Feedback on Feedback

Harumph.
I was trying to do all my assigments for Feedback Thingys. I messed about with my settings, trying to make my blog as comment-friendly as possible. It seems that my pre-messing about posts are open for comments, but my post-messing about posts are not, or at least not as obviously (that is, there is no link that says 0 comments).

So obviously, a barrier to feedback thingys, at least for me, is getting the gol-dang things to work correctly.

I would love to be able to use feedback thingys as a mechanism for gathering information from users of our specific branch. Problems: our actual branch users (vs. MPL users in general, or the world at large)locating such a thingy. Sure, we might get a comment that someone would be interested in such-and-such an adult program, but if the comment really came from North Dakota it isn't of much use to me. But then, if someone from North Dakota is making specific suggestions for my library, he or she has waaaay too much time on his or her hands.

A significant portion of our patrons don't interact with the library via the web, so we would miss out on feedback from a lot of our users this way. Still, some is better than none, no? I just worry that feedback is skewed toward a certain segment of our users, but I guess that is also the case with non-web feedback as well.

Back to more mucking about in my settings. If you're trying to comment,I'M WORKING ON IT!

Ellipsis Anonymous

I seem to have a penchant for putting ellipsis in my blog headers.

Hi, my name is [your name here] and I have a punctuation problem.

Survey says......

Continuing in my hopeless quest to catch up, herewith is my Thanksgiving-themed survey. Since I am so behind, I fear none of my colleagues will bother to visit my poor little blog and take my survey. Boo hoo hoo. Woe is me.

Let's see if I can manage to properly copy a link.

Click Here to take survey

OK, so I'm a little behind......

Here's my Week 3 post.....during, what is it, Week 9? I had good intentions. Now I'm using part of my day off to try to catch up. Even though I am allowed to do this on work time, I never seem to be able to make that happen.


Bloglines. Hmmm. I set up an account long before Project Play came along. And promptly ignored it.


I'm a creature of habit. I have some sites I check regularly, including things like my bank account and my kids' lunch accounts, that I can't use a newsreader for. Stubbornly, I insist on visiting my bookmarked sites in order, regardless of whether they could be "RSSd" or not. Clearly, I am not living in the Web 2.0 world.

If I were a wise person, I would just bookmark Bloglines, and get rid of the "RSSable" bookmarks entirely.


Perhaps wisdom will visit me someday.



What I like about Bloglines (or what I would like if I would use it):


Eliminating the need to check on sites that haven't been updated after all.



What I don't like (or think I don't like):


I'm a bit afraid of getting buried in content, so I am hesitant to subscribe to sites--like news sites--with frequent updates. When I check a news site now, I'm seeing what' s going on now. If I missed something that happened yesterday, well, what I don't know won't hurt me. I'll just have to struggle through my life without knowing about the latest development in the Britney/K-Fed custody battle. I am concerned that if I add news to my Bloglines account, it will be the same as saving up unread newspapers and feeling as though I need to read all the old ones. Whoosh, there goes all that time I just saved not repeatedly checking websites, and then some.



I dislike that you lose some of a blogger's personality when viewing their content through Bloglines. The blogs all look the same, and that makes me a little sad...like I'm having a cup of coffee at Starbucks instead of the neighborhood coffee shop.