Data Hide and Seek.

‘Data Hide and Seek’.

More and more, I find myself walking into lectures excited to learn, knowing that on that day,  my mind will continue to be appropriately overwhelmed with the magical (yet pratical) content of the CityLIS course. I leave the lectures feeling like an information professional, with an understanding that I am still a novice, but with the knowledge that this course was designed to make information professionals what they are…awesomely informed and skilled in LIS…seems like an obvious concept, seeing that that is the common idea behind any course, it’s just that I didn’t fathom just how much was entailed within the subject matter; and I must say, I am pleasantly over the moon. Speaking of the moon, here’s a question..if you could bring one book to the moon what would it be? (And the natural follow up to that question) and why?

Let’s bake Google cookies and make a show of it.  So here’s the plan, listen intently, as I won’t be repeating myself..I’ll say that again..I won’t be repeating myself. (Clearly I mean what I say) Let’s gather all the information needed for the pilot, and present it to interested parties, we’ll call it ‘The Great Google Bake off’..I mean Take off..I mean Takeover..That’s it, The Great Google Takeover…nothing to do with cookies then..oh, but wait, cookies, yes those cookies..the data type..not the baker type. So it’s settled, my forever (as far as the foreseeable future is concerned) search engine (as it has always been…for the most part) is Google…at least for now (Again, clearly I mean what I say).

After all, that’s what we do, we Google information. (As he makes it sound like the end of a different sentence)

‘Googling is a part of everyday life. This reminds me of a story, please forgive me in advance as I know the accuracy won’t be 100%, but I’m going for more of a punchline effect rather than a beginning, middle and an ending, after all, there’s way too much information out there as it is. (Or can there be such a thing as too much information..hmmm?)

The story is about two companies, Fedex and UPS…and it can pretty much be summed up in this sentence “One can Fedex another a UPS package.” The gist of the story is that the company Fedex became so popular; it is now used as a verb. This prompted me to write the following short skit:

Two friends are in a library (having a fantastic time because Libraries rock like sedimentary , get it? Because Libraries are deep, and filled with information, secrets, wonder and history, like the ocean, and the rocks that are found there..) doing research together:

Friend 1- I want to see if this book is available to buy online.

Friend 2- Why not Google it?

Friend 1- I’d rather use Bing.

Friend 2-Ok, great. Google it on Bing and let me know what you find out.

                           The End.

This skit was to showcase that ‘Google’ is also used as a verb.

I say, can’t we all share the love of information i.e. Yahduckgoobing.

Yahduckgoobing (v): The act of searching and  sharing information online.

DITA has prompted me to question where I get information from, the value I place on the information based upon the search engine used, the criteria that should be used for trusted information and what our preference of search engines are based on.

When in doubt, think Yahduckgoobing, I doubt it will catch on, but stranger things have happened.