Week 6: #13 Tagging

I looked at Del.icio.us and thought it looked interesting. I liked the different ways the list of tags can be displayed. I didn't see a lot of comments associated with the tags but maybe I just picked the wrong ones to click on. The tutorial video made it clear how people can use it in their research. I will probably set up an account with some topics I'm interested in just to see what kind of new things I can find.

Week 5: #12 Library Elf

I looked at Library Elf, but I decided not to sign up. I get email reminders from HCPL and that works well for me. I'm glad to know about this for the patrons, though.

Week 5: #11 A Thing About Library Thing

I found Library Thing easy and fun to use. I had heard about it and wanted to try it, but never took the time. I put in titles I enjoy that have to do with spirituality, creativity or poetry and was delighted to see so many others out there who have put the same books in their libraries. I am having trouble getting the link of my library into my blog, however. I will give it one more try, and then go in search of assistance....

Week 5: #10 Playing Around with Image Generators

This is me as an Avatar in my twenties, on a hike.
This was made in Meez: http://www.meez.com/home.dm

I had to fumble with this one. I could make my Avatar fine, but getting it to my blog took awhile, and I had to ask for help. The computer kept giving me an error message which, it turned out, wasn't anything I was doing wrong but something with our setup here. After hitting the button over and over, it finally went through. Yea!

Week 4: #8, Part II

In reading another iHCPL blog, I realized I had missed part of the exercise in #8 of week 4: adding the feed of a few participants' blogs from iHCPL. I just added three, through Bloglines.

Week 4: #9 Finding Feeds

With intensive research, I determined that Technorati wins hands-down over the other 3 finding tools. The intensive research involved searching for the word 'kayak' on the 4 finding feeds tools. Technorati produced the most entertaining posts, so it is therefore the best tool. I also did a search in Bloglines on 'kayak' and it produced the second most useful results. Syndic8 was next. Feedster brought up so much as to be a little silly and Topix wasn't really pertinent for what I was looking for (blogs by kayakers). But all of them were easy to use and I'm glad to know about them.


As a side note totally unrelated to this exercise: it takes me about 5 tries to get the font to change to Arial from Times when I try to post a blog. The only way I can get it to switch is to click on the Times font, then switch it to Arial quickly while the computer is distracted.

Not a big annoyance, just strange....

Week 4: # 8 RSS

I signed up with Bloglines with no problem. I picked 10 feeds from the commonly picked list of feeds. From the Yahoo news feed I learned about two cases that the Supreme Court refused to hear; one of the cases involved a public library. A useful tool to help keep up with the news as well as fun stuff. This seems too easy to deserve bling, but maybe next week will be doubly-difficult, so I'll just be thankful.