good application for our library. Their wiki is edited by the adult reading club at the PPL.

I know that it can be hard enough to get public participation in the reading part of the book club but if you can break this technology barrier with our patrons that might open up a another avenue of community involvement for the library.

You could give out extra prizes for participation and set up special computer for wiki entries with trained support staff near by to help walk new patrons through the process.

Sy Sims said it best.

An educated consumer is our best customer.

John

Library 2.0 - To Infinity and Beyond

I liked Dr. Wendy Schultz "Buzz Lightyear" approach to her article. http://www.oclc.org/nextspace/002/6.htm.

From commodity to product to service and then experience her progression is an enlighten look at the future of the library experience.

No matter how disconnected we become I believe that the person to person interaction is the key to our success as an entity, community, world and finally species.

I'll see you all at the Restaurant/Library at the end of the Universe. Don't forget your towel.
To infinity and beyond......

John

Technorati

I started to use this tool to find blogs about Italy and Independant Travel. The two I've found so far are:
http://italyinstructions.com/Welcome.html
and
http://bluegrassbaobabs.blogspot.com/2007/07/italia-arrivederci.html

The first looks like a professional site that's selling a guide book but they have some very good general information. The Planning your adventure pdf is helpful and has good information on how to use your cell phone in italy among other things.

The second site is more of a travelogue of one lady's trip around Italy.

I found the search bar using blogs the most helpful. Searching for Italy and Travel under posts had too many responses. Tags I found were even less helpful I guess everyone tags there posts with Italy (over 480K posts). The blog directory search came up with the same results as searching the blogs tab after a posts search. I also used a keyword search so I could take out all the hotel offer sites.

It was interesting to see what are the popular blogs and searches. I guess other than Ron Paul it's your mixture of internet sites and your ET crowd.

After this program I'll get around to claiming my blog.

John