I just Signed up to be an "Early Reviewer" on Library Thing. I thought, "Woopee, free books! if it's free, it's for me!" After I read the FAQ's and the rules, I went happily to the list of books up for grabs. All of the selections were closed out. I guess I'll have to check more often . I do like "Library Thing" very much. It's an easy way to search for and make lists of books I've enjoyed for future reader's advisory . Here's my link:
www.librarything.com/catalog/zobe66
FYI
I deleted Playlist. It was cool listening to The Indiana Jones theme song while blogging, but I began to feel a little suspicious after all I've been hearing in the news about people getting fined for downloading music.Yikes! Web 2.0 is fun, but it does come with A LOT of responsibility.
For a sobering look at the dangers of public posting, take a gander at the P1 story in The Sun-Sentinel (Sun 06/01/08). The reporters generated a list of public school teachers in PB and Broward counties who have accounts with Facebook. Incredibly, a number of these folks have posted lots of questionable material .To top it off these role-models either didn't know how to, or didn't care to, mark their account PRIVATE. So all of this stuff is available to their students, administrators and whomever else. The story says some of these people could lose their jobs for violating teacher-conduct rules. Paranoia strikes deep my friends . It's a feeling we should all pay attention to.
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Yeah, it really is amazing what people choose to make public on these sorts of sites. Whenever I've used something like myspace or facebook, I've made sure to make the account viewable only to my friends.
I don't think you had anything to worry about with Playlist, though. That's a case where you're not downloading the songs directly onto your computer. It looks like Playlist provides the songs, so if anyone got in trouble, it'd be them. And they probably went to the trouble of getting permission/paying royalties for use of those songs.
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