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I don't know much about legal firms, but web 2.0 interest me. This post (http://synecdochic.livejournal.com/238398.html) talks about Web 2.0 in terms of livejournal and advertising, which is what got me interested in the concept originally. It's funny how much better web 2.0 sites work without shares or multiple owners.

On the 'ooh shiny', but also free, front, BBC news actually introuced me to Taskbar shuffle (http://nerdcave.webs.com/), which is one of those things that I've been cursing windows for not being able to do already.

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They have a couple of those tables at the MIT Media Lab right now, and they are so cool. (They also have the vertical computer screen where you can wear gloves and manipulate items without touching anything, like Rodney had in that future-imperfect SGA episode, and which was apparently also in Minority Report.)

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The table-thing sounds similar to something which was brought out for schools last year... no idea if the two are actually linked, and I only know about the school-based one because it was my husband who got the phone of "help, we've had this thing delivered and it's being launched to the press tomorrow, but we can't work out how to make it work. Get here now!"
...I'll see if I can ferret up a link

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this is the product (http://www2.smarttech.com/st/en-US/Products/SMART+Table/default.htm), I can't find the news-thing, though it's probably been taken down as it was a video.

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*whistles* As usual,

synecdochic's thinky thoughts blow me out of the water. She's dead on though. It's also interesting because we had our staff conference yesterday with a whole talk about Web 2.0 and brands on the internet. I do intend to post about it, once I've got my head around everything.

...yeah, that could take a while ;)

Hee - I have no idea what the widget does, but it's such a good feeling when you find one that's perfect for you. I might be addicted to Firefox add-ons, but they're just so useful!

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Ooooooooh! Way cool :D I've played with an interactive white-board, but can't wait for teh gloves!

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Hee. That does look like an educational version of the same thing - Microsoft have just turned into a general computer. M had something similar in the latest Bond film and oh good grief how much do I want one? ;)

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Excellent news about the exhibit. My husband's brother was a Sister. He was also an artist and photographer, so it's possible that some of his work will be there.

I'm honestly not a big fan dividing up one's life into individual blogs. Just for me, obviously, I feel like my life and my fannish life and my writing and everything else can go in one place. (When I kept a written journal, I did it that way and to me LJ is just the computer equivalent of my notebook.)

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Ooh, cool - will look forward to hearing about the exhibit if you get there.

For me, my LJ is a fannish space, which is very separate from my professional life. And my profession is moving increasingly into the blogosphere - if that's something I want to do, then this isn't an appropriate place for it, I don't think. People who wander in looking for fanfic are going to get reams of library advocacy posts, while librarians are going to have to wade through the fanfic to get at the serious stuff. The more library blogs I read, the more I think "I could do that", but I'm not sure I can do it all here. TBH, I'd probably move all the way to a different platform - blogger or wordpress - to keep the two things entirely separate. *shrugs* Might work, might not. We'll see what happens!

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Gotcha. That makes sense. Presumably, if I were JUST doing a "travelgal" blog, I'd want it somewhere else.

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I tell you, these tables will only get popular once they've solved the problem with all the fingerprints on them!

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*g* I did wonder about that. Although the screen of my laptop doesn't show fingerprints when it's on, so it might be the same stuff.

They're going to take some cleaning though!

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We have this touchpad thing at one of the microscopes, and it's driving me crazy - you can't even clean it properly because you're pressing all buttons at once then *facepalms*

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Taskbar shuffle allows you to reorganise things on your menu bar on windows. It's really handy when you've got tons of things open but don't want windows to squash them into a single button.

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*light dawns* Ahhh, I see! And that is definitely something I want :) Thanks!

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naye

Yay~! Reading this makes me feel all professional and... well. Interested in my own profession. Which is good! I don't know when I'll go back to working as a librarian, so I'm really glad you're keeping me up to date with what's going on. If you ever do move your work-related blog somewhere else, please do let me know where it goes, because it's fantastic to have. ♥

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Hee. That's how I'm trying to feel at the moment! I think I will end up with a library blog separate to this one, which will mostly be links for the moment but I might actually write in at some point.

I'll let y'all know when I set it up :)

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I don't know much about legal firms, but web 2.0 interest me. This post (http://synecdochic.livejournal.com/238398.html) talks about Web 2.0 in terms of livejournal and advertising, which is what got me interested in the concept originally. It's funny how much better web 2.0 sites work without shares or multiple owners.

On the 'ooh shiny', but also free, front, BBC news actually introuced me to Taskbar shuffle (http://nerdcave.webs.com/), which is one of those things that I've been cursing windows for not being able to do already.

From:

bironic.livejournal.com

They have a couple of those tables at the MIT Media Lab right now, and they are so cool. (They also have the vertical computer screen where you can wear gloves and manipulate items without touching anything, like Rodney had in that future-imperfect SGA episode, and which was apparently also in Minority Report.)

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The table-thing sounds similar to something which was brought out for schools last year... no idea if the two are actually linked, and I only know about the school-based one because it was my husband who got the phone of "help, we've had this thing delivered and it's being launched to the press tomorrow, but we can't work out how to make it work. Get here now!"
...I'll see if I can ferret up a link

From:

this is the product (http://www2.smarttech.com/st/en-US/Products/SMART+Table/default.htm), I can't find the news-thing, though it's probably been taken down as it was a video.

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*whistles* As usual,

synecdochic's thinky thoughts blow me out of the water. She's dead on though. It's also interesting because we had our staff conference yesterday with a whole talk about Web 2.0 and brands on the internet. I do intend to post about it, once I've got my head around everything.

...yeah, that could take a while ;)

Hee - I have no idea what the widget does, but it's such a good feeling when you find one that's perfect for you. I might be addicted to Firefox add-ons, but they're just so useful!

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Ooooooooh! Way cool :D I've played with an interactive white-board, but can't wait for teh gloves!

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Hee. That does look like an educational version of the same thing - Microsoft have just turned into a general computer. M had something similar in the latest Bond film and oh good grief how much do I want one? ;)

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Excellent news about the exhibit. My husband's brother was a Sister. He was also an artist and photographer, so it's possible that some of his work will be there.

I'm honestly not a big fan dividing up one's life into individual blogs. Just for me, obviously, I feel like my life and my fannish life and my writing and everything else can go in one place. (When I kept a written journal, I did it that way and to me LJ is just the computer equivalent of my notebook.)

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Ooh, cool - will look forward to hearing about the exhibit if you get there.

For me, my LJ is a fannish space, which is very separate from my professional life. And my profession is moving increasingly into the blogosphere - if that's something I want to do, then this isn't an appropriate place for it, I don't think. People who wander in looking for fanfic are going to get reams of library advocacy posts, while librarians are going to have to wade through the fanfic to get at the serious stuff. The more library blogs I read, the more I think "I could do that", but I'm not sure I can do it all here. TBH, I'd probably move all the way to a different platform - blogger or wordpress - to keep the two things entirely separate. *shrugs* Might work, might not. We'll see what happens!

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Gotcha. That makes sense. Presumably, if I were JUST doing a "travelgal" blog, I'd want it somewhere else.

From:

I tell you, these tables will only get popular once they've solved the problem with all the fingerprints on them!

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*g* I did wonder about that. Although the screen of my laptop doesn't show fingerprints when it's on, so it might be the same stuff.

They're going to take some cleaning though!

From:

We have this touchpad thing at one of the microscopes, and it's driving me crazy - you can't even clean it properly because you're pressing all buttons at once then *facepalms*

From:

Taskbar shuffle allows you to reorganise things on your menu bar on windows. It's really handy when you've got tons of things open but don't want windows to squash them into a single button.

From:

*light dawns* Ahhh, I see! And that is definitely something I want :) Thanks!

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naye

Yay~! Reading this makes me feel all professional and... well. Interested in my own profession. Which is good! I don't know when I'll go back to working as a librarian, so I'm really glad you're keeping me up to date with what's going on. If you ever do move your work-related blog somewhere else, please do let me know where it goes, because it's fantastic to have. ♥

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