Skype Has “NOW” Entered the Library Blogosphere?! Who Cares? Not Me.
January 7th, 2005Meredith Farkas blogs:
“Has anyone else just noticed that Skype has been mentioned a whole bunch over the past few days? I’ve now heard about it from Steven Cohen, Library Web Chic, Dave’s Blog, and Tame the Web. However, I’ve been hearing about it for many, many months now as my husband uses it to talk with his programmers (who are living in Spain and Vancouver right now). When he first started using it, he thought it was the best thing since sliced bread and couldn’t stop extolling its virtues. I thought it was great too, but when I saw it only entering the library blogosphere now, I thought hmmm… maybe my husband is ahead of the technology curve. Maybe he could be helpful in pointing people to cool technologies before they become “mainstream”.”
This whole Skype experience has been fun for me. Today, I Skyped with Michael Stephens, David King (Hey David, bring your guitar to CIL - I’m begging ya), and Will Richardson (well, we tried to - I think I had computer issues).
That said, this isn’t the first time that I had heard of Skype. I think Jenny mentioned it to me early last year at some point (I’m not sure where I first learned about it). I’m just wondering why it matters if librarians hear about new techie devices before or after others do. The point is that we do hear about them and share them with our colleagues. That is what collaboration is all about and is one of the main reasons why I publish Library Stuff and read weblogs. To share and to be shared with. It’s not about being first. It’s about what you do with the information once you have it. Be the librarian. Share.