Week 7 already.....back at it again!

That break seemed like a long time away from this exercise that is 23 Things NB, and the blog itself (I can sense it's--the blog's--loneliness and empty feeling).

First off, I must say, that video we had to watch for this week's YouTube lesson gave me the chills. I even shared it to my Facebook (which I never do anymore, unless I feel very strongly about what I am sharing). Very cool to say the least.

For this I will fall back on my good-ol'-go-to-subject-matter (and no not cats silly-people, LEMONS!). Instead of hyperlinking, I am going to attempt to embed the same video that I used in a previous post, none other than The Lemon Song by Led Zeppelin:

 



But for realz...I mean real...videos, podcasts, etc. are definitely an easy and powerful way to disseminate information; they can be interactive, attractive, appealing, and much more. While this TED Talk may not be specifically about libraries, it is dicussing information and what are libraries if not a gateway to that information.

 

I watched this TED Talk in school a couple years ago and I always thought of it as a great (and quick) little learning tool for what these companies are doing with us/our information. It provides an alternative to just reading about it, top that off with decent speaker and some graphics in the video itself and you have yourself an attractive/appealing/powerful little snippet full of thought-provoking and interesting things to think about! Happy viewing:

 

Pinning interests...pin interests...pin terests...PPPPinterest!! (imma pin the Olympics)

So can I just start out by saying Go Canada Go! I am obsessed with the Winter Olympics. At this very moment we are ahead in the medal standings, with lots of shiny golds. But that is not the only thing I love (winning that is), I love the sport, the way (especially after Vancouver 2010) it makes me so proud to be a Canadian, the competitive spirit, the spectacular triumphs and fails, everything about it. That being said this week and the next= a non-existant life, unless it involves a screen giving me Olympic updates.

Oh shoot, this isn't about Sochi 2014....it's about Pinterest...my bad...

I have done pretty good so far tying in my off-topic topics with the THINGs of the week so let's see if I can succeed with a week of Pinteresting the Olympics! Here it goes...(I had to create an account, seeing as I have only ever visited the website once before via a link someone sent me)...

Easy-peasy, though there was not as much as I was hoping on these current Olympics, but I pinned a few pins to my Olympic board:



For our final THING this week, I don't think there is an Olympic Library to follow. There really should be though, I am sure a little library in Athlete's Village would be grand for athletes' unwinding and down-time (I am going to suggest it, and run it!). That being said, I did a search for library pinners to follow and chose a few that interested me!

Happy week and Go Canada Go!!!!!!

Images of cats, you say?.....

I must say, those videos burst my bubble (and I am not going to lie, scared me a little). I guess I should go back to a couple posts and properly give credit.

I am not new to copyright, I know (for the most part) that you can't just use anyone's images anytime you want to. But, thinking back to the lemon-cat image I posted a couple bloggings ago, it was not even an inkling of mine to give someone credit for that, as it just seemed like silly nonsense--I guess the proper thing to do is thank and give credit to...http://lordalexvw.videofoundry.co.nz/...

...but how do I know this person didn't just do the same as I did, get it from somewhere and not state the source. I guess it simply comes down to not using images you can't source, if you want to do things properly...

I found this week very interesting--learning stuff I thought I had a decent grasp on before. I must say, though, I am realizing how naïve I was about all this image usage stuff...anyhow, here is my my Wordle-created-word-cloud, legally-found-and-used-and-attributed-image and the meme I created:

(I couldn't edit the coding to make the image bigger, and not affect the quality, any tips?)

 

(How can you look at these eyes...this face...and not love Springers)


By The Boy that time forgot (Own work) [GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0 or CC-BY-SA-2.5-2.0-1.0], via Wikimedia Commons

(Not sure if trying to be funny worked out so well)