Thing 12.3 Do You Digg? StumbleUpon

For the Challenge I created an account in StumbleUpon and -- oops, gotta go
--- wabi sabi (had to take the 15 year-old to his performance thing)
Home again I downloaded a toolbar and then -- finally -- up came the glory of StumbleUpon and this is the first page it brought me! My heart was won. I took a breath and went on.
How about this one?
Now this StumbleUpon has amazing soothing and stimulating power. Yeah for Library 2.0 !

Thing 12.2 Do You Digg? Blog Prompts

I joined Digg and Mixx. And spent a couple of hours checking both out. The 23 Things instructions for this Thing suggests that libraries might be affected by this kind of social media site in the areas of reference questions and requests for further information. That doesn't ring true in my thinking. Just my opinion. These are browsing places. As for these type of site assisting us in "being in the know"? Again, I don't think so. This is all so broad, wide not deep. 23 Things asks "Do these tools seem to be a productivity enhancer or a productivity detractor?" I have a headache like I've been in the waiting room with a stack of magazines that had little content and less substance. For me. I'd love to hear something more positive about this Thing. Just my window -- let me know what I missed.

Thing 12 Do You Digg?

I remember this toy -- it was installed in the sand pit at several of the parks I went to when I had three little boys. It always looked like fun but in fact it was clumsier and less satisfying than it first appeared. You had to push and pull and manuever at the same time. I felt this way at the Digg site. I wondered what are these stories and headlines and what I am doing here when I didn't select them and I'm really not interested in just looking around? You know, like the stack of magazines at a waiting room? Pick, shuffle shuffle, put down, pick up another, flip, shuffle page shuffle page... It made more sense (not much more -- just personal opinion here -- when I went to Slate and browsed and got the connection that I could Digg something. Hmmmm. I am not sure what is the point. Yet. Remember the wabi-sabi unfinished thing? That's where I am now. Back to reading and clicking...