Lots of stuff to write about tonight (none of which I'd have to trudge through if there was a way to make Postalicious work on PSU blogs.) Oh well.
The NYT launched their My Times site. Think of it as iGoogle mashed up with the NYT's regular home page. Problem is, it doesn't pull in all of the other types of content that sites like iGoogle or NetVibes do. I started to create my own page, but got tired by the entire process. Google Reader and the NYT feeds are fine for me. Who is the audience they are building this for?
Chris Stubbs blogs about Facebook's impact on Greek rush at Penn State. Chris's insights on this were very interesting, but I'll confess that what drove this item into my toblog folder was its coverage of the difficulty one now encounters trying to mass email / mass invite on Facebook. We tried to leverage Facebook for the Open House this year, creating a group page, an event page, and even a page for the mascot, First Mate. I encountered lots of difficulty in trying to invite people to any of these online entities, beyond my own friend list (which, really is a bunch of librarians, and we know they're coming to the Open House!) So, yep, Facebook is pretty locked down in this manner. I almost sank to asking my PR interns to invite their friends to the event, but I just couldn't go there.
Dan Cohen's insights on the Perils of Anonymity. The AL tried to start fights on this topic not once, but twice in the past week, but I'm not going to go there (like I did a few weeks ago). Cohen's post says it all, at least from an academic librarian / faculty member's perspective.
More from the ToBlog folder tomorrow (and if you figure out how to make Postalicious work in this environment, let me know!)
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