mmm....delicious

I think Delicious has alot of potential for doing research in a library setting and if your were a student and needed quick links to encyclopedic databases for research papers. I found that the HowStuffWorks is one that would be really helpful for alot of the random questions received at the reference desk. I usually just go straight to Wikipedia, but sometimes you have to wonder about the accuracy of the information on there. I have been using delicious for a little while now, but when you work at a branch where desk hours are always changing and not everyone uses the same delicious account it becomes a pain to pull up your account every time you get on desk or are helping a patron. I think It would be cool to have a collected delicious account at each branch that we always keep pulled up on the computer just like people do with the catalogue.

Playing, but nothing cool

With these image generators I find that they are some of those things on the Internet that are full of cheap thrills and chills for a few minutes and after you've done it what good is it. The only advantage to sites like these is it provides a fun easy way for people new to the Internet to play with it and learn. I personally feel that I get a lot more long lasting enjoyment out of more sophisticated programs like Photoshop where you can manipulate to a much higher degree and have way more freedom. I really tried to find some fun things, but ultimately I got frustrated trying to get the image generators to do what I wanted them to do. I found it a real annoyance to mess with the prescription and have to fight with it just to have the writing go on were it should. You had to click your mouse in just the right spot for it to work! Internet is full of cheap thrills, but it like so many things today are just junk.