Thing #12

I created a Rollyo for St. Mary's County News. At first, I felt like this was a waste of my time. I've been putting off this "Thing" for a while. I just had no interest in doing it. But, I finally did! I can see how something like this would be useful on the library's website. I'm sure there are other sites we could have a custom made search engine for, but I thought St. Mary's News would be helpful to our customers.

Thing 11 - Library Thing

I can see how Library Thing could be addictive for book lovers especially librarians, however it's not for me. I just don't have the time to catalog all my books!

I love how some libraries are incorporating Library Thing into their catalogs. It allows people to see tags attached to the books they love. You can then click on the tag to find similar books. Tagging is a great thing. I wish our catalog had this feature.

Thing #10

It was fun creating my avatar, but....my computer kept locking up. I used www.meez.com.

Thing 9

Merlin - Merlin is a great site for the MD learning community. I love the learning links.

Feedster - reminds me of google. A big blank screen with a search box. If you don't know what to search for your in trouble. Half the time I fit into this category. I'd rather have some links to jump off from.

Topix - Not sure what this is about. It seems to give you headlines in your community. Just as easy to go to somd.com

Syndic8 - I didn't even bother with this one. If I don't like the site design, I don't waste my time.

Technorati - LOVED IT! I love the tag cloud. Loved that it has videos & music right there on the home page. I found a crazy Harry Potter video by using one of the tags in the Tag Cloud. I love seeing what other people are looking for.

Thing 8 - RSS

Well, I don't know about it being Really Simple. For me the hardest part was finding a blog of interest to me to subscribe to. I wanted to find a unique blog, but I ended up with the usual ones.

I did manage to add a blogroll to my personal blog. Basically, this is a listing of all the blogs I subscribed to. See to the right.

Here is the URL to my blogline account:
http://www.bloglines.com/public/mabowman

I like that I'm able to see everything I'm interested in on one page, however I think I prefer going to the actual website. You might be missing something really interesting by not going to the actual website.

We already use this technology in our library on our Staff Intranet, so really it's nothing new to me.

Good exercise, now I'm ready to move on!

New York Times Article on Librarians

See we ARE cool!

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/08/fashion/08librarian.html?ex=1200974400&en=8cb7403e5f48a28c&ei=5087&excamp=mktat5

Thing 7 - Technology Today

On cnn.com there are several good articles today abour technology. Here is the link to this section of CNN.

http://www.cnn.com/TECH/

One of the articles today 8/3/04 is on Microchips in humans. Scary! Is this our future? I hope not. It seems like a good idea when you think about Alzheimer's patients, but then where do we stop with it? Interesting article - here's the link.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/08/01/chips.humans.ap/index.html

Another article talks about Cab drivers threatening to strike because they don't want GPS installed in their cabs. Personally, I think they should have GPS and be tracked. It will probably save us a lot of money. I often feel like the driver is taking me all over the city to get 4 blocks. But, then I can understand why they feel it is an invasion of privacy.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/08/01/gps.taxi.strike.ap/index.html

What next???