YouTube glitch--#20

I found that when you set up your blog to post videos from YouTube you lose a certain amount of control--For example, I tried to add tags to the post from the blog side and it messed up the code so that it would not post. Perhaps one needs to edit from the YouTube side before posting.

Delicious 13

I fired up a del.icio.us account under the peaisforpurl username (I now have to maintain a googledoc that lists all my accounts, user names, passwords and email affiliations.)and tagged some websites--I must say that the word "tag" is now "overdetermined" and since I have an endless fascination with words let's play with the "tagging" phenomenon. On my tool bar now is an icon that looks like a luggage tag. This is what I click on to let my d account know that the current website will be added to my bookmarks. I can also apply "tags" or descriptors to that bookmark to add to the cloudbursts of descriptors in my account as well as to the mushrooming cloud in the tag universe of del.icio.us. I can look at all of my bookmarks with a particular tag. I can look at all of my tags. Tagging also refers to what graffiti artists do which to me means making an individual identifying and identifiable mark on the landscape's skin for all to see. When you play a game of tag you are tapping or striking someone b/c they have been "caught" and are now tagged "it" The "it" has a new identity and becomes tagger. Tag=identity, tag=designator, tag=marker but it does not replace anything, it is just a means of identifying sort of the way a catalog card used to do and hey that looks like a kind of paper tag and also if you are a scrapbooker (the bricks and mortar kind) then you know about the tag rage among scrapbookers-- So much of what this technology is promulgating is a kind of "cut and paste" universe. No judgment just an observation.

Library Thing #11

I have had a LT account for about a year. I have a small eclectic collection in my home library of books on scripts, history of the alphabet, calligraphy and books on books and reading. I added them to LibraryThing b/c I wanted to see how many people had similar titles and then I wanted to sneak into their libraries and wander around. I have since added some of my children's collection. My statistic for least and most shared books in my burgeoning catalog: Angela's Aliens (2), Harry Potter #7 18,092. One feature I had not explored before and I was delighted with is connecting with authors who have their libraries on LT and lo and behold the YA author John Green (author of Looking for Alaska--one of my favorite audio books) has his 1,023 item library here. I was shocked to discover that he is also a huge illustrator for Dover Books--coloring books etc.--He goes by "sparksflyup" I also checked out libraries that use LibraryThing. The Claremont Colleges (1 of which I attended in the early 70's) uses LibraryThing tags in their catalog--take a look
The Deschutes Public Library in Oregon looks like it catalogs using LibraryThing.
A Horizon Dynix Library in Colorado uses LT tags and Recommended titles.
Tagmash: I searched "children's fiction" and "faerie" and got the top 106 titles. I was pleased to see that LT also searched faeries and faery and fairies.