Week 5 #12

Library Elf

Sign up was easy. This service is great for households with multiple card holders. Since I don't really monitor my e-mail notices from HCPL I think it will be of limited use to me. But, I might start a family someday.

Week 5 #11

Library Thing

OK, I actually am spending a lot of time learning about the :CueCat which is mentioned on Library thing as a way to scan usbn's directly into their system. Fascinating story about a company (digital convergence) that went belly up because of privacy concerns. The tech savvy market these devices were created for was far more savvy about privacy in the early 00's then the average CVS card user. If you are curious there is information about :cuecats in wikipedia and at http://cexx.org/cuecat.htm and at http://www.digitalconvergence.com/products/index.html and at
http://www.crq.com/ and, of course, at Library Thing.

But... I am actually supposed to talk about Library Thing. ;-)

So, here are the 5 books I added to my library in Library Thing:



Yeah, I kinda like John Steinbeck... People seem to love or hate his work. You know which camp I'm in now.

I may continue to use Library Thing for my personal library. I think I'm going to find it more useful, though, as a way to keep track of the books my book club at the branch covers.

Week 5 #10 part 3

Wow, I'm really feeling behind now. I'm glad we have until mid-December to complete everything. So, to finish this exercise, I looked at FDtoys but had difficulty figuring out how the site worked. Maybe I'll look at it again when I'm feeling more patient. I also looked at the comic generating site but the creative juices are trickling rather than flowing right now so I don't have anything to post. I will file it away to use in the future. I think it would be fun to create comics for family and friends for birthdays, etc.

Week 5 #10 part 2

Queen Bee? This avatar refers to an inside joke. I created her on Meez. I think I'm finally turning into an un-hip old lady... 'cause none of the outfits on Meez were conservative enough to suit my fashion sense. :0)

Week 5 #10 part 1.

Ok, Beth's High Toon actually made me chuckle out loud. Just my flavor of goofy humor.

I created a Yahoo avatar about 2 years ago and play around with her from time to time. I don't use Messenger as often as I used to... I just don't have time to sit at the computer and chat for hours on end.

I'll play with some of the other avatar tools but I'm pretty attached to the one I have.

Here she is in the rain with my cat's avatar. His name is Mr. Kitty. I got lucky, as this cat which is available in Yahoo's extras for avatars looks alot like the cat I actually have. :-)

Here's my avatar at work. And uh, hmm... Yahoo won't let me change the flip flops out on this outfit. ;-) This kitty is the closest I can find on Yahoo to my other cat (Calypso or Caly for short). She's a calico so imagine a little orange in her fur and you'll get the idea. And no, I don't bring her to work and let her roam the library freely!!!

Week 4 #9

OK, I'm subscribed to 18 feeds now. The button that I added to my favorites to help me add feeds to bloglines is awesome. It makes it so much easier. Now I'm just getting frustrated with sites that I want to keep up with that aren't offering feeds. I guess ya just can't make some people happy. :-)

I looked at the different feed searching tools... for right now, I think I'm doing better just adding sites I already know I want to keep up with. However, I did use the Bloglines feed searching tool to set up most of my political feeds so... For now I think I will only use a feed searching tool when there is a specific broad topic I want to gather more info on. (I'm not sure if that makes sense but there it is.) Otherwise, I'm going to suffer from information overload. There are too many possibilities out there for my little ADHD-addled brain to handle.

Ooops, I almost forgot to tell you that I added 3 ihcpl blogs to my feeds and I did set up folders to organize. Sample folder titles: Political, library humour, ihcpl blogs, etc.

Week 4 #8

Well, I worked on this stuff last week but I'm just now getting around to posting. I think I've been making this exercise harder than it really is. I've subscribed to 12 or so feeds in my bloglines account. At the moment, I'm not really saving time with this tool because I keep exploring the sites I've subscribed to! After awhile that should change. I've added feeds from both sides of the political spectrum (Far Right & Far Left) because I think that the truth is somewhere in the "moderate" middle and that excellent points are made by speakers on both sides of the debate. Plus, sometimes stuff is just so loony and "out there" it becomes quite entertaining. I've also added some purely for fun things like a daily horoscope and daily cartoons.

Week 3 #7

Wadda ya lookin' at Buddy?, originally uploaded by persephone-ihcpl.

Well, here's the last exercise for week 3. It's easier to tell the difference from the original photo when the image is larger. Interestingly, the original was blurrier than the altered photo. I used the textile special effect from pixer.us.

Week 3 #6

I'm back to my original opinion about Flickr... After looking at all the available tools I'm feeling overwhelmed. :-( That said, the tool that I find most interesting is Trippermap. One of our patrons does a lot and I mean a lot of traveling. I helped her create a powerpoint for a presentation she made at our branch about her trip to Morocco. I can't wait to show her this tool. It will be a lot of work, but she can post her favorite pics from all of her trips and create a map showing everywhere she's been. I also want to tell my good friends, who just completed a trip around the world on the QE II, about this tool.

Week 3 exercise #5

They don't make 'em like they used to..., originally uploaded by persephone-ihcpl.

They don't make 'em like they used to...