Week 1: Social Software, and Blogs

Anticipating a strenuous trip of four weeks, Zhar insisted on a short detour to hunt some lizards for his satchel while I read Time to Check: Are You Using the Right Blogging Tool? by Susanna Gardner. This left me wondering if I should change my present nest to one on a WordPress tree. Again provisioned we took off to Ann Arbor District Library Directory's blog, the first stop on our flight plan. I was very impressed by the pleasing orderliness of this library's site design (I am still reorganizing my roost to achieve this). I felt welcomed and fed with interesting tidbits, lingering to explore AXIS which was promoting an event featuring one of my favorite poets, Rumi. Zhar flushed with enthusiasm darted off to New Jersey's Old Bridge Library Weblog, where he misjudged his landing, and, plumage and spirits river-dampened, had to flutter awkwardly back west to dry off in Marin County Free Library blog. I also ventured east to visit Binghamton University Science blog and Ohio University Libraries Business blog. Not being a scientific or entrepreneurial minded avian, I can only imagine how useful these tools are for a human student. I have collected my rumpled colleague for a luncheon break of black tea and some California smelt sandwiches, which, of course, we will compare with our delectable ones made of Riga smelt. Now fortified for further flight, we agree that Ann Arbor Library is a roost to return to.