Metablogging, By Way of Introduction

It has taken me far too long to a) set up a real blog and b)think of a name for this blog that no one else was using.

First, about real blogs: I mean that they are different from online journals, in which one might write about his or her thoughts and feelings and use this as a way to keep up with friends. A blog, to attempt in paraphrasing Will Richardson, author of Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms, involves responding and linking to other content and making connections between things. In typing just the above, I have four or five tabs open in my browser, and two links. I would say that means I'm off to a decent start. Real blogs, I would say, are online-written entities that can be a part of an information professional's career, that can be shared with the entire readership of the Internet (provided they decide to care), and would make sense to someone who does not personally know the author.

So now that I've told you that you don't need to know me, I will, paradoxically, tell you about myself. At least, what bit you probably ought to know. I will be graduating with a Master's degree in Library Science this January, and looking for a job as a professional librarian in either a school or public library. Right now, between work as a Circulation Assistant, sometime Reference Assistant and all-purpose substitute in a public library in Western Massachusetts and my coursework, which includes practical School Librarian experience at least one day a week and a long drive on another day of the week, I consume media.

By which I mean, I read books, magazines, comics, blogs and websites, and watch movies and television whenever I can. I'm not picky about format, if it's a story (especially fiction and especially weird in some way, but again, I'm not picky), I probably want to consume it. People ask me how I manage to do these things when I have work and homework to do. I tell them this: It's compulsive, I can't stop.

I also spend a lot of time thinking about all of these things that I read and watch, discussing them with others, and thinking about the implications of information in our over-saturated society. So, I thought I would put all of that to some potentially constructive use and share.