Too much noise!

I find many of the communication features\opportunities\whatever of many of the "Web2.0" things -- such as YouTube -- very annoying, which, as I understand it, is at the heart of the whole 2.0 phenomena. It is like the Mel Gibson movie "What Women Want" where he gets electrocuted and he hears everything every female thinks. I don't want to "hear" what everyone thinks about everything, truthfully most of us don't have that many memorable or insightful things to communicate and certainly not to the whole world. It is as if we walked up to a library book and suddenly heard everything that everyone who every touched that book thought of it -- what a great writer, I hate green covers, that last book was better, why didn't they publish this last year, I hate short stories, I should have gone to Borders, etc. Too much noise!!!!!!!!! Too much stuff in the way of the information!!!! Too many comments in the way of the document, the photo, the video!!!!

And I Am telling you ....

that here is a video from YouTube ....



Although I don't regularly take a look at YouTube, I have spent some wasted evenings looking around, Kathy White has also shared more than one fun video with me. I was aware of YouTube, but did not investigate it until several reviews of the movie version of "Dreamgirls" mentioned that the original Jennifer's rendition of "And I Am telling you" was on YouTube. There are, of course, several different Jennifer Holiday renditions, but I like this one because it is from the Tonys and has the original Broadway cast -- always a good thing. Also poor deceased Tony Randall does the intro.

While I'm telling you that I am not likely to ever spend a great deal of time with YouTube, etc., I just don't have the patience for it, it is pretty darn amazing what is up there and it is certainly a very handy way to put videos up for mass, or specialized, consumption. One never knows when one might have a reason, professional or otherwise, to put up a video of something.

and the towie goes to

or would that by the webbie goes to ... to many twos\tos in the first

Very insightful to look at the winners list, as we have google stock, happy to see so many google products :).

and

just had a patron talking about Lulu ... so many of my patron types are self-publishers here is some real info for me!

I believe this to be a very useful resource to see the best of the best.

A Sampling of the Virginias in the Maryland Room

Not including family histories and the Civil War.

Title: Obituaries Berkeley County, Virginia (West Virginia), 1791-1855 and other news

Publication info: Martinsburg, WV : Berkeley County Historical Society, 2001.

M 929.5 OBI 2001

Title: Obituaries Berkeley County, Virginia (West Virginia), 1856-1879 and other news

Publication info: Martinsburg, WV : Berkeley County Historical Society, 002.
M 929.5 OBI 2002

Personal Author: Bockstruck, Lloyd DeWitt.

Title: Virginia's Colonial soldiers.
Publication info: Baltimore : Genealogical Pub. Co., 1988.
M 929.3 BOC

Personal Author: Burgess, Louis Alexander, 1864-

Title: Virginia soldiers of 1776, compiled from documents on file in the Virginia Land Office; together with material found in the Archives Department of the Virginia State Library, and other reliable sources.
Publication info: Baltimore, Genealogical Pub. Co., 1973-
M BRIGHAM 973.3 BUR 1973 VOL. 3

Corporate Author: Daughters of the American Revolution. West Virginia. Bee Line Chapter (Charles Town, W. Va.)
Title: Tombstone inscriptions, Jefferson County, West Virginia : 1687-1900

Publication info: [West Virginia] : Daughters of the American Revolution, Bee Line Chapter, 1981.
M 929.509 DAUG

Title: Index to burials in Frederick County, Virginia

Publication info: [Athens, Ga.] : Iberian Pub., 2001.
M 929.5 IND 2001

Personal Author: Duncan, Patricia B.
Title: Loudoun County, Virginia, birth register

Publication info: Westminster, Md. : Willow Bend Books, 1998-
M 929.509 DUNC 1998

Personal Author: Greene, Evarts Boutell, 1870-1947.
Title: American population before the Federal census of 1790
Publication info: Baltimore, Md. : Genealogical Pub. Co., 1993, c1981.
M 317.3 GRE

Personal Author: Gwathmey, John Hastings, 1886-1956.
Title: Historical register of Virginians in the Revolution: soldiers, sailors, marines, 1775-1783. Introd. by H.J. Eckenrode.
Publication info: Baltimore, Genealogical Pub. Co., 1973 [c1938]
M 973.3 GWA 1987

Personal Author: Hoffman, Charles E.
Title: Berkeley County Historical Society, Births in Berkeley County 1883-1888

Publication info: [Martinsburg, W.V.] : Berkeley County Historical Society, [1998?-]
M 929.3 HOF 1998

Personal Author: Hume, Robert, 1955-
Title: Early child immigrants to Virginia 1618-1642 : copied from the records of Bridewell Royal Hospital.
Publication info: Baltimore, Md. : Magna Carta Book Co., 1986.

M 929.3 HUM

Personal Author: Ring, Constance.

Title: Index to the Fairfax County Virginia register of marriages : 1853-1933

Publication info: Lovettsville, Va. : Willow Bend Books, c1997.
M 929.375 RING 1997

Personal Author: Schweitzer, George Keene, 1924-
Title: Virginia genealogical research

Publication info: Knoxville, TN : George K. Schweitzer, c1982.
M 929.1 SCH

Personal Author: Taylor, Evelyn M. E., 1948-
Title: Historical digest of Jefferson County, West Virginia's African American congregations, 1864-1994 : with selected churches in neighboring Berkeley County, W.V., Maryland, and Virginia Publication info: Washington, D.C. : Middle Atlantic Regional Press, 1994.
M 277.54 TAY

Personal Author: Torrence, Clayton, 1884-1953.
Title: Virginia wills and administrations, 1632-1800; an index of wills recorded in local courts of Virginia, 1632-1800, and of administrations on estates shown by inventories of the estates of intestates recorded in will (and other) books of local courts, 1632-1800.
Publication info: Baltimore, Genealogical Pub. Co., 1965.
M 929.3 VIR

Corporate Author: United States. Bureau of the Census.

Title: Heads of families at the first census of the United States taken in the year 1790 ... Virginia
Publication info: Washington, D.C. : Govt. Print. Off., 1907-08 ; Spartanburg, S.C. : Reprint Co., 1961-64.
M 317.3 HEA 1790

Corporate Author: Virginia State Library. Archives Division.
Title: List of the colonial soldiers of Virginia. Special report of the Department of Archives and History for 1913.
Publication info: Baltimore, Genealogical Pub. Co., 1961.
M 929.3 ECK

Personal Author: Vogt, John.
Title: Loudoun County marriages, 1760-1850

Publication info: Athens, Ga. : Iberian Pub. Co., c1985.
M 929.3 VOG

Personal Author: Voress, Hugh Ellison.
Title: Burials in Jefferson County, West Virginia, 1978-1997 : supplemental to tombstone inscriptions to 1980

Publication info: Charles Town, W.V. : Jefferson County Historical Society, 1998.
M 929.509 VORE 1998

Stop losing those disks! (or thumb drives)

I have been using Google Docs since I found it via my gmail account. Also, finding in more e-mails that I get that deal with official stuff, like ALA, people use it more and more for drafts, memos, etc. Had hever heard of Zoho, I am smarter now. Have published to the blog a bibliography, one of several, that I put together earlier this summer for the Frecogs MD\VA Conference and was handing around my gdocs account. This actually could be a handy little feature. That was the bib before this message ... had some order issues, sorry for the confusion.

Del. ... whatever

I was very entertained in the Us.ef.ul article: have seen no history usage, but most of the history professors I know are still using wordperfect and PINE so they’re not exactly “nouveau.”

I still mourn the loss of WordPerfect and loved my PINE account.

I don't really use bookmarks, but could see the usefulness of this for many people, especially folks utilizing several computers. I could see using it if I was every heavily involved in a serious research project; that would probably also be the only time I would see poking around in other's bookmarks, like following their footnotes.

Library Thing

Though I don't care much about the social side, this is a great thing, this thing, I am not sure yet how it will change my life, but hope to fine some useful application for it ...

I just picked the first six books that came to my mind ... I love all the Amelia Peabody books equally, but love the title of Last Camel ... and the Aubrey\Maturin books are the latest great love of my life, don't know what I will do when I finish them.

Not bowled over with the Book Suggester function, but it is always good to have a variety of those up your sleeve, but Novelist much, much better, as it should be.