Rollyo

I must say I don't see much use for Rollyo. I know how to do a general search with google, yahoo, etc. and know if the results are legitimate. I do, however, see why someone might want to limit their results to a few trusted sites in order to save time and energy looking at the results. I guess I don't believe in the less is more concept. I can also see why someone would use it to search sites specific to a topic. I just don't have a topic with very specific sites that would make it worthwhile to use. I did create a Maryland News search since local news is the one thing I do look at quite often. It can be found here.

Library Thing

This has been my favorite thing so far. Several people have told me about Library Thing, but I had never actually looked at it. It's great. I like the suggestion list when I click on the titles I have added. I like the fact that I can add random books from my library to my blog. I like everything about it. I may have to go home and catalog all of the books on my shelves now(I'm a geek).

You can see the random books from my library to the right or go to my library.

#10 - Meez

This was fun and easy to do, but I can't think of a reason to ever use it. I guess if I spent more time online I might find a use for it.

Thing 9 - Merlin, etc.

I have actually used technorati fairly regularly before I got here, so I came in with a bias towards it. I still think it is the easiest of the one's listed to use to find blogs. I also like google's blogsearch. As far as finding news feeds, I once again, have to say google is the best. I have several google reader feeds set up now and look at is regularly. This includes the 23 things blogs of several coworkers. I have to admit that I did not spend too much time on Merlin. I will have to go back and make sure I didn't miss anything. I did not like feedster at all.

Thing 8 - RSS

I already have some experience with RSS after the training here at Miller. I was using News Gator for the feeds until I discovered Google Reader. Google Reader is very easy to use and in the last 5 minutes I have been able to subscribe to several of the Howard County participants 23 things blogs along with Boing Boing and the Shifted Librarian. I heard about Boing Boing at MLA so I decided to subscribe to see why they are linked more than most major news outlets. So far I see nothing exciting but I will read them for a while to see what they are about.

Thing 7 - TIVO post

I have recently moved from watching live TV and/or using videotape to record shows to being a TIVO household. I've been wanting to do this for a while and finally got a good enough deal from DirectTV to do it. I love it. No more worrying about remembering to set up the VCR or discovering the tape with the latest episode of House on it has gone bad. I don't have to spend hours looking at Nick or Disney's schedule trying to determine when the next new episode of Hannah Montana or Drake and Josh is on so the kids won't miss it. I just set up to record all first run episodes and we watch them whenever we want. I'm especially looking forward to the ability to pause the Ravens game or the UK basketball game when the phone rings so I won't miss a big play. And best of all: no commercials! I know I am late to the party with the DVR, but I am still excited to have it. Next on the agenda is HDTV.

Thing 6

I played around on mappr a bit today. I actually found a photo that was listed as taken in my tiny hometown of Beaver Dam, KY. Of course, the actual Flickr site only said Beaver Dam, so it's possible that it was taken in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. I considered making a movie poster or trading card, but I had writer's block on the descritpion/taglines so I didn't do it. I did use the same site to Warholize myself. The image is above. These sites would be a lot more fun if I had more personal digital photos. My digital camera is not very good so I am still a film guy until I upgrade. I will be back to these sites once I convince my wife to buy a new digital camera.

Thing 5 Flickr

This image is from my friend Cindi. We worked together as undergraduates at King Library of University of Kentucky. We both went on to get an MLS. This photo is from ALA and is also in her blog at alreadygone.blogspot.com where she talks about Web 2.0.













Photo posted by truecolorsfly:

PAR-TIC-I-PA-TION, or 37 pieces of library flair (also a 365days shot)

Thing 2 blog.

Ah, the power point on lifelong learning. Very hard to try to use the sound when you are in jail. It's very loud here even when alone in the library. I was happy to see 7.5 was play. I think the problem we have as a society is the loss of the value of play. Kids are asked to grow up too fast, play sports to win and not have fun, etc. We act the same way as adults in our jobs and then wonder why we are so stressed. It's very hard to learn(or want to learn) when you are stressed or burned out. My suggestion for anyone doing this is to have fun with it. Don't go through the process just to finish it. Make your blog fun. Find fun pictures on Flickr and funny youtube videos to share. The more fun you have with it the more likely you will go back to the sites after the training is over.

First Post

Just started the 23 Things process. Hopefully, my blog will not be too boring. I will try to post more than just a boring notice that I finished the next step in the training.