Blinking

I am reading an interesting book, Blink: the power of thinking without thinking. The book is about what happens during the first two seconds of looking at something. It makes me wonder what happens during the first two seconds someone looks at a web page. Could it be that if people like what they see, they will think that the page or site is more authoritative than it really is (the book refers to this as the "Warren Harding" effect (i.e., voting for a handsome but hapless president).

Joomla in Libraries

A friend of mine and I were discussing the use of Web 2.0 tools in state government. She mentioned an open source content management system that sounded wonderful -- Joomla. I visited the Joomla website, but wanted to see if any libraries were using Joomla. So I did a Google search and found Joomla in Libraries. On that site, I found a list of libraries using Joomla, including at least on State Library and a National Libraries. Time to spend time on the Joomla in Libraries page to find out more!