Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Chit Chat

Thing 10

I haven't had much luck yet with Google chat, but I will give it another try. I have had a nice chat with Kam via Meebo, and last weekend I joined a chat I found online where some nice fellow was giving a play-by-play report of the 4A state football final (our local team won, and I knew patrons would probably ask about it at work). Interspersed with the report were comments and questions about the game, the players, and the statistics. It was a fabulous way to get up-to-the-minute news.

I have also used chat for my schoolwork at TWU. I worked on a group project with 4 other women, and we discussed all manner of things in our chats. I found it very helpful to come prepared with comments pre-typed in Notepad, because if you have a lot to say, typing can slow things down and the conversation can get out-of-sync.

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Delicious blogs

Thing 9

One of my favorite ways to find library-related blogs and sites is on delicious.com. If you search for librarian, a lot of blogs that people have tagged "librarian" are retrieved. Not only can you look at the blogs and add them to your feeds (or to your own delicious page), you can also click on the number to the right of each of the blogs to see who has tagged that blog. For example, if I search for librarian on delicious, one site that comes up is librarian.net. Next to it (today) is the number 1364, indicating that 1364 people have bookmarked that site on their delicious page. If I click on that number, I can see all the people who have bookmarked this site. There is a good possibility that all those people are librarians, and I can now access the delicious page of any one of those librarians to see what websites they think are cool. I have added a number of feeds to my reader this way. I have also added sites to my delicious page this way.

Friday, December 5, 2008

Feed me!

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I usually track my RSS feeds within Internet Explorer, which confines my looking to own computer. Google Reader allows you to check your feeds from any computer, but I do not like the way it works, mixing all the feeds together, instead of allowing you to view one at a time. Also, it is a pain in the neck to delete feeds. I like the search feature, though, and I added a few feeds to my reader. Among them are:

librarian. net I love Jessamyn West. She is passionate and sensible all at once.

Swiss Army Librarian Brian Herzog does a great reference question of the week.

Merriam-Webster Word of the Day Just to keep the mind nimble!

I have added a feed for the word of the day at right....

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Makin' pics

Thing 7

Pollock











Candy hearts
I had a play on so many generators - birthday cakes, cups of coffee, chalkboards, and brainabetizers. I especially enjoyed creating my own Jackson Pollock drip painting (left click changes colors, resting the mouse creates big splotches), and my wee little candy heart.

Flickr Flickr Flickr















Makin' a
rainbow...
with
Colr Pickr