Social Bookmarking II: The Network

Hi Readers, I was just bouncing around my RSS and found that Keith put his delicious bookmarks on the WIKI page for LBED. This inspired me to do the same. But then a most amazing thing occured to me. I could add Keith to my network! So I did. I now can look at Keiths bookmarks whenever I choose! If anyone wants to find my social bookmarks then you could look at the WIKI, or follow this link.http://delicious.com/bills4mgh

I am currently working on a research paper. I have not yet committed to a topic but am considering:

1) The World Trade Center cleanup, its long term health effects, and how disaster cleanup could be better handled in the future.

2) The benefits of a well designed respiratory protection program.

Being a painter with the IUPAT since the late 90's I use respirators daily. I often see workers wearing dustmasks that offer no protection against the particles they are trying to protect against, or not being clean shaven enough for their respirators to work. Enough preaching for one day. I hope you check out and enjoy some of my bookmarks.

My Social Bookmarking Experience

Hello Readers. It's been a hot week here in Chicago. I haven't had the energy to do any blogging, but I did take a look at social bookmarking. I was impressed. After reading about it I decided to check out http://delicious.com/, and it was good. I have been using bookmarks for ages. I have always found them to be useful, but in order to keep them in line I had to edit and erase them periodically to keep track of what was what. Folders and rambling names that made no sense a year later. That was before I found out about tagging. Imagine that someday we will have a system to keep track of all these bookmarks, and categorize them in searchable way that makes them accessible to us, and even others, years down the line. Well someday seems to have been around since at least 2004!
I am currently in the process of writing my senior block paper for my BA in Labor Safety and Health at NLC. I have just found the single greatest too for organizing my research. Does it get any better than this? Yes? You mean I can check other peoples tags too? Wow. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x66lV7GOcNU

At this point in time I would officially like to thank Rob Morris of the National Labor College for giving me this gift.

Hi Readers, I hope you spend the time towatch some of the videos. The Canadian government takes it's public service announcements seriously, and they did a great job with their safety related commercials. If you want to find others just look up WSIB on the Utube. The videos are brutal, but they get the message across. They ae a good tool for getting a conversation on safety started.

Hi Readers. Now that I've had some time to play around with this blog, and visit some others, I am starting to see how valuable of a collaborative tool it could be. At first I was a little skeptical seeing as I couldn't easily access my followers blogs. But with a little footwork, or more properly fingerwork, I was able to track them down. After doing that, as a follower I recieve updates on what has happened on the other blogs without searching each of them. I can see how this would be more efficient than a wiki. Unfortunately I was unable to shamelessly plug my blog with a hyperlink in a comment on someone else's blog. Of course that is probably a good thing. Well I'm back to trying to get you readers a slideshow, so have a nice day!
-Mike

Hello readers,
This is my first time developing a blog ao I hope it's not too rough. It seemed pretty simple, though I'm still trying to get a slideshow going on Picasa. I now have a picture and some background info for you. That was the best picture I could get that didn't have kids climbing on my head, but thats the price we pay for loving our kids, right? I'm still working on some content so hopefully this blog will get more entertaining as time goes on.

-Mike

Hi, and welcome to my blog! My name is Michael Hartnett, and I have been a painter and member of the IUPAT (http://www.iupat.org/) since 1998. During the time I have spent in the trades I have found safety to be the most important issue we face. Every morning workers kiss their families good bye expecting to see them at the end of the day, and sometimes they never return. Some of them could have lived if they had only thought to follow simple safety procedures.