Author: Jaf

Law, libraries, books, crafts, and general geekery.

Clicking ‘ignore’


I find myself spending less and less time on Facebook recently, and most of that time is spent looking at notifications, and clicking on ‘ignore’, because I don’t want to join the Oregon Trail, or allow my friends to buy and sell me.. . A large part of the problem is applications that insist you invite friends (generally at least 20) before you can see your results / scores / what other people have said about you. If I add one of those applications, and it demands I invite my friends to play too, I just exit, and uninstall it. I like my friends too much to bombard them with invites every time I decide to while away some time playing a quiz!

It seems even Facebook themselves have finally realised that the amount of invites / notifications to play whatever game your friends are playing at the time is statring to get ridiculous. I noticed today that this information has appeared in my News Feed:

Too many requests?

We’ve added a “clear all” option for when you have more than 25 requests waiting on your Requests page.

Yay – Now in one fell swoop I can get rid of the zombie requests, pirate requests, the pokes, the super pokes…

You know, I think I may be becoming the least social social networker possible! Or maybe just the one that feels it’s not really essential to know minute-by-minute what games my friends play?

Google Librarian Central

Link from Library Stuff

I have to confess to removing GLC from my Bloglines subscriptions late last year. Not only was it not being updated, but it went through a phase of having all its old entries appearing as new entries, repeatedly, and this went on for days. In the end, I got so irritated with it I removed it.

It did seem very odd that it stopped, with a promise of a return after the Summer, and no update posts since, even if just to say that they might have decided against continuing the blog. I found it often had useful tips, even for non public / school librarians, which it seems to be mainly aimed at.

Hopefully they really do like librarians, and will be back at some point…but if it’s in the Spring, just in time to warm up for the American library conferences, I have to admit, I’ll be giving in to my lurking cynicism!

Will they or won’t they?

Build the wind farm, that is? “Insiders” claim the Scottish Government is going to turn down the proposal to build one of Europes largest wind farms in the Western Isles.

As the official decision’s not actually due for another two or three weeks, the SG seem to be a bit irritated by all the speculation, and have issued a very terse press release, basically telling everyone to calm down.

Why did I just get Michael Winners voice in my head there…”calm down, it’s a commercial”….
Yuck.