Things 11 & 12

Winding my way down through the list of 23 Things, I have just completed Things 11 & 12- Library Thing and Rollyo.

Library Thing- For this assignment we were asked to catalog a collection of books. This was a great opportunity for me, as I have been looking for a Web 2.0 option for listing all of the books our library book discussion group- The River Bend Readers- has read over the years. I started out with the list for 2008-2009. It was easy and fun. The finished product looks like a lot more work than it was. I really like the product and the options it provides for readers. I plan on updating this catalog, adding past group titles as time allows. My list is called publib http://www.librarything.com/home/publib. I would like to rename the list, but the site says that the function is " out of order". I'll have to look in to this.

Rollyo- The Rollyo list is also called Refthoughts and it is a collection of Reference Sites- some of my personal favorites and some I use that are also included on the ALA RUSA Best Free Websites list. The Rollyo list was easy to compile and can be found her on by blog under My Blog List to the right. Have a look.

Reflection

As I continue to post to this blog, I realize how far I have progressed in the last month. Prior to this exercise, I had participated in a variety of blogs, but had never constructed my own. Rudimentary though it may be, I am getting more comfortable with the process in each post. As Homer Simpson might say, "Oh, technology, is there nothing you can't do?" Except, he was talking about donuts.

Things 8 & 9- Rss Feeds

I set up my Bloglines Account. I chose to enter mostly news, political, library, music and book review feeds- my primary areas of interest. I think this will come in most handy! I have all the sites I visit most frequently and all in one place.

For the rest of this assignment, I reviewed a few other RSS Feeds. As a political junkie, I am partial to newsfeeds. Two newsfeeds I reviewed as part of this assignment were Technorati http://www.technorati.com/ & Topix http://www.topix.net/ .

Of the two, I preferred the layout of Technorati. Visually, Technorati appears less cluttered than Topix. Technorati's design provides tab selection of categories such as Politics, Business, etc. contributing to a more streamlined appearance. The Blog tab directs the user to a fairly extensive Blog Directory, which is divided among other categories, as well. Blogger Central directs the user to the "What's Percolating in Blogs Now" feature, which includes subcategories: Blogosphere 2008, Top 100 Blogs, Watchlists, among others. Technorati won the SXSW 2006 awards for Best Technical Achievement and also Best of Show.[2] It was also nominated for a 2006 Webby award for Best Practices, but lost to Flickr and Google Maps.[3]

Technorati is a newsfeed I plan on revisiting and using.

Thing 10: Image Generator

This was the first time I have used an Image Generator, which probably makes me sound supremely uncool! It was fairly straightforward. After figuring out how to copy the image to my blog, the next most challenging part was determining what type of image and what to say? A very brief moment in thought reminded me that it is Monday and I am already soooo ready for a vacation or just one full weekend off from work and classes. So, welcome to my daydream of a weekend off in Vermont! For anyone interested I used Jellymuffin.com @ http://www.jellymuffin.com/generators/textpix2/

Myspace Picture Generator