Library Thing (16)

Time for true confessions. I do not read a lot. Even though I own a tremendous amount of books and think I will read them, I don't. So, I'm not sure how much I will actually use LibraryThing even though I think it is a neat application. I thought the tags for the banned book were interesting. Many of the tags really did not fit the book except perhaps on a personal level for someone. Auggh! Where is the authority control?! :) Actually, I'm not against tags, but I can see how they might prove ineffective in searching at times.

Technorati (thang 15)

First of all, I really liked the screencasts video that was presented. We should be using this technology for library tutorials.

On to Technorati... I am not a heavy blog reader. I occasionally read blogs in my subject area, but not very often. As a result, I don't think this technology is for me. When I clicked on the link of popular blogs, most of them were about technology. Seems to me that the technologically inclined are using technolgy to talk to each other about technology. The rest of us just go pull weeds in our yards. :)

Del.icio.us

I checked out Del.icio.us, and this is a site that I can definately use! My propensity for collecting websites is beginning to get out of control, and the computer at the ref desk keeps getting switched out which means my bookmarks keep getting deleted. I need a site that I can go to regardless of where I'm helping students to find (actually, to remember) potentially useful websites. I plan to sign up for this one and get started using it soon.

Flicker Mashups

I'm waayyyy behind in this program. I made a mashup. It looks like the dog is getting a cat swat. I'm sure my real cat would enjoy this cat fantasy photo. Here it is:

Flickr: image checkout & mashups

Checked out and signed up for flickr account. It is hard to figure out how to do some stuff in flickr. Looking at other people's photos is easy, however. There were a lot of cool canoe photos. I also played with some of the mashups. I did a poor job of guessing tags in the one game.

Flickr is a cool site. I like being able to see all the photos, but I'm really leary to have my photographs become public. I did invite a friend to my site and commented on a photo.

Digg

Signed up for it and checked it out. It was okay for a news feed. :)

LibWorm

In an effort to avoid setting up yet another account, I just subscribed to the libworms feeds through my Bloglines account. It was easy enough. I really procrastinated on this portion cause I just can't get that excited about news feeds. sigh!