AANB

The AANB is giving me a headache. I can't handle all of the info. on Technorati right now. I need to explore it with fresh eyes tomorrow.

smrf_ette

My computer is moving slower than molasses today. Delic.iou.s seems good if I have alot of websites to save. My bookmarks always get so unruly because I do not make folders. I have not tried it on multiple computers, yet. I was disappointed that smrf (which is my initials for those of you who have not caught on) was already taken. Now, I am smrf_ette. Still cute.

Technorati has way too much going on. It is Friday and time to go home so I will talk more about this later.

Chiclet

I thought that chiclet was a kind of gum, but I added one to my website. Now you can access our virtual new bookshelf on Library Thing. I never would have been able to figure that out without doing these other exercises. Thanks Katherine!

Truthfully, though, I do still feel like I am stumbling in the dark sometimes, but I have more confidence now to at least try. I can succeed. Now, I have to work on the next 5 exercises. I am so far behind.

Finally...something I know

LibraryThing. I find that it works slower than I think it should. But, I like it and we are already using it. We did get a request to be some guys friend that I am not sure we should accept.

At Computers and Libraries, they were showing off the next step. Overlaying your LibraryThing on your OPAC. It looked neat, but I don't think that it would be right for this institution. Some people are confused enough by the OPAC. We don't want to scare them away. Oh, and I got a LibraryThing T-shirt.

Widget

I love the weather widget! Ok. So, I skipped ahead a few bc widgets sounded fun. I am getting a little tired of checking my Bloglines. It is just like checking my email. Now, if I could be alerted when there was a new post that would be nice. Back to widgets. I want to find more.

Bloglines continued several weeks later

I managed to get Bloglines set up. Setting up the RRS was not hard with that Sub Bloglines tool, but I am having trouble linking it to my blog. I found the HTML that I need to insert into my template but I don't know where. It kept giving me an error message and I finally gave up. It also said that I needed to have a standard template, which I thought that I had. I don't want to give up my fun dots background. I think that the RSS is good to have for prof. dev. and keeping up with legislative issues affecting libraires. I have the District Dispatch on my Bloglines. I just think that I will have to really stay on top of checking it.

Bloglines

I am getting a little frustrated that I have to download everything... My computer is so ancient.

I set up a bloglines account. I think that this will be great for professional development and keeping up on what is going on in the field. I selected a couple of blogs, but the site said it could not locate any at the moment and to try back. How do you find more interest specific blogs? I am going to look through my Web 2.0 notes and see if the instructor made any suggestions. The jury is still out on the ease of using Bloglines. More later...