Regarding Thing 15

I groaned inwardly at the thought of this particular Thing. I'm just not drawn to the social interactive aspects of the web. My impression is that it's the home of all that's insipid and inane. But anyway, and seriously, I did find reading about the subject to be tolerable, if not a bit interesting. At Library 2.0 there's lots of discussion among librarians who are just getting their toes wet with Twitter, and what's interesting is that you can tell this is the very beginning, the early teething stages of exploring how to use it. I couldn't really tell how they actually are using it, and that's because, in many cases, neither could the librarians yet. It's also interesting to read about settings where the librarians, in small special or township public libraries, have some autonomy in decision making. They can come to work one day and think "Let's try Twitter today" and just jump in with negligible bureaucrataic fol-de-rol to navigate first.