Places that I have visited

I didn't realize how many states I have been too. I don't travel very much. I probably have been to California more than anywhere else, but it is fun to see that I have traveled other places.





Here is a map of the Countries that I have visited. A whopping 1%. I hope to someday visit more places.

Generators

I played around with the different links for the different kinds of generators. The Cooltext was fun. I played around with this site for quite awhile, but I couldn't figure out how to put it on my blog and there was not any help information on the websites. There are some fun text generators. I went into google and typed in image generators and came up with a site that had may different image and text generator links. I tried doing an Avatar, but couldn't get it to work and I am not sure I was doing it right in the first place. The ImageGenerator link was a bad link, so I am not sure what that one was like. My favorite of the generators was Blog Generator. There were different image generators that you could do and when I found one I like it was easy to do and I was able to put it on my blog, it is the chocolate bar on the side. There are many other generators on this site that I want to play with and will play with when I have the time. Blog Generator was the easiest to understand and do, at least for me. I can see how addicting some of this stuff can be if I had more time to do them.

More on the subject of RSS feeds

I did a little bit of searching in Topix and Syndic8 and found Topix to be easier for me to use for searching RSS feeds. But my favorite and easiest of all is Google Reader. I found more fun and interesting feeds searching through Google Reader. I didn't really find any feeds that were unusable, but there are some that are unusual. But those sometimes are the fun ones. RSS feeds can be very addicting. Have fun.

RSS Feeds

I didn't even know about RSS feeds until Staff Development Day when we learned about the Library 2.0 program. It has been fun learning about RSS feeds. I had fun looking at the different websites with RSS Feeds. I picked several and grouped them in my Google Reader under different folders. It was easy and as I played around in the Google reader I was able to manage my RSS feeds, delete any that I decided I didn't want. It's amazing the how technology today makes it easier to read up on all the breaking news in one place without having to find the websites or the fun and games websites out in the web that you can put in one place. I like the Librarians internet index. Being able to see what sites that other librarians have indexed to help with reference service. Be very careful, RSS feeds are very addicting. Don't have too much fun, you won't get anything else done. You will be too busy looking at all the feeds that you have selected.

Joys of Flickr

I have had a fun time with Flickr. I have uploaded some of my own photos. I checked out some of the 3rd party and mashups of flickr. The Fd Toys was a fun one. I created a calendar and sent it to my email. It was pretty easy to do. I checked some of the other mashups also. Fd Toys is a fun mashup, it gives a variety of things that you can do, calendar, trading card. I checked out some other librarians trading cards. Some of them were good.

Austria Trip

Austria Trip
Originally uploaded by bearyfun

This is a photo that I took when I went to Austria with my Choir, the Choral Arts Society of Utah Master Choral. We were on a tour of Old Town Salzburg Austria. This was looking out over Salzburg. It was a nice day, sunny and warm. This is my first photo that I uploaded onto Flickr. It is actually not very hard. Flickr is fun. I enjoy the other libraries flickr photos. I am also a member of the our library flickr account. My choir also has a flickr account showing photos of our concerts. I like flickr.

Library Things

I have joined LibraryThings. It is very easy to do and I enjoyed cataloging my favorite books. I think it will be a good way for me to keep track of the books that I have read. I am not very good in remembering the titles of books or the authors. This way I can keep track. The only thing that took me longer and was a little bit harder was linking LibraryThing on my blog where I wanted it, but by playing around and doing a little bit of searching, I finally figured it out. This is fun.

Tagging and Technorati

Tagging is interesting. It was fun to look at the different tags used on delicious. I also looked at some of the other Social Bookmarking sights and I like the delicious sight better. I find it could be a useful tool for the library for research. To be able to find bookmarks that were bookmarked on other computers in other departments. It could be very useful for Readers advisory too for the library. For my own personal bookmarking and searching on the internet I do at home and I am not interested in putting my personal bookmarks out there on the internet for others. I was a little confused with Technorati. The video tour of Technorati was not very useful to me. Some of the things it showed on the video is not an option on the website. I finally figured out how to search blog posts and tags and the blog directory by clicking on the Advanced button. This is something that I am not very interested in doing.

MySpace

Here are my thoughts on the MySpace page. It wasn't too hard to set up a MySpace page, but once I set it up I had to play around to get some understanding of how MySpace works. I successfully joined the libraries MySpace page. I played around with adding music to my MySpace page and while doing so found other MySpace pages I didn't realize had one. There are many other aspects to the MySpace page that I still don't know how to work with or understand yet, but I hopefully will figure it out as I continue to play in MySpace and find other friends in the Social Networking world. I also found on the MySpace page how to go in and watch TV shows, like House. It is fun and a new experience for me.

MySpace

Ok, I have read all about MySpace and I support the library on this endeavor into the social networking world. I have enjoyed looking at some of the other libraries MySpaces. I have looked at ours and like what I see. It will be a good way for Teens and other patrons to know what is going on in the library, events, book clubs, etc. I am now going to make my way into the social networking world and set up a MySpace account. It will be an interesting experience of which I am willing to try.

Wikis

Here is my blog about Wikis. I think they are really cool. I really liked the Booklovers wiki. Reading reviews on books that were read by patrons. I think that it would be very useful for the library to have a wiki with pathfinders to booklists and other subject areas, and for patrons to have the ability to post a review of a book on the wiki. I also liked the Bull Run Library's wiki. I liked St. Joseph County's wiki. I use Wikipedia all the time when I am playing the games on my computer at home. I can usually find the answer that I need on Wikipedia. I think is a fun, useful tool to have for the Library. I better stop there. I am not very good in writing. I am excited to go on and learn other technologies on this Library 2.0.