Dog Friends

As you can see in the photo at right, Blackie and Rufus have been joined by a friend. His name is Tom, and he found them by browsing MySpace. The three dogs are off on a water adventure, but they will be checking on their OurSpace page again soon. If you'd like to be their friend, here's the link to view their profiles:

http://www.myspace.com/175410448

Please join us in virtual play by visiting our page! Let's go fetch! Let's swim in a swamp! Let's eat roadkill together!

We made an OurSpace page! Yeah for us!

Sorry, but the dogs are, shall we say, *dog tired* after trying for several days to establish a MySpace networking base. Setting up the profile wasn't hard, but it took three people to explain to them how to choose and apply a layout. Oh, but they are very pleased with that layout -- it's done in shades of tennis-ball green and yellow!

This networking thing seems like a lot of work, considering that Blackie and Rufus were happy just waiting for friends to drop by whenever they took a notion to visit. One more URL, one more password, one more computery thing to maintain... Blackie isn't very interested in continuing this part of the 27 Things, and Rufus doesn't have the patience to sit at a keyboard.

Hey -- this lady looks like she could use a break. Do you think she'd like to pet me for a while? Maybe go out in the back yard and toss a few spherical objects? We hope she's not too busy maintaining her network.

Networking for the Network

The dogs have been mulling over the possibilities of MySpace for the library. Prior to reading about libraries and MySpace, all Rufus had considered was that this might be another way to find someone to play fetch with him. But if they made their own MySpace page, with the right sorts of identification or marketing, there's the potential that they might meet other interesting library-minded canines. The virtual play-yard just got enormous! Now that's something to bark about!